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Qinglong
Eastern skies and dragon wells
Danger Level: 7/10
By Elizabeth Stein for Mythos Atlas. About the author. Editorial notes are grounded in the site's cited sources and can be challenged through the contact page.
Abilities
Weather CommandDirectional GuardianshipWood Element
Lore & Legend
Azure Dragon of the East
Qinglong is one of the Four Symbols (Siling): east, spring, wood, the mansions of the Azure Dragon. The form is astronomical and directional before it is a novelistic dragon. Han tomb ceilings and the Huainanzi-style correlative cosmos fix the set with White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Black Tortoise.
It commands weather as a quadrant guardian, not as a village pest.
Primary Sources
“The Azure Dragon of the East is one of the Four Symbols, correlating with spring and wood on Han tomb ceilings and in correlative cosmology.”