Chi Lung Wang
Chi Lung Wang is the Chinese dragon king of the fire engines — the benevolent celestial patron propitiated for domestic water and working pumps when a house catches fire.
At a glance
- Tradition
- Chinese mythology
- Region
- China (place of origin)
- Trait family
- The Water-Beckoners
- Symbols
- Dragon
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Symbols
Judged against the description by a model. Meanings are our own paraphrase.
- Dragon is image-domain The dragon denotes chaotic instinctual power, guardian of hoarded treasure and fertility, destructive in the West and, in China, the beneficent waterlike way of things.
why
Chi Lung Wang is the Chinese dragon king of the fire engines — the benevolent celestial patron propitiated for domestic water and working pumps when a house catches fire.
Traits
Read from the figure's description, which a model wrote. Open "why" for the sentence a trait came from.
Defensive powers
- Water guardianship
why
He is a specialization of the dragon-king religion: under the dominion of Lung Wang, the great dragon from whom the earth's waters come, Chi Lung Wang holds the narrower portfolio of the water households use — the water in wells, buckets, and pipes that a household can actually reach when it needs it.
Roles
Judged from the works' own entries, not from the description. Carries: the figure holds the role. Meets: the role is in its stories, held by something it meets.
- Water meets
3 citations
- Carol Rose, Giants, Monsters, and Dragons, s.v. "Chi Lung Wang."
- Carol Rose, Spirits, Fairies, Leprechauns, and Goblins, s.v. "Chi Lung Wang."
- Theresa Bane, Encyclopedia of Beasts and Monsters in Myth, Legend and Folklore, s.v. "Chi Lung Wang."