Ya Ya Shi Yu, a Lu Dian in the Song Dynasty: "As the saying goes, a fish jumps over the dragon gate, and if it crosses it, it is a dragon, only carp can."
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."
Longmen Mountain, the "Three Ji Qin" in Han Xin, lies in the east of the river. It's more than a mile wide to break the door in Chishao Mountain. The Yellow River flows downstream, and there are no chariots and horses on both sides. In Ji Chun, yellow carp swim from the sea and the river every year. He who comes to the door at the age of one is only 72. Climb the Longmen for the first time. That is, the clouds follow the rain, and the sky fire burns its tail from behind and turns it into a dragon.
Chronology of Bamboo Slips is the work of Wei historians at the end of the Warring States Period. The record of "Longmen Red River" in the book shows that the fairy tale of "Carp yue longmen" was not formed at that time. Most of the records of "Yuhualong" come from Han books, so the formation of fairy tales should be in the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, which may be related to the strengthening of the concept of dragon worship in the early Han Dynasty.
Story:
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 Yellow River in Jin Meng, Henan Province, crossed the Luohe River, followed the Yi River to the splash mouth 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 beautiful and vigorous 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 jump forward, and finally crossed Longmen Mountain and fell into the lake in the south of Shannan. Carps in the north of the mountain saw that the tail of red carp was burned by skyfire, and they were scared to shrink together, afraid to 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 living in Jin Meng, failed to make it, and all the fish returned."
The original site of the fable "Carp yue longmen" is located in Gaoping District of Nanchong City. According to the Northern Song Dynasty's Records of Yuanfeng's Nine Domains, "there is a dragon gate three miles north of Zhou Guo". On August 8, 2000, the State Post Bureau officially issued a set of special stamps of "Carp Jumping at Longmen". On the morning of the same day, the launching ceremony of the stamp "Carp Jumping at Longmen" was held in Gaoping District, Nanchong City, the legendary hometown of "Carp yue longmen".