The symbolism of Toad Palace Folding Golden Laurel and Carp Leaping Dragon Door is as follows:

The symbolism of Toad Palace Folding Golden Laurel is: climbing and folding the laurel flower of the Moon Palace, which is a metaphor for getting the first place in the imperial examination and being on the top of the list.

Carp Leaping Dragon Gate means: Ancient legend has it that a carp in the Yellow River will change into a dragon when it jumps over the Dragon Gate. It is a metaphor for being successful in the imperial examination and being promoted to an official position. It is also a metaphor for advancing against the current and striving to be upward.

Chinese idiom story of "Carp Fish Leaping Dragon Gate":

Hearing that the scenery of the Dragon Gate was good, the carp living in the Yellow River set off from the Yellow River in Mengjin, Henan Province, passed through the Luo River, and then came to the place of splashing mouth of the Dragon Gate down the Yi River, but there was no waterway on the Dragon Gate Mountain, so they had to gather in the northern foothills of the Dragon Gate.

A big red carp proposed to jump over the Dragon Gate, but none of the fish traveling with it had the courage to do so, and the red carp volunteered to be the first to try it, and with all its strength it jumped into the half-heavenly clouds and drove the clouds and rain in the air forward.

A ball of fire came from behind and burned off its tail. It endured the pain and continued to leap forward, finally crossing Dragon Gate Mountain and landing in the lake south of the mountain, turning into a giant dragon in the blink of an eye. The other carp were uncertain, and no fish dared to try again.

Then a huge dragon came down from the sky and told them that he was the carp, and urged them to try bravely, but most of them were unsuccessful, and some of them could not jump over, and fell down from the air, and also got a black scar on their foreheads.

Li Bai, a great poet of the Tang Dynasty, wrote a poem dedicated to this matter: "Three feet of carp in the Yellow River, this is in the Mengjin residence, the point of the forehead does not become a dragon, return to accompany the ordinary fish." It means that the carp of the Yellow River originally lived in Mengjin, Henan Province, and because it did not leap over the dragon gate to become a dragon, it could only continue to live among the fish.

The allusion to the toad palace:

The article said that Zhou Mengsheng and his son Xueyan of Luling, Jiangxi Province, were both scholars and famous in the area. His home in the village of Ji Cement stone, there is a large laurel tree in the courtyard, branches and leaves flourish, the shade of the tree can cover two acres of ground. The end of the Yuan turmoil in the house was burned, the tree was burned to death, the branches were cut for firewood, leaving only the bare trunk.

In the early Ming Dynasty, the world was stabilized, and the old tree trunk issued new buds, and within a few years, it was lush and green again. Some people say that after the fire, the tree was scorched on the outside and withered on the inside, and now it is sprouting new shoots, which is not a good sign.

Some people say that the grass and trees are ignorant, but the first to get the wind. When Kou Zhun died of illness, people for the mourning of his inserted bamboo branches actually have bamboo shoots, Tian's brothers to make a separation, the family's thorn tree withered for no reason, the brothers and good not to share, the tree is back to glory, visible Zhou family will be revived. Not into, learn Yan's son Zhongfang passed the entrance examination, people think the tree again is auspicious.

The auspiciousness of this superstition, far-fetched interpretation of natural phenomena to social phenomena, there is nothing to be desired, but from the old tree glory, can also see the tenacity of the Gui vitality.