Possessing the ability to ascend to heaven or burrow into the earth and combining the spirit and most exalted postures of numerous beasts, it has for several thousand years symbolized emperors, who, like dragons, cannot be denied respect. But these characteristics ascribed to the dragon that are associated with the powerful and noble were not his by birthright.
如此登天遁地、總集百獸之靈的崇高姿態，數千年來一直被用來輝映帝王天子凜不可侵的尊榮。但這種權貴獨享的專利並不是龍自始即具有的。