The typical image of a dragon is two forked horns, a long beard, a snake body, four legs and scales all over the body. It can also be said that it is a horse face, a dog's nose, a cow's mouth, antlers, a snake body, eagle claws, fish scales, a lion's tail and shrimp whiskers. The prototype of the dragon is the beautiful Wayaolong in the new loong fossil, which has two horns but is not a deity.

The image of the dragon is integrated. Guo Ruoxu, a person from Song Dynasty, put forward the theory that dragons have nine similarities, namely, the horns are like deer, the head is like camel (horse), the eyes are like rabbit (turtle), the neck is like snake, the abdomen is like a stork, the scales are like fish, the claws are like eagle, the palms are like tiger and the ears are like ox. In fact, there are far more than these nine kinds of dragons. Crocodiles, lizards, pigs, horses, bears, giant salamanders, elephants, dogs, sheep, silkworms, birds, clouds, lightning, rainbows, tornadoes, ancient animal fossils, etc. all participated in the integration of dragons to varying degrees.