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Panlong (mythology)
''This article is about the mythical creature. For the district in Yunnan, please see Panlong District. For towns in Burma, please see Panglong.''
Panlong (; lit. "coiled dragon") is an aquatic dragon resembling a ''jiaolong'' 蛟龍 "river dragon; crocodile" in Chinese mythology, an ancient motif in Chinese art, and a proper name.
==Word==
The Chinese compound ''panlong'' combines ''pan'' 蟠 "coiling; curling; curving; bending; winding; twisting" and ''long'' 龍 or 龙 "dragon". ''Longpan'' 龍蟠 "dragon coiling", the reverse of ''panlong'', is a literary metaphor for "person of unrecognized talent" (see the ''Fayan'' below).
''Panlong'' "coiled dragon" can be written 蟠龍 or 盤龍, using ''pan'' 蟠's homophonous variant Chinese character ''pan'' 盤 or 盘 "tray; plate; dish". Another example of this graphic interchangeability is ''panrao'' 蟠繞 or 盤繞 "twine round; surround; fill". Two Classical Chinese ''panlong'' 盤龍 idioms are ''panlongpi'' 盤龍癖 ("coiling dragon habit") "gambling addiction" (alluding to 5th-century gambler Liu Yi 劉毅 or Liu Panlong 劉盤龍) and ''panlong-wohu'' 盤龍臥虎 (lit. "coiling dragon crouching tiger") "talented people remaining concealed". In Fengshui and Four Symbols theory, the Dragon and Tiger are symbolic opposites. Take for instance, ''longtan-huxue'' 龍潭虎穴 ("dragon's pond and tiger's cave") "dangerous places" or ''Wohu canglong'' 臥虎藏龍 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
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