In ancient times, "golden scale gourd tail fish"

In ancient China mythology, there are many records about anchovies. Male anchovies have gourd tails and female anchovies have hibiscus tails. They swim around the sea all day.

According to legend, the ancient gold and silver carp wanted to jump over the dragon gate and fly to the clouds to become dragons, but they stole the dragon balls from the sea and became only the leading fish, which was called "Aoyu".

In ancient mythology, there is also a well-known "Aoyu Woong San". According to Liezi Tang Xiang, there is a grand canyon in the east of Bohai Sea, hundreds of thousands of miles away. It's called a ghost animal, and the water from vilen in all directions on the earth and even the water from the Milky Way in the sky flows into the ghost animal.

There are five sacred mountains in Guixu: the first is Daiyu, the second is Jiao Yuan, the third is Fang Lake, the fourth is Yingzhou, and the fifth is Penglai. Surrounded by three Wan Li mountains, these mountains are 70,000 miles apart, and the top of the mountain is 9,000 miles flat, where immortals live.

Living in a pavilion built by Jinyu, eating immortal fruits and wearing flowers that will last for thousands of years, these immortals often fly between the five mountains, and they also have their own difficulties, because these five mountains are floating on the water, rootless, drifting with the tide and drifting with the wind. If they drift to the North Pole and sink to the bottom of the sea, the immortals will never have a place to live.

So, the immortal cried to the Emperor, and the Emperor ordered the sea god Yujiang to catch fifteen big octopus, three of which were a group. The five mountains are crowned as the head of the aojiang, and they are rotated every 60,000 years, that is, they are managed to press the five mountains on the back of the aojiang fish so that the five mountains will never sink to the bottom of the sea again. This is the myth of "fish carry mountains".

At present, the immortals in Lingyin Temple and other temples in Hangzhou are all carved at the bottom, with sacred mountains and various immortals such as Tathagata and Guanyin on them. These are all created according to the imagination of this myth and allusion.

The story of "catching an aojiang with a dragon wave" comes from the story of "catching an aojiang with one fish".

There is a Longbo country in Beihai area. People in Lombok are very tall. They are giants who chase the sun like Kuafu. From Beihai to Hui Gui, they can reach Wuyue within a few steps. They are interested in hearing that there are anchovies here. They caught six anchovies with giant fishing, carried them on their backs and hurried away. They went back to their own country and killed them in Aojiang.

In this way, six octopuses originally wearing two sacred mountains, Daiyu and Yuanao, were caught by the giants of Longboguo, so they lost their dependence and drifted to the North Pole and sank into the sea. This sudden disaster left only three of the five mountains in the world, namely Fang Lake, Yingzhou and Penglai.

The gods in the mountains were also frightened. I don't know when Longbo will come to catch Ao Bai again, and even the remaining three mountains can't be saved. The Emperor of Heaven also knows about it. The Emperor of Heaven was very angry, and immediately used his divine power to shrink the territory of Longbo State to make it narrow, and to shrink the body of Longbo people to make it short.

It is said that by the time Fuxi Shennong arrived, the height of the Longbo people was still tens of feet, and the Longbo people no longer had the divine power to go to the market. Finally, it preserved three sacred mountains and nine octopus at sea, and became a source of ancient myths and novels about ghosts and gods in China. As for the fairy tales of Guanyin Bodhisattva in the South China Sea, such as the fish falling into the water and crossing the sea in Donghai Town, more and more people are circulating.

In the past, when science was underdeveloped, people often used the power of God to explain the causes of earthquakes. In China, there is a folk legend. They say there is a big octopus living underground. After a long time, the big octopus wants to turn over. As soon as the big octopus turns over, the earth will tremble. It is ridiculous to analyze this legend from the perspective of modern people. Countries that have this statement are

For example, Poseidon was the god of earthquakes in ancient Greek mythology, and there is also a saying in South America that the giant who supported the world moved to cause earthquakes. In ancient Japan, it was believed that there lived a big catfish under the island of Japan. Once the catfish is unhappy, as long as the tail is swept away, there will be an earthquake in Japan. In addition, there are legends about animals living underground in Egypt and India.

In classical novels, the four princes of Ryukyu Kingdom, also known as Aoyu, were 10 feet tall, making a long-handled melon hammer capable of fighting well, and later became Japanese Xu. They should ask the army to rescue Wang from their good friend Tieguan Taoist, because they were deceived by their defected brothers Wang Jiulong and Wang Jiuhu, and were attacked and killed.