Recorded in the text
A nocturnal flying fish shaped like a carp, travelling between the Western and Eastern Seas; the text also records its call, taste, imagined dietary effect and harvest omen.
Wenyaoyu's most narrative image is its passage between the Western and Eastern Seas, flying at night. This migration across seas is joined to the omen of a great harvest, linking night sky, water and agricultural hope in one ancient imaginative system.
Reading boundary: taste, dietary effect, and abundance are recorded ancient claims and omens—not modern nutrition, medical advice, or a causal forecast.
