Why do goldfish have special significance in Chinese culture?

The purpose of keeping goldfish in ancient times was mainly that goldfish could play the role of nourishing feelings and beautifying the environment, and then goldfish had the psychological role of pleasing to the mouth and trying to be lucky in the Chinese auspicious culture. In addition, with the goldfish to pursue the traditional feng shui "water", is also a very important reason. Buddhist culture also played a very important role in the birth of the goldfish.

1. Mouth color auspicious

Older generations of people have the custom of keeping pets, but also more concerned about the mouth. Goldfish is the harmonic "gold and jade", and "gold" and represents wealth, so the big families will be invited home after the palace goldfish, employing specialized fish handle care. Ordinary people keep ordinary varieties of goldfish, to discuss is "Yu" of the mouth, figure a "lucky", "year after year". Children buy a few small grass gold home to play, seeking a "year after year" omen.

2. Praying for good luck and good fortune

The goldfish is a harmonious and auspicious, but also has the reproductive characteristics of the birth of many children. Therefore, the ancients have used it as a symbol of love, to send the good wishes of many children and good fortune. In the New Year's paintings, paper cuttings, lanterns and other folk art is reflected, is a common folk culture of blessing.

For example, before the Spring Festival, folk have the habit of posting New Year's paintings to decorate the environment, set the mood, and express the blessings of the New Year celebration. The heirloom work of Tianjin Yangliuqing New Year's Paintings, Golden Jade Hall, was first painted during the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty. In the picture, the women are elegant, the children are innocent and lively, and the goldfish are naive. On the surface, the painting depicts a happy family life, but in fact, it has a profound meaning and contains two levels of prayers. Firstly, it takes the harmonic sound of the goldfish in the tank, and seeks the honor of "gold and jade", hoping that the coming year will be rich in wealth and prosperity. Secondly, the gold is "golden boy" and the jade is "jade girl".

Goldfish in China is also a symbol of honor. Tang Dynasty official rank in a special sign of honor, is to hang the goldfish bag, known as the "three products clothing purple decorated with goldfish bag". Tang poetry, there are "rhinoceros with goldfish bundle purple robe" of the poem.

3 water anti-mosquito

China's ancient buildings to the wooden structure of the majority, once the consequences of the fire is unimaginable. So keep goldfish is not only easy to enjoy, there is water storage fire, swallowing mosquitoes role.

Outdoors, trees, grass, etc. are very easy to breed mosquitoes. And they prefer to spawn and hatch in the water. If you don't keep fish in the tank used to store water for fire prevention, the water quality will deteriorate quickly. Moreover, mosquitoes breed in large numbers, residents will be unbearable. If you use other methods of mosquito control, not only laborious and difficult, the results are often unsatisfactory.

If the water tank put a few goldfish, not only can improve the ornamental value, but also improve the water environment, clean water, swallowing mosquitoes, in addition to pests and diseases play a positive role. Ancient people generally in the water capacity of 100 to 400 pounds of ceramic tank, put two inches of goldfish, do not need to feed any food will be able to eat all the breeding eggs, larvae.