In Chinese mythology, Lei Jen Zu, was the son of Lei the thunderdragon. He was hatched on Earth from an egg found after a lighting-bolt struck the ground. The soldiers who found him gave him to their general Wen Wang. Wen Wang, who already had ninety-nine other children, had the child brought up by a Taoist hermit. Then Wen Wang was captured by his enemies, and the Thunder-dragon sent his son two apricots to eat. As soon as Lei Jen Zu spat out the stones, he changed from a human prince to a green-faced dragon with mirror eyes, boar' s tusks and an ant-eater's snout, and went to rescue Wang. Research Lei Jen Zu
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