1, good luck

Chinese people celebrate the holidays, guests, the table is always a fish, meaning "year after year". Fish, in the eyes of the Chinese is not only food, but also with an auspicious meaning, and the whole mystery of the meaning, in fact, is a "harmonic".

2, career

Besides, when it comes to "Carp Leap Dragon Gate", I believe we all know it by heart. Legend has it that when the Yellow River carp jumps over the Dragon Gate, it changes into a dragon. It is said that in the past in the Yellow River fish fishing people, if fishing to the top of the head of the carp with a red dot, immediately put back to the Yellow River, because the fish is not ordinary fish, but the dragon fish, can see is the omen of good fortune.

Afterwards, the saying "Carp jumping over the Dragon Gate" was used as a metaphor for being successful in the imperial examination and being promoted to an official position. Now it is often compared to moving forward against the current; striving to be upward. Fish" is also loved by most people in modern times because of its special meaning.

3, beautiful

In folklore, people like to have a fish pattern of New Year's paintings, there are celebrations and wealth, wishing good meaning. The significance of the fish paper cutouts is that they are good for the year and represent great luck in the coming year at home.

Fish in the folk paper-cutting subject matter is widely used, take the harmonic such as "even (Lotus) years of surplus (fish)", said the expectations of the year into a good; "fish drill Lotus" is related to marriage, "fish" means male, "Lotus" symbolizes the female, "fish drill Lotus", "fish drill Lotus" means male, "Lotus" symbolizes the female, "fish drill Lotus", "fish drill Lotus" means male, "lotus" symbolizes the female. The "Fish Drilling Lotus" represents the intimate union of man and woman, happiness and harmony.

4. Love

The ancients used the lotus to symbolize love, and the fish to represent women, with the fish playing in the water between the lotus leaves to allude to the joyous scene of young men and women in love.

5, longing

Fish, like geese, can be used as a synonym for letters. Ancient people used to write letters on silk and silk in the belly of a fish in order to transmit messages secretly. This is called the "fish passes the ruler". "Fish" expresses the honest and sincere attachment between friends.

6, freedom

Pre-Qin Zhuangzi's "Zhuangzi and Huizi traveled on the Hao Liang," in Zhuangzi said: "repair the fish out of the swim calmly, is the joy of the fish." Meaning Leuciscus leuciscus swim in the river water how leisurely and at ease, this is the joy of the fish ah, Zhuang Zi envy the freedom of the fish, he pursued a kind of not for the merit of the restraints, not for the prosperity of the great freedom.

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