The carp crossing the dragon gate means prosperity and success in career.

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Carp jumped over the Dragon Gate. Ancient legend says that the Yellow River carp jumped over the Dragon Gate (referring to the Dragon Gate at the narrowest point of the Shanxi-Shaanxi Grand Canyon where the Yellow River roars down from the mouth of the Hukou. Today If you call it Yu's Gate), it will transform into a dragon.

It is written in "Piya Shiyu": "It is said that a fish leaps over the dragon's gate and turns into a dragon when it passes by. Only carp may be like this." Li Yuan of the Qing Dynasty wrote in "Wei Fan Objects": "The yellow ones are born every year When Jichun goes against the current and climbs Longmen Mountain, the sky fire burns its tail, and it turns into a dragon. "Later, "a carp jumps over the Dragon Gate" is used as a metaphor for success, promotion and other successes.

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According to records, in the Tang Dynasty, the tiger talisman was changed into a fish talisman, and copper was cast into the shape of a carp as a symbol of military power and imperial power. In addition to the fact that "Carp" has the same pronunciation as the emperor's surname "Li", another reason is that "Carp" means "the lord of fish, capable of magical transformation, and able to leap over a dragon gate and become a dragon."

In traditional Chinese culture and art, the patterns of "fish" and "water" are symbols of prosperity and harvest, and "fish" also has the connotation of good fortune and abundance every year. People use "carp jumping over the dragon's gate" to symbolize success in career and the realization of dreams.

The legend of Carp Leaping over Dragon Gate:

Carp Leaping over Dragon Gate, also known as Carp Leaping over Dragon Gate and Fish Leaping over Dragon Gate, is a folk legend in ancient China. According to legend, after Yu established Yique, the water flow was so fast that the carp swimming in the Yellow River in Mengjin (now a county under the jurisdiction of Luoyang) traveled upstream along the water of Luo and Yi.

When we swam to Yique Longmen (the site of today's Longmen Grottoes in Luoyang), the waves were so huge that they jumped one after another, trying to climb over them. Those who jump over are regarded as dragons, and those who fail to jump will be left with a black scar on their foreheads. Therefore, Li Bai, the great poet of the Tang Dynasty, wrote in the poem "Gift to Cui Shiyu": "The three-foot carp in the Yellow River originally lived in Mengjin, and the forehead cannot be counted." Jackie Chan, come back and accompany the mortal fish."

From then on, every late spring, countless golden carp followed the Yellow River upstream, gathered at the foot of Yumen, and jumped hard. Occasionally, those who jumped by would turn into blue dragons and soar into the sky. . The Yumen who transformed into a dragon and ascended to the sky was called Dragon Gate, which meant that once he jumped over the Dragon Gate, his worth would be a hundred times greater. According to legend, the carp leaping over the dragon gate is often represented by the turtle with the head of a dragon and the body of a fish.