Pictographic Chinese Calligraphy (29) Fish Jump over the Dragon Gate - 鲤鱼跳龙门

There is a famous Chinese proverb: Carps Jump over the Dragon Gate, which means if the carps jumped over the dragon gate, they would become a dragon, implying success. So many Chinese people stick the painting of Carps jumping over the dragon gate on windows or doors in the new year eve to hope that they would succeed next year.

Could we create a calligraphy artwork similar to the one above with all characters? Yes.

Let's see what characters are involved in the artwork.

Door of shell bone script

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Water of shell bone script

Fish of shell bone script

Fish of small seal script

Fish of clerical script (~ 2000 years ago - current)

Fish of standard script  (~ 1700 years ago - current), but the following is simplified character, ~ 70 years ago.

Here is my artwork: Fish jump over the Gate

When the fish jump up from the lower left over the gate to fall down on the lower right, the script changes from the oldest shell bone script on the lower left to the small seal script on the upper left to the clerical script on the upper right, and finally to standard script (simplified) on the lower right. It is a more than 3000 years across,  the Chinese culture has been connected and continuous.