Dragons are on many Ancient Chinese buildings and they are many different colours such as red,yellow,blue and black. The most favourite is the yellow dragon and that's why every Chinese Emperors robes have yellow dragons on it. One of the reason there were many dragons on buildings was because they were said to bless and influence peoples lives. Emperors were even said to be close descendants of dragons and the Emperors bed is called "dragon bed", he has special robes that are called "dragon robes", his throne is called "dragon seat" and even calling the Emperor "dragon face" is a compliment to him. One Emperor called Fu Shi was described as having a dragons tail and his successor apparently had a dragon as his father. There are many Chinese celebrations with dragons such as the dragon dance, dragon boats and Chinese New Year. There is the year of the Dragon and every time its year of the dragon it represents a different type of Dragon. Here's a list since 1904: 1904 was Wood Dragon, 1916 was Fire Dragon, 1928 was Earth Dragon, 1940 was Metal Dragon, 1952 was Water Dragon, 1964 was Wood Dragon, 1976 was Fire Dragon, 1988 was Earth Dragon, 2000 was Metal Dragon and 2012 was Water Dragon. Also Dragons are male but Phoenixes are females so the Emperors wife was thought as a Phoenix.