SR - naming - comets -Reply

[Timothy A. McDaniel]

Jin Liu Ch'ang wrote:
> the English translation for the characters which are used for the 
> name of China is Middle Kingdom, which makes the use of dragons
> by the SCA Middle Kingdom very interesting.

Quite deliberate.  The original arms of the Middle Kingdom had a
CHinese dragon in annulo (in a ring with head and tail
at the top almost touching).  It was changed to a standard
standing Western dragon a few years later: turns
out almost nobody could manage to draw (paint, embroider,
or otherwise depict) a Chinese dragon in anything
close to a decent way.  Mostly the dragons ended up too skinny
and with belly up.  I think they still have one old-style
banner left.  I saw it and thought "yep, a sucky depiction".

Honorable Daniel
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