五彩缤纷、娇姿艳体、千姿百态的金鱼，成为世界性的观赏鱼，它被视为陶冶情操的活的艺术品，受到了世界各地人士的喜爱历代诗人、画家常常以金鱼为题材，吟诗作画鱼代表着吉祥，金鱼象征着金有余（鱼），所以历代过农历年时，以金鱼、鲤鱼为题材的年画、剪纸，是倍受人们欢迎的年货之一，家中挂上金鱼年画，养着一缸锦鳞闪闪的金鱼，贴上大红对联，昭示着新的一年吉庆有余（鱼）国内外称之为金鳞仙子、水中牡丹、东方圣鱼，金鱼可谓是我国传统文化宝库中一颗璀璨的明珠Colorful, Jiao Zi Yan body, different styles of goldfish, a global ornamental fish, it was seen as mold your living works of art, being loved by people around the world. Poets, painters often goldfish theme, poetry and painting. Fish represents good fortune, a symbol of gold more than goldfish (fish), so successive Lunar New year to goldfish, carp theme of paintings, paper cutting, is one of the oft-popular New Year shopping, goldfish paintings hanging at home, keep with a cylinder Jinlin flashing goldfish, labeled red couplets, shows the beginning of the new year, more than luck and (fish). Domestic and international call Jinlin fairy, water, peony, Oriental Holy fish, goldfish can be described as a treasure house of Chinese traditional culture, a shining pearl.鱼类和人类的关系甚为密切，早在石器时代，人们就捕捉鱼类作为食物。
在距今 3200多年前，中国已有了养鱼的记录（根据殷墟出土甲骨卜辞），由于长期的捕鱼、养鱼，同鱼类接触的机会颇多，所以很容易发现在野生鱼类中发生变异的种类，在野生鲫鱼群中偶然出现金色或红色的鲫鱼，早在两千年前的古书《山海经》中就有红色鲫鱼的记载人们对这种现象有一定的神秘感，把这类鲫鱼放入放生池中（即池塘中养殖），当时人们把金色或红色的鱼类统称为"金鱼"，这就是培育金鱼的开始The relationship between fish and humans are very close, back in the Stone Age, people catch fish as food. In 3200 years ago, China already had a fish of record (based on turtle shells and bones unearthed in Yin Ruins), because of long-term fishing, fish, fish with the opportunity to contact a lot, so it is easy to find in the wild fish types of mutations in wild carp in the occasional group of golden or red carp, as early as 2000 years ago, ancient books, "Shan Hai Jing" in the records of people have red crucian carp have some of this mysterious phenomenon, the type of carp into the pond and released (ie pond culture), when it was the golden or red fish collectively known as the "goldfish" This is the start of training goldfish.追溯金鱼历史Trace the history of goldfish我国伟大的生物学家、医学家，明朝的李时珍在他的《本草纲目》(1578)中对金鱼曾有记载.晋朝在公元 265～420 年间，这是现存资料中记录发现红色鱼的最早年代。
赤鳞鱼”即红色鱼，但是否就是红黄色金鲫鱼，还难以确定至此可见，金鱼原有 4 种，只有金鲫耐久从金鲫耐久这一事实来判断、晋朝桓冲在庐山湖中见到的赤鳞鱼，恐怕就是野生的红黄色金鲫鱼其实赤鳞鱼在未被人们发现之前早已存在于自然界了，人们才能偶然见到它，赤鳞鱼的出现可能比晋朝还要早些以李时珍记载的史料为依据，可以认为金鱼起源于野生的红黄色金鲫鱼应该追溯到晋朝以前，至今已有 1600～1700 年的历史了China's great biologists, medical scientists, Ming Li Shi Zhen, in his "Compendium of Materia Medica" (1578) had recorded on goldfish. Jin Dynasty in AD 265 ~ 420 years, this is the existing data in the earliest record found in red fish years. "Red scaly fish" that red fish, but it is red, yellow and gold carp, it is difficult to determine. Thus we can see that the original four kinds of goldfish, golden carp only durable. Durable gold carp from the fact that to judge, Chong Jin Chaohuan seen in the Red Lake Lushan, fish scales, I am afraid that is the wild red and yellow gold carp. In fact, red scaly fish are not found to already exist in nature before, people can occasionally see it, the appearance of red scaly fish may be even earlier than the Jin dynasty. By Li Shi Zhen recorded based on historical data, that the goldfish originated in wild red and yellow gold before the fish go back to the Jin dynasty, has been 1600 to 1700 years old.金鲫鱼在自然界比较少见，但仍然能遇到。
在 1981 年 5 月份，笔者曾在宁夏西吉县红耀公社赤土岔大队赤土岔大水堰和西吉县城关公社夏家大队水堰的调查中，发现有红色、白色、蓝色和红白相间的彩色鲫鱼这些彩鲫鱼与普通鲫鱼体形完全相同，只是体色有所差异《人民日报》还以农业珍闻的形式作了报道经我们研究证实，它与野生鲫鱼是同一物种，是由鲫鱼的体色发生变化而来的西吉彩鲫，只不过是鲫鱼的一个变种而已由此可见，自然界中至今仍然有各种颜色的鲫鱼存在Gold carp relatively rare in nature, but still encountered. In May 1981, the author had in south Ningxia Red Yao commune brigade terracotta terracotta fork fork flood weirs and Xia Xiji County, commune brigade Weir survey found that red, white, blue and red white color crucian carp. The body color crucian carp and common carp are identical, but differ in color. "People's Daily" also in the form of agricultural tidbits were reported. Confirmed by our study, it is the same species of wild carp, crucian carp's body by the color change from the Xiji color crucian carp, crucian carp is just a variant of it. This shows that nature still has a variety of colors of the fish there.我国古书中除记载晋朝桓冲在庐山见湖中有赤鳞鱼外，还有其他关于野生红黄色鲫鱼的记载。
Chinese ancient books, in addition to records Jinchao Huan Lu see red in Red Lake in the scales of fish, there are other wild red and yellow carp on the record. 从这些史料中可以证明，自晋朝发现赤鳞鱼以后，还不断有人在我国安徽、陕西和浙江等地见到野生的红黄色的鲫鱼这类鲫鱼生活在江、河、湖、池塘、泉水和山洞等淡水水域中，与野生鲫鱼同处于一样的自然环境中From these historical data to prove, since the Jin dynasty was found after the red fish scales, but also keep people in China, Anhui, Shaanxi and Zhejiang, seeing the red and yellow wild carp. Such carp live in rivers, lakes, ponds, springs and caves and other fresh waters, and wild carp are the same as with the natural environment.“金鲫”一词在我国古书中是很常见的。
就是到了近代，浙江省的嘉兴、杭州和华北等地的人民群众仍然把鲫鱼称为金鲫鱼或野金鱼又一次说明，金鱼发现于我国的晋朝，它是由野生红黄色金鲫鱼演变而来的，它的祖先就是野生鲫鱼"Golden carp" in ancient books in China is very common. Is to the modern, Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province, Hangzhou, and north C。