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Che-chiang Province, China - The dragon and the little blue boy

"Under the Emperor Ta Ti of the Wu dynasty (AD 228-251), in the seventh month of the third year of the Ch'ih-wu era, there was a certain Wang Shuh who gathered medicinal herbs on T'ien Tai Mountain. At the hottest time of the day he took a rest under a bridge, when suddenly he saw a little blue boy, over a foot long, in the brook. " The boy held a blue rush in his hand and rode on a red carp. The fish entered a cloud and disappeared little by little.

"After a good while Shuh climbed upon a high mountain top and looked to all four sides. He saw wind and clouds arising above the sea, and in a moment a thunderstorm broke forth. Suddenly it was about to reach Shuh, who, terrified, hid himself in a hollow tree. When the sky cleared up, he again saw the red carp on which the boy rode and the little boy returning and entering the brook. It was a black kiaol"

Source: Dr. M. W. De Visser, The Dragon in China and Japan (Amsterdam: Johannes Muller, 1913), 80-81. Visser quotes from "the Wuki” A Kiao is a "scaled dragon."