The Chinese dragon is not like the European dragons that snatch princesses and hide in dark caves in far away mountains. Chinese Dragon is a happy, cheerful dragon full of life that appears everywhere in broad daylight to bring happiness and fortune. The Chinese dragon is the guardian of rain, rivers and lakes which are all symbol of life.
If you want to draw a Chinese dragon this is how you could do it: Draw a body of a snake, and the head of a horse. the body is of should have scales like some snake or fish. Draw some beard like a goat's beard for your dragon. Then draw a couple of antlers like a deer. Now for the final touch, draw a pair of hands and give it the claws of an eagle. If you want to color it, use a lot of colors because the Chinese Dragons are very colorful.

You may ask if such a creature lives in China or not. It does exist like unicorns or mermaids. In people's imagination. Some people say that they have reasons to believe that unicorns did exist at one time and they are now extinct, like many other animals that do not exist anymor. Nobody has come up with some believable story of finding the remains of a Chinese Dragon. The stories about Dragons are somewhat older than stories of mermaids and unicorns. One explanation of how the dragon came to be is as follows. Early societies had as their tribal mascot an animal - for example a horse or a camel or a fish. This is in fact something which we observe even today with the American eagle, the Persian lion or the Russian bear. These symbols were used both for religious as well as military purposes, and rather as the Romans would march with the Eagle as their standard, these emblems were used as military insignia.
The theory goes that as a tribe went to battle and conquered another, it would incorporate some form of the conquered tribe's ensignia. In this way it is beleived the Xia clan, who had a snake as its emblem annexed states such as the Shang - an eagle. Thus, to the snake's body was added the claws of the eagle. Soon the scales of fish, antlers of the deer, face of the horse and the beard of the goat all came to be incorporated, and thereby the Chinese dragon came into being. So powerful did the emblem of the dragon become that it was adopted by every Chinese dynasty as the Imperial emblem, from Huang Di to the Qing (Manchu) Dynasty without exception. As early as the Tang and Song dynasties Dragon King Temple's were built where the people could pray for blessings and a good harvest - all in the hands of the dragons as they controlled the rain. Thanks in large to Chinatown Online. For more stories about China, click on Chinese Dragon.