Idiom Meaning of Carp Jumping Dragon Gate

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Longmen

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According to an ancient legend, the Yellow River carp will become a dragon when it jumps over Longmen Mountain in Luoyang City, Henan Province. 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. Later, the metaphor went upstream; Make progress.

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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."

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Long, long ago, before the Longmen was cut, Yishui was blocked by Longmen Mountain, and a big lake was piled up to the south of the mountain.

Carps living in the Yellow River have heard that Longmen is beautiful and all want to go sightseeing. They started from the South Mengjin Yellow River, crossed the Luohe River and followed the Yi River to the splash gate of Longmen, but there was no waterway on Longmen Mountain, so they had to gather at the foot of Longmen North 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. Red 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."

[Edit this paragraph] Longmen

One is located in the east and west mountains on both sides of the Yi River 13 km south of Luoyang City, Henan Province. Xishan, also known as Longmen Mountain, is named after it. It was called yique in ancient times, so it is also called yique grottoes. It was excavated in the 18th year of Taihe in the Northern Wei Dynasty (494), that is, before and after Emperor Xiaowen moved to Luoyang, and it lasted more than 65,438+0,000 years from the Eastern Wei Dynasty, the Western Wei Dynasty, the Northern Qi Dynasty, the Sui Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties to the end of the Qing Dynasty, especially in the Northern Wei Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty. There are large and small caves and niches on the cliffs of Longmen Mountain (Xishan) and Xiangshan Mountain (Dongshan) on both sides of the Yi River. There are about 265,438+000 grottoes, more than 40 pagodas, 3,860 inscriptions and more than 6,543.8 million statues. Longmen Grottoes have the largest number of Tang grottoes, accounting for about 2/3. Typical caves include Qianxi Temple, Fengxian Temple and Kanjing Temple. Followed by the Northern Wei Dynasty, accounting for about 1/3. Typical caves are Guyang Cave, Binyang Cave, Lianhua Cave and Wanfo Cave. Most of the statues in the grottoes are Buddhas, disciples, Bodhisattvas, Heavenly Kings and Lux, as well as secular donors, Buddhist biographies and Bunsen stories. There are 1 1 Buddha statues carved in the cliff niche of Fengxian Temple, and the main Buddha is17m high. There are 1.5 million stone carvings on the north and south walls of Wanfo Cave, all of which are masterpieces of the Tang Dynasty. The number of inscriptions ranks first in China Grottoes, and the famous "Longmen Twenty" represents the calligraphy works in Wei, early Tang and prosperous Tang dynasties.

Erlongshan, also known as Yumen, is located 30 kilometers north of hancheng city, Shaanxi Province. According to Gong Yu, "As for the Longmen, the river guides the stone." According to "Famous Mountain", "When the river reaches this mountain, the water waves rise and fall, like a mountain boiling". Qing Qianlong's "Hancheng County Records" contains: "There are broken mountains and cliffs on both sides of the strait, which are relatively like doors, but dragons can cross them, so they are called Longmen." According to legend, "Longmen" was carved by Dayu when he was in charge of water control, also known as Yumendu. Regarding "Yu chisels Longmen", Lv Chunqiu said: "Diligent in the world, unremitting day and night, connecting with Dachuan, absolutely blocking, chiseling Longmen." "Three Stories Meeting" records: "There are two mountain walls here, from which the river flows out, competing for about a hundred steps. The walls on both sides are cut off and shaped like doors, so it is called "Longmen".

Near the "Longmen", there are traces of Xu Duoyu. In the big river south of Longmen, there is the so-called "Yu Wangling", which is exposed to the water and shaped like a sandbar. Although water has been pounding, it can't be submerged. Legend has it that when the cliff was cut, the boulder fell into the middle stream, sank to the bottom of the water and solidified into a hill, which was the place where the construction was commanded, not the "Yuwangling". There is also a stone in Yumen water, engraved with the word "Longmen", as big as a bucket, and people will see it when they reach the bottom; When the river rises, the stones sink. I don't know the author's name and the date of engraving.

Longmen is the throat of the Yellow River, the second largest river in China. Longmen Mountain straddles the banks of the Yellow River, with high mountains facing each other, cliffs standing on the wall and huge waves roaring. Xiyumen Mountain is 892.6 meters high and Dongyumen Mountain is 89 1 meter high. The terrain is very dangerous. The winding Yellow River runs down from the Kunlun Mountain with continuous snow peaks. Along the way, Wanxi met, screaming, crossing the canyon, getting deeper and deeper, and heading straight for the foot of Longmen Mountain. Here, the mountains on both sides of the strait overlap, the rivers are swift and swift, and the risks are unpredictable, giving people a sense of adventure like being on a cliff and moored in a deep pool. One of the eight scenic spots in Hancheng, the so-called "Spring Wave at Yumen" refers to this place.

There is a Temple of Danger on the East and West Longmen Mountains. The Western Regions Temple in Yuan Shizu was built in the early Yuan Dynasty? AD 1264。 Magnificent buildings, standing on the mountain, pavilions, steep, beautiful and elegant, carved with beams and painted with buildings, are gorgeous and unusual. Standing in front of the temple, I was deeply moved by the vivid expression of the ancient poem "The Yellow River goes straight to the sky and two mountains suddenly open". Every March, people from Shanxi and Shaanxi gather here to trade materials, which is very lively.

"Longmen", mountain to mountain, with the Yellow River running in between. The waves are rough and roaring like thunder. Therefore, the ancients had a beautiful sentence of "Yumen is three levels deep and minefield". Longmen Scenic Area is really a miracle of the world. There is a myth in the story of Sanqin: Every March, when the ice and snow melt, there are yellow river carp leaping from under the Longmen of Baihe River. There are only seventy-two carp that can jump into Longmen in a year. As soon as you climb the Longmen, the clouds and rain will follow, and the sky will burn its tail and turn into a dragon; If you can't climb the dragon gate, just point your forehead and show your cheeks? Refers to the amount of damage. "Because it is not easy to climb, it is valuable. In the past scientific era, people who were famous for their gold medals were called "yue longmen", that is, "once on the Dragon Gate is worth ten times".

Longmen Mountain is high, towering into the sky, steep and steep, and the Yellow River is tightly sandwiched in the middle. The narrowest place is Longmen Pass, which is only 60 meters long and looks like a doorway. Here, the torrent rushes to the shore, and the waves splash and spin together, and the sound is like thunder. As soon as the water comes out of the estuary, it pours thousands of miles, and the four fields are open, just as Li Bai, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty, sang, "The Yellow River comes from the west to set Kunlun, roaring Wan Li and touching Longmen."

[Edit this paragraph] Sculpture of the same name

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 is about to fly away with wings, 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.

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Main materials and accessories:

750g live carp 1 treaty

1 white radish

Jiu Shao 10g

Coriander 10g

5 g refined salt

Egg skin 1 piece

Monosodium glutamate 1g

Chicken soup 1500g

Nostoc flagelliforme 5g

Vermicelli 15g

4 chicken feet

Cooking method:

1. Carve four faucets out of white radish, tie the vermicelli into a keel 13.2 cm thick, fry it in a frying pan, take it out and wrap it tightly with egg skin. As a dragon body, the scales of the dragon are made of coriander leaves, and the claws of the dragon are replaced by chicken feet. Take two white radish piers and insert bamboo sticks for later use.

2. Boil the chicken soup in a soup pot with Shaoxing wine and refined salt, add monosodium glutamate to the pot, pour it into a special fish pot, and light the alcohol under the pot rack after serving.

3. Take out the live carp, quickly operate it from behind, stab it straight along the fish spine, and stab it straight from the skin with the other knife. Take out two fresh fish, cut them into iris leaves, put them back in their original places, insert the fish head and tail into bamboo sticks, sandwich them between two dragons, pose as carp yue longmen, and serve immediately.

4. Quickly peel the fresh fish slices under the skin of the live fish with chopsticks, put them into the boiling chicken soup pot, cover the pot, and when the pot boils, use a spoon to hold a small bowl of fresh soup and fish slices for everyone, then remove all the fish bones and two dragons, remove the radish pier and bamboo stick, scrape off the scales, take out the internal organs, wash the blood stains, and put the fish rack into the original plate. At the same time, add chicken soup to the fish pot, light alcohol to boil, put all the fish racks and dragons into the fish pot, cover the pot, boil, and then fill the soup to enjoy the taste of burning the tail.

Process key

This dish has a high technical content, which requires skilled technology and high speed, keeping the fish fresh and making the soup tender and mellow.

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1. This dish is based on the allusion of "Fish Long Changed". According to "Three Ji Qin", "Longmen Mountain, to the east of the river, is more than a mile away. The Yellow River flows down from the middle, and there are no chariots and horses on both sides. Whenever there are yellow crucian carp coming and going from the sea and Sichuan in spring. One year old, but seventy-two. When I first boarded the Longmen, the clouds and rain followed, and the sky fire burned its tail from behind, but it turned into a dragon. " Li Bai, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, wrote in his poem "To Minister Cui Qing": "The Yellow River three-foot carp originally lived in Jin Meng, but it failed to make it, and all the fish returned." There are very few people who can turn "every fish" into dragons, and those who can't jump over the dragon gate will have a disaster of "quantity" and "sudden carp" Later generations described the person who failed the exam in Sun Shan as "paying back the money".

2. This dish has strong craftsmanship and vivid image. Carp is in the middle of the strip, and there are two golden dragons on both sides. Carp's head is raised as if to jump over the dragon gate. The soup is fresh and tender, mellow in taste and special in eating. It has the style of "barbecue" and is one of the famous dishes in Xi 'an, an ancient city, which imitates the Tang Dynasty.

[Edit this paragraph] Why did carp dive?

As the saying goes, "Carp yue longmen" means that carp are used to diving. Carp and many other fish like diving. Different fish have different diving skills. Some fish jump very high. For example, there is a kind of fish called "jumping fish", which can jump four or five meters above the water, and can be said to be the "high jump champion" among fish. Carp can sometimes jump more than one meter out of the water.

Why do fish dive? According to the analysis of scientists, there are generally several reasons. Some are caused by changes in the surrounding environment. For example, on the eve of an earthquake disaster, the earth's magnetic field changes and fish feel threatened. For example, in order to avoid the enemy's sudden attack, crossing obstacles on the way; Or suddenly threatened, and so on. The instinctive reaction of fish to survive.

Another reason is physiological changes. When the fish is about to breed, it will produce something that can stimulate the nerves and make it in an excited state, so it especially likes jumping.

When the fish is fished out of the water, it will jump around. The reason is that when a fish swims in the water, its muscles are always stretching and contracting, shaking its head and wagging its tail to make it move forward in the water. When it first came out of the water, it still did the same action as it did in the water, but because it was not resisted by the water, its shaking action was particularly great. At this time, if it touches the ground, the ship's board and other solid objects, it will jump around.

Screenwriter: Jin Jin

Director: He Yumen

Release year: 1958

Country of manufacture: China.

Language: Mandarin

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This art film is a brand-new adaptation of the folklore "yue longmen the Carp", and won the first China popular film "Hundred Flowers Award" Best Art Film Award and other awards on 1959.

Little carp Xiaohei jumped over the pier and was applauded by four friends, but grandma didn't think so. She said that she should be able to jump over the Longmen like her ancestors, and she also talked about all kinds of beautiful scenery outside the legendary Longmen. Five little carp were deeply attracted by grandma's story, and after careful consideration, they decided to set out to find Longmen. After several mistakes along the way, they swam to a big reservoir, decided that the reservoir was Longmen, and began to try to jump over it. After several attempts, they finally succeeded. They really saw many beautiful scenery and began to argue whether to stay or go back. At this time, they met Sister Yan and learned many new things from her.