The translation is as follows:
Longmen Mountain is on the east side of the Yellow River. Dayu flattened Longmen Mountain and opened up Longmen, which was more than a mile long. The Yellow River flowed down through the middle, making it impossible for vehicles and horses on both sides to pass. Every year in late spring, yellow carp come to Longmen from the sea and major rivers. In one year, no more than seventy-two carp are caught on Longmen. As soon as it boarded the dragon gate, clouds and rain followed it, and fire from the sky burned its tail from behind, so (the carp) transformed into a dragon. ?
Original text:
Longmen Mountain is on the east side of the river. Yu carved a broken gate in the mountain that was more than a mile wide. The Yellow River flows down from the middle, and there are no vehicles or horses on either side. Every year in the spring, yellow carps come from the sea and rivers to catch them. In one year of age, only seventy-two people can climb the Dragon Gate. When he first ascended the Dragon Gate, clouds and rain followed him, and fire from the sky burned his tail, turning him into a dragon.
The place where the story took place:
The legendary story of the fish leaping over the Dragon Gate happened at the location of the Longmen Grottoes in Luoyang today. Li Bai's "Gift to Cui Shiyu": "The three-foot carp in the Yellow River originally lived in Mengjin. It couldn't become a dragon when it touched its forehead. It returned to accompany ordinary fish." The "Mengjin" in the poem is now under the jurisdiction of Luoyang, bordering the Yellow River to the north.
According to legend, after Yu established Yique, the water flow was rapid. The carps swimming in the Yellow River in Yujin went upstream along the water of Luo and Yi. When they reached the dragon gate of Yique, the waves surged into the sky. They jumped one after another, trying to climb over. Those who jump over are regarded as dragons, and those who fail to jump will be left with a black scar on their foreheads. Therefore, Li Bai, the great poet of the Tang Dynasty, wrote in the poem "Gift to Cui Shiyu": "The three-foot carp in the Yellow River originally lived in Mengjin, and the forehead cannot be counted." Jackie Chan, return with the mortal fish.”
Since then, people have often described a certain climbing posture as “carp jumping over the dragon’s gate”. Little did they know that the most famous fish growing in the Yi River is the bream, which looks like a fish. The food in the boat is delicious, so Yang Jiezhi of the Northern Wei Dynasty wrote in "Luoyang Jialan Ji": "Luoyang carp and bream are more valuable than cattle and sheep." Sima Guang of the Song Dynasty also said in "Longmen": "People pity the mountains and the atmosphere is good. I sighed at the beauty of Yu's work. I thought that when I didn't see it, there was a flood everywhere, but the bream and the carp were spared.
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