Pantheon East Asian traditions
Nine sons of the dragon
龙生九子 zh 竜生九子 ja 용생구자 ko
9 Chinese dragons, who are sons of the Dragon King
- Members 6 on record
The members
Everyone it counts
A pantheon is not a fixed roster — membership is what the records say.
What this means
6 records name this as the whole they are part of. That is what makes it a pantheon here — no class on Wikidata says so consistently, and nobody publishes a machine-readable roster.
So the list is complete in one direction only: a god whose record does not name this pantheon is missing even if every account places them in it — a gap in the data, not in the tradition. Accounts disagree about who belongs, too; the Twelve Olympians are twelve in some lists and fourteen in others.
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BixiOne of the 9 sons of the Dragon -
ChiMythical creature, sometimes considered as one of the 9 sons of the dragon -
ChiwenThe sculptures on both ends of the roof are in the shape of dragon heads and fish bodies. -
PulaoOne of the 9 sons of the dragon -
Bi'anOne of the 9 sons of the dragon - JiaotuMythical creature, sometimes considered as one of the 9 sons of the dragon
Overview
From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.
Connections
How Nine sons of the dragon connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Affiliation 1
What this means
Association with a tradition or school. Traditions branch, overlap and re-merge; this is not a clean single-origin tree.
Does not imply a fixed roster · that every account of the tradition knows this figure
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
1 statement on this record
- 1 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
Three layers, three licences
- Text
- Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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