The Air Nomad Critic wrote:
Some, but not as much as you might think. The Japanese variant, for instance, has a different number of toes than the mainland Chinese counterpart. Many times the scales will differ between variants, ranging from obsidian to electric blue to gold, but not much else, or at least nothing on the scale of some of the other types of dragons.
Of course, there is a life cycle that is said Chinese dragons or lungs undergo over 3000 years. First, they spend a millennium as a gemlike egg, from which they spring as a tiny water snake-like juvenile. After 500 years it develops the head of a carp, and is called a kiao. Over another millennium it gains a carps scales and the characteristic features we associate with a Chinese dragon, and is known as a kiao-lung or simply lung. However, its ears are non functional at this point (lung means deaf), as it takes another 500 years to grow the apparatus it hears through: its horns. Once the horns are grown, it is known as a kioh-lung. After another millennium, it grows a series of branching wings, a rare sight indeed, and is known as a ying-lung, a fully developed Chinese dragon.
Well, as I've posted before, Chinese dragons actually have a sort of metamorphosis.