Poetry about carp yue longmen ~!

Author: Li Bai in Tang Dynasty

Three-foot-long Yellow River carp originally lived in Jin Meng.

Not counting my forehead, I came back full of fish.

Translation:

Three-foot-long Yellow River carp usually live in Jinmeng Pass. If you can't jump on the dragon gate, you can dye your forehead and go back to keep company with every fish.

There are two poems in Li Bai's "To Cui", both of which express the enthusiasm of being an official. This poem takes the carp of the Yellow River as a metaphor, which implicitly expresses the depressed mood of talents.

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Allusions to jumping carp in Longmen

Legend has it that a long time ago, many carp lived in the sea. One day, an old carp said that there is a dragon gate at the end of the sea. It is said that if you can surpass it, you can become a dragon. The leading golden carp told everyone that I was going to find Longmen. After many hardships, I jumped over the Longmen and became a dragon.

Driven by the little red carp, more and more carp jumped over the Longmen and became real dragons. 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.