This paper focuses on the precedent studies of Chinese Long （龍） and those derivative legends and cultures about it, which spread all over East Asia and even have a global influence nowadays. There are already many researches talking about the origin of Long and its spread, or about those pictures of Long picked up from excavated articles. But of these studies there are still some methodological problems such as a misunderstood starting point of what we think the Long is today, and also the easy means of combining the pictures and the historical texts.This paper shall attempt to discover a new method to find out the originof the recognition of today’s Long and those derivative legends and cultures about it.研究ノー
