Huang Longyan

**Huang Longyan** is a member of the Global Dragons Squad.

## Appearance

In her human form, Longyan is a beautiful and attractive young woman with long red hair and yellow eyes who normally wears a red and yellow Cheongsam decorated with a golden eastern dragon and a Taoist yin-yang symbol in the middle. Her measurements in human form are B93-W60-H90cm, height is 162cm

In her Dragon form, Longyan is a red Eastern Dragon.

## History

Longyan is a Chinese Dragon born in China during the Qing dynasty, abandoned by her birth parents as a child, she was adopted by Huang Qiying, a famous martial artist and physician in Guangzhou who taught her Hung Ga and traditional Chinese medicine, she also developed a close bond with Qiying's son Feihung. After Qiying's death, Longyan assisted her foster older brother Feihong as a medical assistant and martial arts instructor in Guangzhou. After Feihong himself passed away from illness in 1925, Longyan while mourning the loss of her foster brother, spent twelve years travelling around China, seeking solace in visiting various scenic spots and Taoist meditation. During her journey, she had picked up many new skills and knowledge, she also became acquainted with the famed artist, Qi Baishi who inspired her interest in painting and calligraphy. In 1937, she settled down in the Wudang Mountains, joining the Zhengyi school of Taoism in the Wudang Mountains as a disciple to learn and master Taoist mysticism, just two months before the Second Sino-Japanese war began. After the Second World War, Longyan frequently travelled to Hong Kong, Taiwan and Japan in her spare time. She also became prominent spiritual leader and teacher of Zhengyi Taoism based in the Wudang mountains, training countless Taoist disciples in Wudang Kung Fu and Taoist mysticism, among them Guan Aisha, Guan Meiya and Liu Tao Xiang

## Power and Abilities

**Immense Strength**

Immense Speed

**Fire Breath**: As a dragon, Longyan is capable of breathing a powerful fire breath.

**Master Hand to Hand Combatant**: Longyan is a grandmaster of Chinese martial arts, having mastered Hung Ga which she had learned from her foster father Huang Qiying, being on pair with her foster elder brother Huang Feihong a reowned Hung Gar master in terms of skills. She is also a master of Wudang Kung Fu, having taught and trained Guan Aisha, Guan Meiya and Liu Tao Xiang.

**Master Swordswoman**: Longyan is an immensely skilled master swordswoman who specialized in Wudang swordsmanship. Longyan also invented a personal sword style name Chiyou Priestess Sword Dance

* **Chiyou Priestess Sword Dance** (蚩尤巫剣舞): Longyan's personal swordsmanship style derived from combining Wudang swordsmanship and ancient Chinese ritual dancing which Longyan further refined into a lethal sword style which also incorporate the use of Qigong breathing techniques to enhanced physical strength and speed with Ki augmentation

**Master Magician**:Longyan is a veteran master of Taoist magic with immense knowledge and experience.

* Terracotta Soldier Creation: By using Taoist magic talismans, Longyan created three meter tall terracotta soldiers with great offensive and defensive power, wielding swords made of stone which are powerful enough to clash with metal weapons.

**Senjutsu Master**: Through her mastery of Taoist Qigong, Longyan is a extremely skilled and powerful master of Senjutsu with immense knowledge and understanding of ki.

* **Touki**
* **Chi Healing**

**Shapeshifting**:Longyan can shapeshift her dragon form to her human form.

Flight:

**Genius Intellect**:Longyan has an extremely high level of intelligence even for a Dragon.

* **Master Tactician:** Longyan is a brilliant strategist and tactician, her strategic skills are
	+ **Go Master:** Longyan is one of the greatest masters of Go.

* **Master Scholar**: Longyan is an excellent sinologist, specializing in Chinese literature, history, art, philosophy, archaeology, Taoism and epigraphy.
	+ **Literary Master:** A master scholar of Chinese literature, Longyan had received a traditional Chinese education in the Chinese classics and literature in a Shuyuan academy during her childhood. In her spare time, she also extensively studied countless Chinese literary works such as poetry or prose, from Pre-Qin literature to modern literature.
	+ **Master Philosopher:** In her childhood, Longyan had studied Confucianism, after her foster brother's death, Longyan abandoned Confucianism to study Taoism for the next several decades, thus Longyan is extremely knowledgable and well versed in Taoist philosophy.
	+ **Expert Linguist:** In addition to her native Chinese, Longyan also self-taught herself how to read English and Japanese. From her in-depth study of Chinese archaeology and epigraphy, Longyan can also read and deciphered oracle bone script and Chinese bronze inscriptions.

**Master Artist**:Longyan is a talented master artist in Chinese painting and calligraphy.

* **Master Painter:** Longyan is an extremely skilled and talented master guohua painter who refered to Qing Dynasty paintings particularly the works of Shi Tao, Kun Can, Yun Shouping, Wang Hui, Jin Nong, Zheng Xie, Gao Jianfu and Wu Changshuo to develop her own painting style. Stemming from her love of nature, Huang Longyan specialized in painting bamboos and flowers such as orchids, osmanthuses, peonies, chrysanthemums and plum blossoms as well as mountains, forests and rivers.
* **Master Calligrapher:** Longyan is also a great master calligrapher with deep knowledge and understanding of Chinese calligraphy, specializing in the Stele school and Qing Dynasty calligraphy. She developed her calligraphy techniques by refering to Fu Shan, Deng Shiru, Zheng Fu, Yang Shoujing and Wu Changshuo. She also studied hanbei steles and weibei steles to improve her calligraphy technique. Longyan is noted for her superlative skill in the small seal script, clerical script, regular script and semi-cursive script.

**Master Physician**:Longyan is a master of traditional Chinese medicine which she had learned from her foster father Qiying, and further honed her medical knowledge and skills by assisting her foster brother Feihung in his clinic as his medical assistant. Continuing to improve her medical skills after Feihung's death, Longyan possess the highest mastery in acupuncture, moxibustion, Chinese herbology and medical Daoyin exercises. After becoming a Taoist priestess in the Wudang mountains, Longyan also learn and mastered esoteric medical practices of Taoism including the healing applications of Taoist alchemy and Senjutsu. Longyan also studied and integrated Western medicine into her TCM medical skills to admistered more efficient treatment on her patients.

**Master Musician:** Longyan learnt to play Taoist music when she became a Taoist priestess in the Wudang mountains, with many decades of practise and performing experience, she became a master musician specializing in the guqin and dizi. She is also proficient with the guzheng, tanggu, sheng and pipa to play guoyue music for recreation.

**Master Chef:** Longyan is an extremely skilled and versatile master chef of Chinese cuisine, having learned from her foster mother Pu Li-E, and further honed through more than a century of practise and experience in cooking. In addition to Guangzhou cuisine which she already mastered when she lived with the Huang family, Longyan also learned numerous recipes of other Chinese regional cuisines during her twelve year journey throughout China and continued to do culinary research on Chinese cuisine during her spare time, becoming an all-rounder master in the Eight Traditions of Chinese cuisine with first-class culinary skills and experience, able to make more elaborate delicacies which normally required professional cooking skills. Her repertoire also includes Henan cuisine, Beijing cuisine, Shanghai cuisine, Hong Kong cuisine and Taiwanese cuisine. She also taught Tao Xiang a majority of her skills and knowledge in cooking. Her culinary specialties are Cantonese cuisine, Fujian cuisine, Jiangsu cuisine and Sichuan cuisine.

* **Cantonese Style Beef Brisket Lamian**: A popular lamian soup dish of Cantonese cuisine made using beef brisket.
* **Peking Duck:** Beijing's famous signature special roast duck home made by Longyan, during Longyan's twelve year journey around China, a retired ex-chef of Bianyifang whom Longyan had help in Beijing, taught her the recipe as a sign of gratitude. Longyan often prepare peking duck as a treat for her friends which her fellow members of the Global Dragon Squad deeply enjoyed due to its extraordinary deliciousness and special taste.
* Dim Sum: Longyan is extremely masterful and experienced in making dim sum, being one of the best dim sum chefs in China, she frequently make dim sum for her yum cha brunch and through trial and error, she succeeded in replicate specialized new and contemporary dim sum dishes including fusion based dim sum by famous dim sum restaurants.

**Master Brewer:** Being used to brewing Chinese herbal decoctions as a TCM physician, Longyan can apply her profound brewing skills to brew the finest Chinese tea by studying Lu Yu's Classic of Tea. She is also a master in brewing huangjiu, having learnt to brew Shaoxing wine when she was in Shaoxing during her past journey throughout China, which she continued to improve her wine brewing techniques in the Wudang mountains for decades, thus, Longyan could brewed extremely fragrant and delicious huangjiu in the Shaoxing tradition. Longyan frequently brew large amount of homemade huangjiu for personal consumption, cooking and as offerings to gods during Taoist rituals.

Expert Farmer: Longyan is an expert farmer, as she would help grow grains, fruits and vegetables in the Wudang mountain for her own consumption and Wudang Taoist priesthood

Expert Fisherwoman:

## Equipment

**Chiyou** (蚩尤, *Shiyuu*) An extremely powerful Spirit Sword, custom made by Ou Jiang the master dragon swordsmith of Longquan, further enchanted with various powerful Taoist magic and rituals by the Taoist masters of the Wudang Mountains. Named after the mythical tribal king of ancient China who is worshipped as a war god in Chinese mythology.

Mirrors of Crushing Evil: Five ancient mystical divine beast mirrors created by Taoists masters during the Eastern Han Dynasty by combining long lost ancient Taoist magic techniques and bronze casting. The Mirrors of Crushing Evils are mainly used for enhancing Taoist rituals and spells to dispel evil spirits and monsters. While individually powerful, their magic powers are exponentially magnified when all five are used together. The Mirrors of Crushing Evil were originally lost to history until Muramasa and a group of Taoists priests led by Longyan excavated it from a long forgotten underground grotto-heaven.

## Trivia

* Longyan's favourite cuisine is Chinese cuisine particularly Guangzhou cuisine, Beijing cuisine and Sichuan cuisine.
* Longyan's favourite food are;
	+ Beef noodle soup particularly Lanzhou beef noodles and Cantonese beef brisket noodles
	+ Yangzhou Fried Rice
	+ Crispy fried chicken
	+ Jiangnan hundred flower chicken
	+ Sanbeiji
	+ All kinds of dim sums particularly Da Bao, Steamed meatballs and Har gow
	+ Taibai duck
	+ Dandan noodles
	+ **Eel noodles**
	+ Cart noodle
	+ Wonton noodles
	+ Fragrant chicken chop
	+ Nian gao
	+ Egg tart
	+ Gongbao diced chicken
	+ Squirrel fish
	+ Hot pot particularly Instant-boiled mutton
	+ Stinky Tofu
	+ Double skin milk
	+ Black sesame paste
	+ Peking duck
	+ Roast goose
	+ Jianbing
	+ Buddha jump over the wall
	+ Carp with baked noodles
	+ Fried purple crispy pork
	+ Siu yuk served with rice
	+ Sweet and sour pork served with rice
* Longyan's favourite drinks are;
	+ Green tea
	+ Oolong tea
	+ Jasmine tea
	+ Hong Kong-style milk tea
	+ Huangjiu particularly Shaoxing wine
	+ Baijiu
	+ Wine
* Due to having once lived in Guangzhou since her childhood until Feihong's death, Longyan love Yum cha, traditional Cantonese brunch which she practised every morning after she finished her morning training in the Wudang mountains, eating at least five different types of dim sum and drinking green tea or oolong tea for breakfast every morning. Occasionally, she would fly to Guangzhou to have yum cha in famous dim sum restaurants before taking a stroll to pay a visit to the grave of her foster parents Qiying and Li-E and foster brother Feihong. Longyan also enjoyed having Yum cha in Hong Kong.
* Longyan love to drink Chinese tea and wine, she would drink green tea or oolong tea for breakfast, jasmine tea or Hong Kong style milk tea for lunch and huangjiu for dinner.
* While Longyan love to drink alcohol, she refrained from over drinking, she would drink only three bowls of huangjiu for dinner everyday. Occasionally, she would drink three bowls of baijiu or three glasses of wine for dinner.
* Longyan's given name by her human foster father means Dragon Swallow while her surname adopted from her human foster family means Yellow in Chinese.
* Longyan frequently visited Hong Kong, Taiwan and Japan for culinary tourism and sightseeing.
* Longyan's hobbies are reading, cooking, Chinese painting, Chinese calligraphy, playing Go, playing the guqin and dizi and travelling.
* Longyan also like to collect Yupei jade pendants.