The fish (yu) that is abundant every year means that there is a surplus every year, which represents a prosperous life, with excess wealth and food every year.

The Jade Emperor ordered the Dragon King to quickly divert rainwater to drop the nectar in the sun. After receiving the order from the Jade Emperor, the Dragon King immediately transferred water from the sea to drop the nectar in the sun. The careless and nervous Dragon King could not help but Carefully adjust the whale in the sea to land in the sun "again".

The Dragon King was afraid of being blamed by the Jade Emperor, so he claimed that he sent the fish to the sun, hoping that the people would have more than enough every year, and asked the Jade Emperor to appoint the fish to the fish god to give him rights, so that the world would have peace and more than every year.

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Related allusions

Fish, like wild geese, can be used as a synonym for letters. In order to convey secret information, the ancients wrote letters on silk and put them in the belly of fish. In this way, using fish to convey messages is called "fish conveying ruler elements".

During the Tang and Song Dynasties, dignitaries and dignitaries all wore letter talismans made of gold, called "fish talismans", to indicate their status. "Fish" and "yu" are homophonic, so fish symbolizes wealth. "Like a fish in water" is used to describe harmony, happiness and freedom between work and life.

A great man once said: "Humans changed from fish." This seems contradictory to the well-known "monkeys changed into humans" theory; but if you think about it carefully, the origin of life on earth In the ocean, and the advanced life in the ocean is fish. As an advanced life on land, it is said that humans have the same structure as the protein genes of fish in the evolutionary chain. Isn’t it consistent with the theory of evolution?

It can be seen that the theory that "fish can transform into a human being" is not just an unconventional theory made by a great man, but the result of his philosophical thinking. This statement can also be found in "friends" from other ethnic groups around the world. The legend of the "Fish Mermaid" is an example.

We can also find circumstantial evidence of the "distant relative" relationship between humans and fish from our country's history and folk customs. Chinese folk customs pay attention to offering fish to ancestors at the end of the year. The auspiciousness of having more fish every year is a kind of totem worship of fish.