1. It symbolizes a happy marriage. Later generations blessed a happy marriage with "fish and water".

2, carp is a symbol of friendship and love. Ancient people used fish-shaped wooden boards to make envelopes for delivering letters.

3. Carp is a symbol of hope for the future. In Japan, on Boys' Day, people who have sons are required to hang beautiful carp flags.

4. It symbolizes "good luck" and "great fortune". The day of the opening of the store, the fish tank will be placed in front of the door to store carp in order to "profit", "Daji".

Carp literature

Carp is China's most widely circulated auspicious objects.

During the Spring and Autumn Period, Confucius' wife gave birth to a boy, and it so happened that a few carp were sent to him, and Confucius "thought that it was a good thing", so he named his son Carp, and the character Bo Yu (Taiping Yuban, vol. 935, cited in the book "Customs and Traditions").

This shows that the custom of using carp as a symbol of good fortune was already popularized during the Spring and Autumn period, which is consistent with the record of the Records of the Grand Historian of the Zhou Dynasty (史记-周本纪) that the rise of the Zhou Dynasty was marked by the birth of a bird and the birth of a fish.

In the long history of development, the Chinese people gave carp a rich cultural connotation.

Some places in the organization of the wedding, there is a "carp sprinkler" ceremony, that is, in the bride out of the sedan chair, the male side of the man to the four copper sprinkled, so the carp has become a blessing to pray for the auspiciousness of the breeding. Ancient people used fish-shaped wooden boards to make envelopes (the letter of the book), used to transmit letters, so in ancient poetry, carp is also a symbol of friendship and love.