More than a year of allusions:
Fish, like geese, can be synonymous with letters. The ancients wrote letters with silk and put them in the belly of fish to convey secret messages. In this way, fish communication is called "fish communication element". In the Tang and Song Dynasties, all the golden symbols worn by dignitaries were called "fish symbols" to show nobility and inferiority. "Fish" and "fish" are homophonic, so fish symbolizes wealth. "Like a duck to water" is used to describe the harmony, happiness and freedom of work and life.
A great man once said, "Man was changed from a fish." We can also find circumstantial evidence of mermaid's "distant relatives" from our history and folk customs. At the end of the year, China folk custom pays attention to fish supply, which is more than enough every year? The luck of fish is the totem worship of fish.
Extended data:
Every household in northern China will post a big fat boy with a smile and a picture of a big carp on his face during the Spring Festival. This kind of New Year pictures is called "more than one year". You know, this painting "More than One Year" is the representative work of Tianjin Yangliuqing and the representative work of Chinese New Year pictures. The New Year pictures of Yangliuqing in Tianjin are as famous as those of Taohuawu in Suzhou, Weifang in Shandong and Mianzhu in Sichuan, and it is one of the four major producing areas of New Year pictures in China.
The picture of "having more than one year" has profound implications. Simply put, taking the homonym of "fish" and "surplus" reflects the meaning of "getting better and better year by year". New Year pictures reflect the ancestors' admonition to the younger generation: we should maintain and carry forward the diligence, simplicity, frugality and frugality of the older generation, and warn us to have a plan for life, not to eat all of it, and to "have more than one year".