Dragon or Loong?

🫧 Open on Bubbles China’s 龙(龍) and the West’s dragon are not the same creature. They were pressed into a single word by an act of Bible translation. Robert Morrison, the first Protestant missionary to China, spent years on a complete Chinese Bible, finished in 1823. When he reached the Book of Revelation, he faced a small choice with a long shadow. Revelation 12:9 describes a great red dragon thrown down from heaven , “that ancient serpent, called the Devil and Satan.” In the literary Chinese that would car