The Dragon Kings of the Five Emperors are a group of five directional dragon kings described in Taoist textual tradition. A Daoist reference identifies them as 五帝龍王 / 五帝龙王 (wǔ dì lóng wáng). The received Taishang Dongyuan Shenzhou Jing lists five members associated with east, south, west, north and center, using color-imperial titles. This page […]