双语视频·文物奇遇记｜真假亢金龙

In Journey to the West, she is the benefactor who rescues Wukong from his predicament.

In Black Myth: Wukong, she becomes one of the antagonists, blocking the destined one’s path.

As summer transitions into autumn, countless tourists flock to Shanxi, seeking to uncover the mysterious duality of Kang Jinlong—both righteous and malevolent.

The Twenty-Eight Mansions are the crystallization of ancient Chinese astronomical wisdom.

To accurately track the movements of the sun, moon, and five visible planets, ancient scholars meticulously divided the sky into twenty-eight regions and paired each with an animal, further linking each with one of the seven celestial bodies—sun, moon, and the five planets—resulting in the names of these mansions.

Kang Jinlong, whose star name is "Kang," belongs to the metal element and is symbolized by the dragon.

It is part of the Azure Dragon in the East and represents the second mansion in this constellation.

As the dragon’s neck, it embodies the essence of the celestial dragon.

Inside Yuhuang Temple in Zezhou, Jincheng, the Yuan dynasty’s vibrant sculptures of the Twenty-Eight Mansions come to life.

Among them, the image of Kang Jinlong is strikingly different from popular imagination—it is the only figure of an enraged goddess among the nine female deities.

Her hair flies upward in fiery clusters, her phoenix-like eyes sharply angled as she glares fiercely.

A coiled dragon rests beneath her right arm, its head facing in the same direction as its mistress’s angry gaze.

This entire sculpture radiates power, showcasing not only the ancient artists' superb craftsmanship but also their boundless creativity and the romanticism of these celestial beings.