dragon: Quick Facts

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Relief detail of a white dragon with gold accents on blue and green glazed tiles from the Nine Dragon Wall in Beihai Park, Beijing.

Chinese New Year: Lantern Festival

Qing dynasty: silk dragon robe

Performers in orange costumes carry a large, brightly colored dragon puppet during a Lunar New Year parade, with a cheering crowd in the grandstand behind them.

Ming dynasty flask

“St. George and the Dragon,” marble relief by Michel Colombe, 1508–09; in the Louvre, Paris

Demotte Shāh-nāmeh: Bahrām Gūr killing a dragon

The video thumbnail image shows a frame of binoculars focused on a Komodo dragon in the wild.

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