Carp is a symbol of friendship and love. The ancients used fish-shaped boards to make envelopes for delivering letters.
Pin your hopes on your children's success. In Japan, every boy's day, families with sons hang beautiful carp flags.
4, meaning "profit" and "good luck". On the opening day of the merchant's shop, in order to "benefit the market" and "prosper", a fish tank for raising carp was specially put in front of the door.
Culture of worshipping carp
Carp is the most popular mascot in China.
During the Spring and Autumn Period, Confucius' wife gave birth to a boy, and someone happened to send some carp. Confucius "thought it was a good thing", so he named his son carp, which means "Apollo" ("The Pass" quoted in Taiping Yu Lan (Volume 935)). It can be seen that the custom of taking carp as a good omen has been popular in the Spring and Autumn Period, which is consistent with the record of the prosperity of the Zhou Dynasty in Historical Records of Zhou Benji.
In the long-term historical development, the people of China have endowed carp with rich cultural connotations.