In fact, the monk knocked on the wooden fish not to warn himself, but to warn the wooden fish. Its origin is related to a maritime invasion seven thousand years ago.
Archaeological data show that 7000 years ago, there was an ocean invasion called tornado worm type, which turned the eastern Zhejiang Plain into a shallow sea, leaving only a small part of the Hangjiahu Plain. The east of Taihu Lake was completely swept by seawater, and Hangzhou City was a bay. Due to the invasion, some indigenous residents were forced to retreat to Huiji Mountain, Siming Mountain and Tiantai Mountain, some moved to the hills of western Zhejiang and southern Jiangsu, and some fled to islands.
At that time, people could not explain the deviant behavior scientifically, so they observed and explained it with imagination and borrowed imagination, and passed it on from generation to generation. In the Warring States period, Liezi Tang Wen was a bright pearl in the treasure house of China culture, which was completely cut and recreated by a man named Lieyukou. Tang Wen said: On the east bank of the Bohai Sea, there used to be five sacred mountains, all of which were places where immortals lived. Because mountains have no roots, they often drift with the waves. The immortals were very worried, so they told the Emperor that the Emperor ordered Yu Qiang to take the 15 giant aojiang and hold the sacred mountain with the aojiang, so that the Five Mountains could not move. There is a very tall man in Longbo State. With his feet up, he can walk all over the five mountains in just a few steps. When he came here, he caught six Aotou at once, so Daiyu and Yuanao mountains sank to the bottom of the sea. "Immortals spread to hundreds of millions of people."
The ancient concept of orientation is different from today's. The eastern Bohai Sea mentioned by Tang Wen refers to the coast of Zhejiang. The so-called holy mountains are Huiji Mountain, Siming Mountain, Tiantai Mountain, Zhoushan Islands and Shengsi Islands, which are tilted from southwest to northeast and plunged into the East China Sea. "Immortal settlers" are the original residents who created prehistoric culture. Zhuangzi, a contemporary of Liezi, also said the fable that Ren Gongzi "squatted on the record and cast a pole in the East China Sea". Two people say the same thing. Many celebrities and scholars from Qin, Han, Jin and Tang dynasties came here to look for the holy mountain and claimed to be fishermen. It can be seen that the impact of this invasion is far-reaching.
Tang Wen is the product of deviance. Since people blame Aoyu's dereliction of duty and Yu Qiang's lax control on the cross-flow of the sea, they imitate fish and wood carvings to symbolize Aoyu, and invite monks who talk about everything to beat it day and night to keep it alert and prevent it from being caught. This is the original symbolic meaning of the monk knocking on the wooden fish; Guanyin Bodhisattva standing on the back of the fish is a symbol of the future of Muyu. When she was in India, she was entrusted with the mission of listening to the voices of suffering in the world and saving all sentient beings from entering the paradise. When she arrived in China, she realized that people cared about octopus, so she took the responsibility of disciplining octopus and stood on its back day and night. Although she used her brains to ask questions about the white dress mentioned above, she didn't pursue it to the end, so that the story of nonsense has spread to this day.