It is easy to understand that eating carp was prohibited in the Tang Dynasty.

The founder of the Tang Dynasty was Emperor Gaozu Li Yuan. The emperor's surname was Li, so Li was the country's surname.

The word "carp" for carp has the same pronunciation as the national surname Li, so the Tang Dynasty had regulations that prohibited people from eating carp. If a carp was caught, it had to be released, otherwise it would be punished.

Carp has been a delicacy on the table for a long time. In the Tang Dynasty, it was blessed by the country's surname Li and became a protected animal. It was considered a blessing.

It is said that "one person can achieve enlightenment, a chicken or a dog can ascend to heaven", so the carp also took advantage of Lao Li's family, and was even given a domineering name "Red Sturgeon".

The Tang Dynasty respected carp to the extreme. In the past, military talismans were called "tiger talismans", but in the Tang Dynasty, the military talismans became fish talismans.

Fish have become a symbol of dispatching troops and generals, which can be regarded as a glorious ancestor in the fish world.

In ancient dynasties, the names of emperors and their elders were relatively taboo, and people or things with the same pronunciation would be given another name.

This is a kind of respect for the emperor and a symbol of the emperor's unique rights.

The scene in "Water Margin" in which Wu Song fights a tiger is very exciting, and the tiger is called "Big Chong" in the book.

In fact, tigers have been called big insects since the Tang Dynasty. The grandfather of Emperor Taizong Li Shimin was named Li Hu, so the vocabulary for tiger cannot be said.

If there is a name involving tiger, either remove the word tiger or change it to another name.

In history, in addition to the taboo on the emperor's name, there was also the taboo on the country's name. The most famous and influential one was the Literary Prison during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty.

The Literary Prison during the Qianlong period covered a wide range of areas and involved many people, and many people were imprisoned for it.

Especially for some people whose poems had national titles such as "Qing" and "Ming", all of them were arrested and imprisoned once reported.