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The Dragon Terrestrial and the Dragon Celestial: Part II. Ch'ên, the Dragon Celestial
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 March 2011
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The formula “Ch'ên is of the Dragon kind”, 
, ch'ên shu lung, applies to one of the 
, or Twelve Affinities, according to which each of the Cycle of Twelve Branches has an affinity to one of Twelve Animals. When this Cycle of Twelve Beasts was first known to the Chinese may be uncertain, but pure chance can hardly be responsible for the association in the list of ch'ên with 
lung, which must, at least, be the expression of a long tradition of affinity. That “Ch'ên is of the Dragon kind”, then, is the text on which this paper is based, and the implications of which are further developed.
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page 93 note 1 See JRAS. for October, 1917, Pl. I, Figs. 1 to 4, and pp. 774–5.
page 93 note 2 See JRAS. for July, 1926, Pl. VI, Figs. 1 and 2, and pp. 464–5. And note in the archaic forms of 
k'ou, brigand, that though the left-hand element is usually written 
yüan, instances exist where a round or roundish shape takes the place of the two lines. See the Chün Ku Lu Chin Wên, ninth and last vol., pp. 47–8, and the Ku Chou P'ien, citing the same examples, ch. 60, pp. 33–4.
page 93 note 3 See e.g., Jung Kêng's 
Chin Wên Pien, 2, p. 11.
page 94 note 1 The Six Scripts, p. 1, rendering 
page 96 note 1 See JRAS., October, 1931, p. 802.
page 97 note 1 See that work, pp. 153 and 138. I omit the Greek letters.