You know, Chinese myth is sort of the opposite of Russian. Russian doesn't have much in the way of written tales until the arrival of the Orthodox church, so it's mish-mashy and skewed.

Chinese myth on the other hand, seems to suffer from a surfeit of written sources, which all contradict each other...

I've found references to dragons who were once human beings, once carp, and some who became constellations. Not coherent at all! Grrr...