The implication of carp crossing Longmen

Carp crossing the dragon gate means a successful career.

Apprentice:

Carp According to ancient legend in yue longmen, the Yellow River carp yue longmen (referring to the Longmen at the narrowest part of the Shanxi-Shaanxi Grand Canyon where the Yellow River roars down from Hukou, now called Yumenkou) will become a dragon.

"Ya Ya Shi Yu" wrote: "As the saying goes, a fish jumps over the Longmen, and after crossing the Longmen, it is a dragon. Only carp is possible." In the Qing Dynasty, Li Yuan wrote in "Creeping Things": "Every year, the yellow Ji Man goes to the upper reaches of Longmen, and the sky fire burns its tail from behind, then it turns into a dragon." Later, I used "carp yue longmen" as a metaphor for promotion, promotion and other things.

A successful career:

According to records, in the Tang Dynasty, the tiger symbol was changed to a fish symbol, and copper was cast in the shape of a carp as a symbol of military power and imperial power. In addition to the homonym of "carp" and the emperor's surname "Li", another reason is that carp means "the Lord of fish, which can transform gods and make Yuelongmen a dragon".

In China traditional culture and art, the patterns of "fish" and "water" are symbols of prosperity and harvest, and "fish" also has the meaning of auspiciousness and annual celebration. People use "yue longmen the Carp" to describe a successful career and a dream come true.

Legend of carp in Yuelongmen:

Carp yue longmen, also known as Carp yue longmen and Fish Leaping Dragon Gate, is an ancient folklore in China. According to legend, after the establishment of Yi Que in Yu, the current was swift, and carp swimming in the Yellow River (now a county in Luoyang) went upstream along Luoshui and Yi Shui.

When I swam to Longmen (now the site of Longmen Grottoes in Luoyang), the waves were as high as the sky, and I jumped one after another, trying to turn over. It is a dragon that can jump, but a black scar is left on the forehead that can't jump. Therefore, Li Bai, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty, wrote in the poem "To Cui": "The three-foot carp of the Yellow River, which lives in its original place, can't be regarded as a dragon, and it returns to every fish."

From then on, in the late spring, countless golden carp went upstream along the Yellow River, gathered in Yumen and struggled to jump. Those who occasionally jump over, they become black dragons and take off for nine days. The Yumen of Longteng is called Longmen, a Yuelongmen, which is worth a hundred times. Legend has it that the story of carp Yue Longmen is often represented by the head fish.