What is the origin of "carp yue longmen"?

1, ancient legend has it that the Yellow River carp will turn into a dragon when it jumps over the Longmen. Yaya Shi Yu: "As the saying goes, a fish jumps over the Longmen, and after crossing the Longmen, it is a dragon. Only carp is possible." Li Yuan's Creeping Fan in the Qing Dynasty: "Carp ... every year, Ji Man climbs the Longmen upstream in the yellow, and the skyfire burns its tail from behind, then it turns into a dragon." Later, I used "carp yue longmen" as a metaphor for promotion, promotion and other things.

2. Metaphor goes upstream; Make progress.

Story:

Long, long ago, before the Longmen was cut, the Yi River was blocked by Longmen Mountain, and a big lake accumulated in the south of the mountain.

Carps living in the Yellow River have heard that Longmen is beautiful and all want to go sightseeing. They set out from the Yellow River in Jin Meng, crossed the Luohe River, and followed the Yi River to the splashing place of Longmen, but there was no waterway on Longmen Mountain, so they had to gather at the foot of the North Longmen Mountain. "I have an idea. How about we skip this Longmen Mountain? " A red carp said to everyone. "How can you jump so high?" "If you don't jump well, you will fall to your death!" The partners are confused and can't make up their minds. The big line carp volunteered and said, "I'll try it first." I saw it exhausted all its strength from half a mile away, like an arrow that left the string, jumping into the clouds for a long time, driving the clouds and rain in the air forward. A mass of skyfire came from behind and burned its tail. It endured the pain, continued to leap forward, and finally crossed Longmen Mountain and fell into the lake in the south of Shannan. In a blink of an eye, it became a dragon. Seeing this, the carp in the north of the mountain are scared to shrink together and dare not take any more risks. Just then, I suddenly saw a dragon descending from the sky and said, "Don't be afraid, I'm your partner Red Carp, because I jumped over the Longmen and became a dragon." You have to jump bravely! " "Hearing these words, the carp was encouraged and began to jump off the Longmen Mountain one by one. But except for a few who jumped into dragons, most of them couldn't get through. Anyone who can't jump over and fall from the air will have a black scar on his forehead. To this day, this black scar still grows on the forehead of the Yellow River carp.

Later, Li Bai, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty, wrote a poem specifically for this matter: "The Yellow River three-foot carp originally lived in Jin Meng, but it didn't last long, and all the fish returned."

Name: Carp Jumping Dragon Gate

Classification: sculpture

Type: stone carving

Year of production: Ming

Location: Shexian County, Anhui Province

Size: 75cm in height and 363cm in length.

Collector: Shaanxi Provincial Mass Art Museum

Photographer: Zeng Xianyang

Written by Zeng Xianyang

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This is suitable for the decoration of Qianheng Square in Guo Xushi Square in Shexian County, Anhui Province. Guo Xushi Square was built in the 12th year of Wanli in Ming Dynasty (AD 1584), and it is a national key cultural relic. Shifang is a wood-like building, with a height of 1 1.5m, a rectangular plane with three floors and four columns on the front and three floors on both sides. The columns, beams, plaques, sparrows and stone foundations of the whole stone workshop are all decorated and carved, which is a masterpiece of Huizhou stone carving technology. Carp yue longmen is one of the traditional auspicious patterns. Three carp have jumped out of the water, and the middle one has wings and is about to fly away, which reflects the rich imagination of folk craftsmen.

This is suitable for the decoration of Qianheng Square in Guo Xushi Square in Shexian County, Anhui Province. Guo Xushi Square was built in the 12th year of Wanli in Ming Dynasty (AD 1584), and it is a national key cultural relic. Shifang is a wood-like building, with a height of 1 1.5m, a rectangular plane with three floors and four columns on the front and three floors on both sides. The columns, beams, plaques, sparrows and stone foundations of the whole stone workshop are all decorated and carved, which is a masterpiece of Huizhou stone carving technology. Carp yue longmen is one of the traditional auspicious patterns. Three carp have jumped out of the water, and the middle one has wings and is about to fly away, which reflects the rich imagination of folk craftsmen.