Once, an old woman found five “dragon eggs” lying in the grass. When they split, this woman carried the little serpents to a river and let them go. For this service she was given the power to fortell future events. She became a sibyl - a priestess. The people called her “The Dragon Mother.” When she washed clothes at the river-side, the fish, who were subjects of the dragons, “used to dance before her”.

When the Chinese “Dragon Mother” died, she was buried on the eastern side of the river because she was originally a goddess and regarded as the “mother” of the sun-god of the east.... But apparently the dragons objected to the burial of the “Dragon Mother” on the eastern bank. The legend tells that they raised a violent storm, and transferred her grave to the western bank. Until the present age the belief obtains that there is always wind and rain near the “Dragon Mother’s Grave”. The people explain that the dragons love to “wash the grave”.