Chinese auspicious totem - two carps far away and a paper book. The ancients liked to use the homophonic word "yu" for the word "fish" to express their yearning for a better life. Since fish, "yu" and "jade" are homophonic, and "qing" and "吉" are homophonic, so

There are a large number of images of fish in Chinese folk paper-cuts, porcelain, purses, New Year pictures and other art works.

The pictures in "Continuous Years of Surplus" always have a cute fat doll holding a huge carp, and there are lotus flowers or lotus pods on the background.

One goldfish after another is connected in a circle, with a clear pond in the middle, which is the scene from "A House Full of Gold and Jade".

The scenes of "Sustaining Years of Prosperity" and "A House Full of Gold and Jade" express people's good wishes for a prosperous life and a full house of descendants.

In ancient times, some people put silk letters into the bellies of fish and sent them to people in distant places, so letters were also called "fish notes" or "fish notes".

When Chen Sheng and Wu Guang revolted, they hid the silk book with "King Chen Sheng" in the belly of the fish.

Later, people put letters between two fish-shaped bamboo slips and sent them, so the letters were also called "double carp".

Some people also put letters into fish-shaped wooden mailboxes for easy portability.

In a Yuefu poem, there is a line: "Chi Su is like residual snow, forming a pair of carps. To know what is in your heart, read the book in your belly." The "Chi Su" in it is a letter, and "fish passing on Chi Su" has also become synonymous with delivering letters.

"San Qin Ji" records the legend of "fish leaping over Longmen". Longmen is a ferry on the Yellow River, with cliffs on both sides. It is said that when Dayu was controlling floods, he dug Longmen between the mountains to allow the Yellow River to flow through.

Therefore, the water flow in Longmen is very fast and it is difficult for fish to swim through it. Every March, thousands of carp come here from the lower reaches of the Yellow River and rush upstream. Legend has it that no more than seventy carp can swim up to Longmen in a year.

2. As soon as the carp climbs onto the dragon gate, thunder and lightning will follow, and fire will fall from the sky, burning its tail. Then, it will transform into a dragon, and those carps that have not jumped over the dragon gate will fall from the sky and fall on their foreheads.

A black scar. Therefore, most of the carp we see have a black scar on their foreheads.