The story of Carp Leaping the Dragon Gate symbolizes the ideal of having a great ambition to keep going up and over, in order to jump the dragon gate and become a dragon. It represents that we should have the spirit of swimming upstream without fear of all kinds of obstacles for the sake of our ideals.

The carp did not just jump once to become a dragon, but also tells us to have perseverance and persistence, perseverance and hard work until we achieve our goals. At the same time, the carp that has not jumped will fall down from the air, and a black scar will fall on its forehead. It also tells us that we will always encounter all kinds of difficulties on the road of growth.

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The Story of Carp Leaping Dragon Gate

The Yellow River flooded, Shun enabled his son Yu to inherit his father's business, to control the flood, and Yu's way to control the flood was to dredge. The Jade Emperor ordered his youngest daughter to come down to the earth and marry Da Yu as his wife to help him to cure the flood. Yu dredged the floodwaters of the Yellow River to the northwestern part of Hejin, Shanxi Province, and the northeastern part of Hancheng, Shaanxi Province, where the floodwaters were diverted to the cliffs and gullies shaped like gates and queens, and the gullies and gullies were known as the Yu Gate.

The carp living in the Yellow River, however, were swept out of the Yu Gate and plunged into a waterfall more than ten feet deep, and the carp were unable to go back to their hometown, so they protested to Mr. and Mrs. Dayu.

Every spring season, there are countless golden carp following the Yellow River upstream, gathered under the Yu Gate, jumping hard, occasionally a leap over the person, will be transformed into a dragon, soaring above the sky.

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