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Fishing every year.

The explanation of having fish every year is as follows:

Having fish every year means a rich life and extra wealth and food every year. Having fish every year is a homonym for more than a year, which can be described as one of the most representative languages of traditional auspicious wishes in China. If represented by pictures, it can be regarded as a traditional auspicious symbol. There must be lotus or lotus root, and there must be fish, that is, lotus has fish. Represents a rich life with extra wealth and food every year!

Fish and geese are mascots that can pass books in the minds of the ancients. The story of Longmen carp yue longmen is a household name. Lotus root and carp are very common in New Year pictures of China people. They are both favorite mascots of China people. In the Song Dynasty, the level of production capacity reached a considerable height, eating fish gradually became popular, and the blessing of fish became popular every year.

China has been an agricultural society since ancient times. Surplus means abundant food. With the continuous progress of the times and society, the meaning of surplus has gradually evolved into material richness and rich life. In the past, the greeting was "Have you eaten? It can be seen that it was not easy to eat enough in the past. In a word, surplus is the embodiment of good wishes.

Modern people are used to using "like a duck to water" to describe the harmony, happiness and freedom of work and life. "It is more than enough to say goodbye to the old year and add new year greetings", so auspicious Spring Festival couplets have been circulated among the people for hundreds of years.

The New Year, that is, the first day of the year, is a popular holiday in most countries in the world. Countries all over the world, especially in ancient times, have different dates. The calendar year of most countries in the modern world is 1. 1. Modern people call "New Year's Day" the Gregorian New Year and "Spring Festival" the Lunar New Year.

On that day, people will celebrate the arrival of the New Year in various ways. In ancient times, there was a fierce monster scattered in the mountains. People call them nian. Its appearance is ferocious, its nature is ferocious, and it specializes in eating birds, animals and insects. It changes its taste every day, from kowtowing insects to living people, which makes people talk about "Nian".

Later, people gradually mastered the activity law of Nian, which went to crowded places to taste fresh food every 365 days. The time of its appearance was after dark, when the rooster crowed at dawn, and it returned to the mountains.