13 fish spines called bream!
Only 13 half-fish spines are Wuchang fish.
If you don't pay attention, you really can't see that it's 13 half-thorns! Take a closer look at the half-thorn where the chopsticks are pointing! Compare the two pictures!
Wuchang fish is a species of bream, also known as Tuantou bream. The body shape is flattened, weighs about one pound or two or three pounds, and the flesh is tender and white, rich in protein and fat. It is a valuable freshwater fish dish.
And because of the modern Mao Zedong's phrase "only drink the water of the Yangtze River, and eat Wuchang fish", Wuchang fish is more famous.
Wuchang fish (Bluntnose black beam), commonly known as tuantou bream, shrunken bream. According to the "Chronicle of Wuchang County", the bream, that is, the bream, also known as the shrunken bream, produced Fankou A world. It is a place where the water is swirling, the deep pool is bottomless, the fisherman put it in the catch, and this is a picture album of fat and beautiful Wuchang fish (15 photos), and Yu is also better than other places. At the same time, those who are "scaled white and have no black membrane in the abdomen are true." ”
Echeng (present-day Ezhou City) was called Wuchang in ancient times, and there was a lake with a surface of 600,000 mu in the southwest, called Liangzi Lake. Liangzi Lake grass abundant fish beauty. Its crossing to the river is Fankou. Here the water potential is swirling, and there are large and small returns. "Those who are in Fankou are known as Dahui, and those who are under the fishing platform are known as Xiaohui" (Wuchang County Chronicle). The Tang Dynasty's Yuan Jie has a song: "Fankou wants to flow east, the great river wants to come north, Fankou should be its south, and this is the Great Hui." Back to the middle of the fish is good to swim, back to the middle of the more about the hook. If you want to be a fisherman, you will eventually get what you want. The song says: "Back to the fish", that is, Wuchang fish. It can be seen that Wuchang fish like to live in the backflow.
In 1965, Wuhan Catering Company invited famous chefs to officially name Wuchang fish as a local dish at the Wuchang Great China Restaurant.
And inherit and carry forward the cooking skills of successive generations of famous chefs, with Hubei's local specialties as the ingredients, appropriately matched with precious seafood products, to produce a variety of different flavor types, brilliant colors, strong flavor of fresh juice, steamed, braised, braised, oil stewed, flower brewing, dry sauté are beautiful, especially steaming is better. Wuchang fish is warm and sweet, has the effect of replenishing deficiency, benefiting the spleen, nourishing blood, dispelling wind, and strengthening the stomach; it can prevent anemia, hypoglycemia, hypertension and arteriosclerosis and other diseases.
Authentic Wuchang fish has only 13 half-fish spines. It is estimated that this strange feature is only known to people in Hubei Ezhou. Because the hometown of Wuchang fish is Ezhou. The fish with 13 fish bones is called bream, and only 13 fish with half a fish spine are Wuchang fish.
Wuchang fish have been moved to all parts of the country for rearing. What are the characteristics of Wuchang fish? As a bream, it is similar in shape to the periwinkle and the triangular bream, but has different habits. Evergreen bats and triangular bream eat omnivorous rice, while Wuchang fish feed mainly on herbies. It prefers bitter grass and rotifer black algae, while the bitter grass and rotifer black algae in the Liangzi Lake area and Fankou Harbor are very abundant. Morphologically and physiologically, The Head of the Wuchang Fish is round, the back is thick, the flesh is thin, the sides are diamond-shaped, the mouth is wide, the dorsal fin is short, the tail stalk is high, and there are fourteen ribs on each side, one more than other bream.