Golden Jade Fish, also known as Golden Dragon Jade Fish, Sound Chicken, Fish, Sound Fast, is quite popular among ancient literati in Jiangnan cuisine, and its sentiment can be seen from the name of this gold and jade wrap.
"Fish" brought a fish, naturally refers to the dish taken from fish meat, there is a fish called salmon in the world, but it is not the fish of the golden fish.
In ancient times, "鲙" was also the same as "脍", such as the golden jade 脍里, "脍" refers to the use of a knife to cut fish and meat into fine wires, "jade" to show its exquisite plate, such as jade elegance, such as jade color, such as jade run. The so-called golden mole, "齑" has the meaning of fine and broken, cooking refers to the food cut into fine powders, here as an ingredient, that is, called "mole", "golden" refers to the color of the ingredients golden.
But having said all that, what kind of meat is cut into fine pieces? The Northern Wei Jia Sixun's Qi Min Zhi Shu is the first work in history to have the term "golden fish and jade fish", although it does not name the perch, but in the section "Eight And The Dragon", Jia Sixun introduces the practice of the golden mound in detail, sharing seven ingredients: garlic, ginger, salt, white plum, orange peel, cooked chestnut meat and japonica rice. It can be seen that at that time, all those who used silver and white fish fillets and golden yellow were "golden fish and jade fish".
Until Du Bao's "Records of the Great Cause", it was said: "For six years, Wu County offered the Songjiang perch dry fish.
The meat of sea bass is as white as snow and not fishy. The so-called golden jade, the taste of the southeast is also good. "At this point, we are talking about Wu County sea bass. Later, the Taiping Guangji, Sui tang jia dialect, etc. were all the same, but it can be known that after a period of time, the golden fish was solidified into a rather Jiangnan flavor dish made of sea bass as a raw material, accompanied by golden yellow fish, and the term "golden fish" also became the exclusive name of the dish.
Later, the wind of fish and fish faded, and the golden fish and jade fish also began to refer to food in general, frequently appearing in literati poetry, as a gastronomic image to the fullest interest, but still mostly metaphors for fish and meat, gold and meat are not the same.
Tang Dynasty poet Wang Changling's "Sending Cheng Six" has clouds: "Blue fish and snow fall on the orange fish." "With green fish falling like snow "orange", showing the poetry of the literati,
Here, "orange" refers to the flesh of orange oranges, which coincides with "golden teeth". In addition, there is a poem by Huang Tingjian," "Xie Rongxu Hui Xian Crucian Carp": "The moth fang looks at the gold as crumbs, and the plates have seen piles of snow." Lu You's poem "Summer": "I did not say that I piled up jade and jade, and looked at the mortar pounding gold mushroom." "More detailed about the production process of "orange", the orange meat is placed in the mortar and mashed. At this time, the orange is like gold, the fish is like jade, the two are mixed together, the yellow is white, quite eye-catching, it is actually "golden jade fish" also. In addition to the "orange dragon", there is also the "chrysanthemum", which is one of the most favorite symbols of high purity of the ancient literati, and the great poet Qu Yuan was the first to use chrysanthemums as material, Wei Jinfangzhi.
Today's "golden mackerel" is mostly imitation, with mandarin fish as the main ingredient, orange petals as the motif, plus egg whites, wet starch mixed with the syrup, it is also a delicious taste.