... The "dragon" refers to a piebald horse, with its bridle woven from black and white leather. Legend tells t…
... The "dragon" refers to a piebald horse, with its bridle woven from black and white leather. Legend tells that a man named Bao Lichang was sentenced to penal labor farming the lands of Dunhuang. There, he found a divine horse, which he claimed emerged from the water, and presented it to Emperor Wu. At the time, Chief Minister Zhang Cang advocated the theory of the Five Virtues, positing that the Han dynasty corresponded to the Water Virtue, which reveres the color black. Since a "heavenly horse" came forth from the Wowa Spring, the emperor saw it as an auspicious omen, naming the mountain "Longle" (Dragon Bridle) and establishing the county of Longle there.