According to the book "The Way of Guanyin", the aojiang fish is like a fish rather than a fish, like a turtle rather than a turtle. Its head looks like a dragon's head, but it has no beard. It is covered with heavy armor and has four feet. Usually hiding at the bottom of the water, emerging from the water when foraging, as big as a ship, moving very fast. It can not only swim in the water, but also climb ashore. With its sharp teeth and thick carapace, it dares to roam the world without restraint. It not only eats cattle, sheep, pigs and dogs, but also likes to eat people. Coastal residents can't be killed, and they can't escape. There is really nothing they can do about it. When Guanyin Bodhisattva learned about this, she found 108,000 pieces of silk to form a rope, cut the willow in the Aquarius into nine barbed hooks, inserted them at one end of the rope, and then made a human figure out of the sand by the sea, and hid the nine barbed hooks in the clay figurine's abdomen. Seeing the stone appear, he threw the clay figurine head on. As soon as the anchovy saw someone eating it, it opened its mouth and swallowed it. As soon as the clay figurine entered Ao Bai's abdomen, it melted away, and nine barbed hooks on the rope wrapped around his heart, making him roll painfully on the beach. Guanyin Bodhisattva said, "Evil beasts have been in the world for a long time, and I don't know how many creatures have been killed, so they should be destroyed. I invite you to practice in the South China Sea out of sympathy. Would you like to? " Said, and relaxed the rope in his hand. Aofish, after all, is a little well informed and nodding. So Guanyin Bodhisattva set foot on Ao Bai's back and set sail.
The stone fish at the foot of Guanyin Bodhisattva is also a common theme for poets. Li Bai, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty, chanted in Roaring Tiger: "The giant ao doesn't cut the sea, but the arowana runs!" Yu, a famous poet in Tang Dynasty, also likes to introduce Ao into poetry. There are two lines in his poem "Bai Sheren sent a new poem from Hangzhou, so he paid for the play": "Aojing Canghai, the wind and thunder rise, and the door is right for the sky."
It's amazing that octopus can step on Guanyin's foot. It is regarded as a symbol of strength. In the Tang and Song Dynasties, there was a giant eagle carved on the front steps of the palace. When officials such as Academician and Cheng Zhi met the emperor, they stood in the middle of the steps, so they called imperial academy the "top eagle". In the imperial examination era, the champion was summoned by the emperor, so he was called the "champion".