1. Tell the story of "Carp Crossing the Dragon Gate"
There is a large group of golden-backed carps, white-bellied carps, and gray-eyed carps in the East China Sea. I heard that King Yu wanted to select those who could leap over the Dragon Gate. The talented and elegant people guarding Longmen gathered in groups and went upstream along the Yellow River.
Before even seeing the shadow of Longmen, the gray-clad carp were knocked dizzy by the sand in the Yellow River. They turned around, swam down the river, and swam back to the Yellow Sea effortlessly. Unfortunately, I encountered a fish, turtle, and sea monster with its mouth wide open, and I was in mourning.
But the golden-backed carp and the white-bellied carp formed a long snake formation, taking turns to be the vanguard, facing the wind and waves, traveling day and night, and finally swam to the foot of the dragon gate. They put their heads out of the water and looked up at the dragon gate: on both sides of the magical dragon gate, there were two thick white marble pillars.
The jade pillars are carved with vivid stone dragons. The dragon's body is wrapped around the jade pillar, spiraling up to the top of the Baizhang pillar.
The water in the dragon gate is surging, and the silvery water droplets splash on the faucet, just like the strange color picture of "two dragons playing with a pearl". The background is the blue sky and white clouds, which reflect the stone carvings on both sides of the dragon gate: "Long, long, long, and long, the dynasty is the dynasty."
This scenery is better than Penglai Wonderland. After seeing the beautiful scenery, the carps applied to King Yu to take the exam.
King Yu was overjoyed when he saw it and said: "Fish and dragon are of the same species. When they leap onto the dragon gate, they become dragons." When the carps heard this, they immediately puffed up their gills and shook their tails, and jumped up with all their strength. Unexpectedly, as soon as I jumped out of the water, which was more than a foot high, I fell down and landed on the water, causing constant pain.
But they are not discouraged, but work hard day and night to practice tail-wrestling and jumping. I practiced like this for seventy-seven forty-nine days, and I was able to leap seventy-seven forty-nine feet high in one go.
But there is still a long way to go to jump up to the hundred-foot dragon gate. When Dayu saw that the carps were willing to practice hard, he enlightened them and said: "What a big group of fish!" A golden-backed carp learned a lot after listening to King Yu's words, and said to the group of fish: "King Yu said: "What a big group of fish", doesn't it inspire us to work together to jump to the dragon gate?" The fish all shouted: "Thank you, King Yu!" The carps shook their heads and tails happily, glaring their eyes, bulging their gills, and slammed their tails on the water. The sound of "fat fat" hitting the water continued one after another.
He jumped seventy-seven and forty-nine feet in the air. He took a breath and jumped seventy-seven and forty-nine feet in the air. Only two feet away, King Yu fanned a breeze with his hand, which made the fish jump. One by one, the fish jumped onto the dragon gate they yearned for day and night.
But there is a golden-backed carp that summons air to cushion the body of the fish. He and his companions all jumped onto the dragon gate, but he remained at the foot of the dragon gate. It thought: Why don't I use the power of water to jump up to the dragon's gate.
It happened that the water of the Yellow River was rushing against the huge rocks in the middle of the Longmen River. The waves splashed dozens of feet high. The golden-backed carp suddenly jumped out of the water, jumped onto the top of the wave, and slammed the top of the wave with its tail. , the fish jumped up and unexpectedly jumped into the blue sky and white clouds. Suddenly it landed lightly on the dragon gate, like a dragon descending from heaven.
When Dayu saw it, he was filled with admiration, and then he lit red on the head of the golden-backed carp. In an instant, the fish and dragon changed. The golden-backed carp turned into an auspicious object, a golden dragon.
Dayu ordered the golden dragon to lead the carps to guard the dragon gate. According to the legend of the strange old man, in the past, if people fishing in the Yellow River caught a carp with a red top, they would immediately put it back into the Yellow River.
This is where the practice of putting a red dot on the name comes from when the school recruits students. Since ancient times, there were many scholars in Hancheng, so they "promoted young children to become officials", which is likened to "fish leaping over the dragon's gate".
"Longmen Academy" was also established in Hancheng City. There is a brick carving of "Fish Leaping over the Dragon Gate" on the screen wall of the gate of the Confucian Temple.