Fish with lotus is another cultural symbol indicating the unity of earth and the sky, male and female. "Fish playing around 
lotus;" "Fish biting lotus" are favorite paper-cuts for Chinese New Year and wedding ceremonies. It is known to all in China that fish stands for male and the polyspermic lotus for female, but few knew the difference between "Fish playing around lotus" and "Fish biting lotus." "Fish playing around lotus" is fish playing above the water, meaning "dating;" but "Fish biting lotus" has the fish under the water to bite the lotus stem, which is "getting married." Different combinations of two images actually have a strict boundary line in implications. Obviously, at each stage from dating, getting married to having kids, there is a corresponding art arrangement to convey it.
