Anyuan Town, Ninghua County, is located in the northwestern mountains of Fujian, is the source of the Minjiang River, the natural environment without industrial pollution, excellent water quality, its unique natural environment has created its rice flower fish is different from any other region of the excellent.
Since ancient times, rice and fish has been a major industry for local farmers in Anyuan Town to increase income, as early as the 1980s, there were foreign friends who came to Anyuan Town Fengping, Likeng, Huangtang and other major rice and fish farming farmland to visit and investigate. However, because of the curiosity and uniqueness of the rice and flower fish breeding conditions, coupled with the fact that farmers have always been scattered and stocked, in recent years, because of the adjustment of the industrial structure of the farmland, the outflow of young labor, etc., the famous Anyuan rice and flower fish is on the verge of extinction, and there are even valuable fish in the local area.
"Rice flower fish" refers specifically to the whole ecological carp that grows naturally in the rice field and is fed without artificial feed hormones, so it is also called "grass bud carp". Grass bud carp mainly eats aquatic weeds in rice fields, tiny organisms in rice fields, rice ears, rice flowers, etc. When the rice blossoms, it is the time when the fish grow the fastest. At this time, it is the best growth period for the fish to come out and eat the rice flowers that fall on the surface of the water. When the rice flowers are exhausted and become plump ears of rice, the fish will jump out of the water to peck at the low-hanging ears of rice, when the large carp has weighed 5-8 or more, which is also the best time to harvest (commonly known as 'hitting the water').
Fish that have eaten rice flowers have a high nutritional content, especially the protein content is 3-5 times that of ordinary fish. The flesh of rice flower fish is more tender than that of artificially farmed carp, and even the wild carp of the creek river, and the soup is milky white and full of aroma. Therefore, the market price of rice flower fresh fish is 4-5 times more expensive than ordinary carp, and dried rice flower fish sold to 180 yuan a catty is in short supply.
Dried rice and fish are handmade