Today (December 21st) is the winter solstice of the twenty-four solar terms, and it is also the best time to dry the fish (fish, sound xiang, three sounds). At this time, more than 800 acres of fish and fish drying field in Songmen Town, Wenling City, Taizhou, Zhejiang Province, has become the most beautiful scenery in winter.
Early in the morning, in the Dongfeng Gate Processing Park in Songmen Town, Wenling City, hundreds of aquatic product processors were taking the washed cuttlefish, rice fish and eel to the drying field and putting them on rows of bamboo to dry. Fish mackerel emits a seductive fresh fragrance under the sun.
Fish and fish processing household Lin Qiaoming: The north wind day sunburns the fish and fish, dry, the quality is good, the taste is good, and the fragrance is fragrant.
It is understood that the sunny weather after the winter solstice is most suitable for drying fish and fish, and generally two or three days of fish and fish can be dried. These cuttlefish, eels, octopus, yellow croakers and striped fish are also one of the local delicacies because of their good quality and delicious taste.
Chen Xinwei, President of The White Carp Professional Cooperative Association in Songmen Town, Wenling City: These fish are our specialties of Taizhou, so we locals like to give fish and fish as gifts to relatives and friends.
According to reports, at present, Wenling Songmen Town has 2 professional cooperatives for fish and fish processing, 2 well-known trademarks in China, more than 6,000 processing people, and the annual sales of fish and fish fish have reached 2 billion yuan. This industry has also become an important source of economic income for local residents. (CCTV reporter Yang Junwei)
(Edited by Liu Yang)