No. The fish is the most important and common good luck symbol in Chinese anthropology or folklore. The most direct way to say this is to say, "Every year there is fish" or "Every year there is surplus", which is derived from the word "fish". Since "fish" is a homonym of "surplus," it gives people in the present world a space for imagination or a dreamy outlook. That is to say, in an era of material scarcity, "having surplus" or "being rich" is a vision that people share. This may not be the whole folklore of "Yearly Fish", but in the Chinese cultural tradition, "fish" has its original significance as a good-luck charm. Since fish can swim freely in the water, unlike people who are confined by the water in the present world, fish has the same function as birds (more specifically geese), i.e., as a means of communication. (more specifically, "geese"), i.e., as a synonym for letters. Thus, the story of the "Fish Passing Ruler" came to be. The Tang Dynasty poet Li Shangyin, who specialized in riddle poems (or love poems), wrote in "Sending to Linghu Langzhong": "Songyun and Qinshu have long been separated from each other, and the two carp have a long way to go in a paper book." Even earlier, Cai Yong's "Drinking Horses from the Great Wall Grottoes" reads, "The guest came from afar and left me a pair of carp. I called my son to cook the carp, and there was a book of ruler and vein in it. I am afraid that these are the first origin of "fish book" and "shakusu". Similarly, there is a word called "fish paper", such as the Tang poem, "Shu fish paper several lines of words, remembering your dreams of autumn over the South Pond". No matter "fish book" "fish paper" are pointing to an auspicious thing, this is undoubtedly. "Fish pass ruler" later really called "fish". Such as "Suddenly reported that the autumn river fish to the Su, seems to say that the color of the mountains Cao Cao more". There are also some fish-related references to things, also related to good luck and harmony. Such as "fish", "fish water". The former "fish" is the sui and tang dynasty court praise sends the credentials, the gold, silver, copper, wood, etc. as a fish type of praise sent to officials around the world, in order to show the size of the official position and pass, inspections, control of the local use. The latter "fish and water" is a direct metaphor for the two (whether ruler and ministers or friends, etc.) to be harmonious, and later on, it is a metaphor for the couple and good. Of course, "fish and water together" also has a metaphor for the sexes.

Fish as an auspicious reference is much older in Chinese cultural tradition, or to be more precise, in Chinese human folklore. The Shanhaijing, written around the time of the Warring States period, contains a record of fish as an auspicious reference. The Shanhaijing (Classic of Mountains and Seas) 6.1 (Classic of Mountains and Seas) 6.1 (Classic of Western Mountains) describes a fish called the "skate fish". The "Skate Fish" is a fish with wings that can fly. It was a fish with wings that could fly. This kind of fish can not only fly, but also fly at night. The Classic of Mountains and Seas says that when this fish comes out of the water, "the world will be very large." "Great Rang" means great harvest. This is perhaps the earliest record of fish and harvest in Chinese ancient texts, or the earliest primitive willingness to connect fish and harvest in Chinese ancient texts. That is to say, the folkloric term "yearly fish" (or "yearly surplus") and its references (including its energetic references, which can also be found in the canonical texts) do not have no provenance as it is said to be, but rather, their provenance is still very early! In the Shan Hai Jing, there is also the saying that flying fish can be used to protect soldiers. However, in the Shan Hai Jing, the appearance of fish as well as fishes are not all auspicious indications, exactly the opposite, in the Shan Hai Jing, fish as well as fishes are often bad omens. Now let's take a look at the "South, West, North, East, and Center" of the "Shanhaijing" in the five mountain scriptures have similar records. For example:

-- Winning Fish Out, "Fish body and bird wings, sound like mandarin ducks, see it, its euphony big water."

--Kan Yu fish, "If you see it, the world will be flooded."

--Fish (bone, sound slippery) fish out, "If you see it, the world is in great drought."

-- Lernaeus (鳋鱼) out, "If you move, there will be a great army in his euphony."

--The tamer tamer, with the shape of a snake, "moves in and out with a light, and if he sees it, there is a great drought in his county".

The first four are real fish - the ones recorded in the Shanhaijing, of course, which are mostly of mythological significance - while the latter are amphibious creatures that live mainly in the water, with ridges, scales, and wings, such as water snakes. What we see very clearly here is that the appearance of some of the fish does not indicate an auspicious omen, but rather reveals a bad omen. In an age of floods, when we ate and labored by the sky, a good weather is what we human beings look forward to the most. And both floods and droughts are the enemies of our species, and enemies that are almost impossible to defeat. Therefore, before these great floods and droughts come, we human beings always hope that there is not such an omen in the underworld. That is to say, there is a kind of indication before the onset of an unpredictable disaster. The omen of "Lernaea" is about war. War was not a cause for celebration for the ancestors (and also for the present generation). That is to say, war would bring disaster to the people. Therefore, people did not want war, or whether war could be avoided. Thus, in addition to being an omen of natural disasters, fish can also be used as an omen of man-made disasters in the Shanhaijing. Because of such omens, we humans can do what we can to prevent them. Both qualitatively and psychologically. From a primitive point of view, psychological preparation is often more important. It's not just the preparation that precedes the act, but it's the psychological comfort. Why? It means that man can still know in advance a little bit of the secrets of heaven or of God. Thus the sudden appearance of a certain object, that is to say, these animals were earlier this easy to appear. Once it appears, it reveals the events that we could not have known, and then maybe we can know a little bit more or less.

Some of the fish became such referents - referents of the gods.

In such a case, we see that the fish as a mascot is not innate. It is likewise related to the fact of derivation. The Records of the Grand Historian (史记?6?1项羽本纪)" says, "Now that people are on the chopping block of the knife, I am the meat of the fish. What is "fish and meat", that is, edible things. Only, in this discussion of Sima Qian, "fish and meat" has become a reference to things that can be slaughtered. This kind of "refers to" because "fish" and "meat" itself is available to people as food "can refer to" symbols The "referent" is because "fish" and "meat" themselves are "capable" symbols that can be used as food. In the Classic of Mountains and Seas, fish as a kind of food has been recognized by the ancestors for a long time. Even auspicious symbols such as the "skate fish" were already edible in themselves. The Shanhaijing describes it like this. "The skate is like a carp...its flavor is sour and sweet, and it is wild to eat". That is to say, although people eat this kind of fish some problems, but at the same time shows that the ancestors will eat this kind of fish (about the types of fish and edible and inedible, will be another article dedicated to). As for the other fish recorded in the Classic of Mountains and Seas, they are described entirely as food. For example, carp, perch, mandarin fish, and so on. The fact that fish can be used as food for human beings shows that the ancestors realized very early that whatever flies in the sky (such as birds), runs on the ground (such as beasts), or swims in the water (such as fish) can be used by human beings as food. Thus, we see in the Shanhaijing the fact that the fish, as a reference to the beautiful visions of man, were more often than not bad omens, even though they had already arisen among the first people. Moreover, we also see that it can be treated as food for human beings - so that at the present time, the "fish" of the "yearly fish" can be put on the table for human beings to eat.