1. Lucky mouth color
Old people have the custom of keeping pets, and they pay more attention to getting a favor. The homonym of goldfish is "golden jade" and "gold" stands for wealth, so rich and powerful people invited the court goldfish to their homes and hired a special fish to take care of it. The common people raise common varieties of goldfish for profit, which means "profit on holidays" and "profit every year". Children buy some grass money to play at home, hoping to have more signs in the coming year.
2. Pray for Nari
Goldfish is homophonic and auspicious, and also has the reproductive characteristics of having many children and grandchildren. Therefore, the ancients used it to express their feelings by borrowing things, pinning their good wishes for many children and many blessings. It is often reflected in folk art, such as New Year pictures, paper-cuts, lanterns and so on. It is a common folk blessing culture.
For example, before the Spring Festival, people have the habit of posting New Year pictures to decorate the environment, set off the atmosphere and express their good wishes for the new year. The masterpiece "Happy Ever After" in Tianjin Yangliuqing New Year Pictures was first drawn in the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty. In the picture, women are beautiful and elegant, young children are naive and lively, and goldfish are naive. On the surface, it depicts a happy family life, but in fact it has far-reaching implications, including two levels of hope. First, take the homonym of goldfish in the jar to please the "golden jade" and hope that the next year will be rich in financial resources and rich in life. Second, gold is a "golden boy" and jade is a "jade girl".
In our country, goldfish is still a symbol of dignity. A special symbol of honor in the official ranks of the Tang Dynasty was hanging goldfish bags, which were called "three-product Zijin fish bags". There is also a poem of "purple robe and golden rhinoceros" in Tang poetry.
3 store water to kill mosquitoes
Most of the ancient buildings in China are wooden structures. Once a fire breaks out, the consequences are unimaginable. Therefore, keeping goldfish is not only convenient to enjoy, but also has the function of storing water to extinguish fire and swallow mosquitoes.
Outdoor, trees, grass, etc. are easy to breed mosquitoes. They like to lay eggs and hatch in water. If you don't raise fish in water tanks for water storage and fire prevention, the water quality will soon deteriorate. Moreover, mosquitoes multiply in large numbers, and residents will feel uncomfortable. If other methods are used to kill mosquitoes, it is not only laborious, but also the effect is often not ideal.
If you keep a few goldfish in the water tank, it can not only improve the ornamental value, but also improve the water environment, purify the water quality and swallow mosquitoes, which has a positive effect on eliminating pests and diseases. The ancients generally raised goldfish about two inches in a clay pot with a water capacity of 100 to 400 Jin, and they could eat all the eggs and fry without feeding any food.