The story of the carp leaping over the dragon Gate

In the East China Sea, a large group of golden back carp, white belly carp, gray eye carp, heard that King Yu wanted to choose to jump on the dragon gate of Yuxiu talent to protect the dragon gate, then in groups, upstream along the Yellow River.

Before they could see the shadow of Longmen, the gray carp were dazed by the sand in the Yellow River, turned their heads, floated down the river, and swam back to the Yellow Sea with little effort. Unfortunately, it was met with the open mouth of the sea monster fish and turtle, then crying out.

However, the gold-backed carp and the white-bellies carp, placed into a long line, took turns to play the front, beat the wind and waves, day and night, and finally swam to the foot of Longmen. They put their heads out of the water and looked up at the Longmen: on each side of the magical Longmen, there was a thick white marble pillar. A vivid stone dragon is carved on the jade pillar. The dragon wrapped itself around the jade pillar and circled up until it reached the top of the hundred-zhang pillar. The water waves in the Longmen are towering, and the silver water drops splash onto the dragon head, which is just a strange color picture of "Two dragons playing with pearls". On either side of the background is the blue sky white clouds, against the longmen stone couplet: "long long long long, ChaoChao ChaoChao ChaoChao toward". The scenery surpasses that Penglai fairyland.

After seeing the beautiful scenery, the carp signed up for the exam to King Yu. Yu Wang saw great joy, said: "The ichthyosaur is the same kind of birth, jump on the dragon gate will be a dragon."

When the carp heard this, they immediately gilled and wagged their tails, and jumped up with all their life's strength. They did not expect to jump out of the water more than a foot high, and they fell down and fell on the water. But they are not discouraged, but day and night hard to fall and jump. In this way, I practiced for seventy-seven forty-nine days, and I could jump seventy-seven forty-nine feet high. But there's still a long way to go before you get over that ledge.

Da Yu saw that the carp were willing to practice hard, so he enlightened them and said: "What a big group of fish!" Upon hearing Yu's words, a golden-backed carp was greatly enlightened and said to the school of fish: "The king of Yu said: 'What a large school of fish', didn't it inspire us to join forces and jump onto the dragon gate?" All the fish called out: "Thank you, Wang Yu!"

The carp are happy to shake their head and tail, a stripe of staring, gills, with the tail to hit the water, only to listen to the "fat fat" hit the sound of continuous. Jumping 7749 feet high, one by one in the air, breathing for breath, and jumping 7749 feet high again. Only two zhangs away, Yu Wang fanned a breeze with his hand, and the wind encouraged the fish to leap, one by one, onto the dragon gate they were longing for day and night.

But there was a gold-backed carp that called the air cushion for all the fish, and he and his companions all jumped over the dragon gate, except himself who remained at the foot of the dragon gate. It thought: Why don't I use water power to jump over the dragon gate. It happened that the Yellow River water was rushing in the heart of the Longmen River on the boulder, the spray a splash dozens of feet high, the golden back carp suddenly jumped out of the water, jumped on the crest of the wave, and hit the crest of the wave with the tail, the fish jumped up, did not expect to jump between the blue sky and white clouds. Once again flit down on the dragon gate, like the sky dragon descend to earth. Da Yu saw, amazed, and then in this golden back carp head point red, in an instant, Yulong change. The golden carp turns into an auspicious object a golden dragon. Dayu life golden dragon led the carp to protect the dragon gate. According to the legend, in the past, people fishing on the Yellow River if they caught a red carp on the head, they immediately put it back into the Yellow River. This is where the red dot on the school's admission list comes from.

Since ancient times, there are many scholars in Hancheng, and they "put the children into the official", which is called "fish leap Longmen". Hanseong City also established the "Longmen Academy". On the wall of the gate of the Confucian Temple, there is a "fish leaping Longmen map" carved in brick.