Chapter 66 salmon fish

A friend drove me from West Vancouver to North Vancouver, passed a bridge, stopped specially, and walked to the bridge to watch the river. The river water was no different, clear and leisurely passing through the woods. "When you look at it in autumn, the whole river turns red, so the locals also call it Blood River." My friend said. It turned out that every September, the frogfish in the sea began to swim up the river, struggling to swim to the upper reaches of the river to lay eggs.The baby fish's head is emerald green, its back is blue-gray, and its belly is silver-white. However, when it goes upstream during the spawning season, its whole body will turn red, and it will turn redder and redder, until it is as red as a maple leaf falling in autumn.

In the process of crowding upstream, some furrow fish will die halfway through exhaustion; some will have their skin cracked, revealing blood-red flesh; some will be eaten by birds and beasts along the way; only a very small number of them can reach the upstream to lay eggs . A friend who believes in Buddhism said that it was the first time he went to the river to watch fresh fish swim back. Seeing the tragic and intense scene and seeing the color of maple stained with blood, he couldn't help but was moved to tears. On the bridge deck with clear river water, it seems that the shocking scene at that time can still be seen.

Why do baby fish swim upstream from the sea?So far, scientists have not been able to fully unravel the mystery. However, my friend has a romantic and emotional saying. He said: "The baby fish is returning to its hometown, so the border fish can also be said to be a returning fish." The frogfish is born in the water source of the river. Although they can live freely in the sea, they always swim back to their hometown with all their strength in the last season, lay eggs in fresh water, and even die.The newborn salamanders do not have enough food in the river, so when they are born, they grow up on the corpses of their parents.

My friend said, "It's a pity that you didn't come to Vancouver in autumn, otherwise you would have seen the magnificent scene." Although I couldn't see the magnificent scene, I felt like I was there in person just by imagining it. Not just fish!All sentient beings in the world can't help but have a complex emotion for their hometown, calling for the "return" of all living beings in a certain time and space, but few sentient beings have chosen such a heroic, regretless and beautiful way like the frog fish. We can more or less see our own faces in the river that returns to our hometown in Salamander!