Can a dragon be carved on the Caskets?

Nov 10, 2022

Several issues of the coffin of carving dragons and painting phoenixes were posted, and then some netizens commented that the old hundred classics could not use dragon and phoenix patterns, for fear of being photographed.

I have consulted a lot of information on this, and I have the following points

1: Before the Yuan Dynasty, all dragons were common. In the Yuan Dynasty, rulers began to monopolize dragons, forbidding ordinary people to wear clothing with dragon and phoenix patterns, and street shops were not allowed to weave and sell cloth with dragon and phoenix patterns, and violators were severely punished. However, due to the long popularity of dragon patterns, the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty could not completely ban the use of dragon ornaments by the people for a while.

2: However, in the Ming Dynasty, in order to ensure that his authority was not challenged, the emperor ruled autocratically over the dragon pattern, and since then the dragon pattern has been completely monopolized by the royal family.

3: That came to the Qing Dynasty, Qianlong's edict to Tang Ying, Zhu Ji: "The five-clawed dragon, often outside, still negotiates according to the original price." "Since then, the commoners of the Qing Dynasty can use ordinary five-clawed dragon porcelain.

4: Then there are countless dragon and phoenix patterns used in modern daily life, large and small coffins on the market, dragon and phoenix patterns on the golden altar, and coiled dragon pillars in front of the temple

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In fact, the dragon and phoenix are traditional auspicious patterns, just take the idiom, there are dragon heaven protectors crouching tiger, hidden dragon, dragon and phoenix chengxiang, dragon horse spirit, divine dragon see the head, etc. are all words of admiration.

Therefore, it is completely okay to carve dragons and phoenixes on the life materials, and there will be no official family to trouble you.