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China's big name is the "four big fish": grass carp, silver carp and male fish, and what is the other one?
Fish is a widely farmed animal in China, only because it is also a very important ingredient. When guests come to the house, or it is a New Year's festival, the dish of fish and meat is basically indispensable on the table.
China's fish resources are also relatively rich, of which the longest breeding history, the widest range of aquaculture, and the most well-known is the "four big fish", they can be said to be the four kinds of freshwater fish that are well-known.
Do you know which four kinds of fish the famous four fish are? It is estimated that there are not many people who can say all the right, most people can only say grass carp, silver carp and male fish, and what is the other one?
Introduction to the "Four Big Fish"
Grass carp
When it comes to freshwater fish, the grass carp is the most well-known fish, it has almost become synonymous with fish, and the average person mentions fish, and will think of grass carp first.
Grass carp, however, is not a veritable fish that specializes in grazing. It can be said that the meat vegetarians do not refuse, and this fish also likes to eat its own feces. This is mainly because the digestive system of grass carp is not developed enough, and the aquatic plants eaten into it are excreted without being digested and absorbed. Therefore, it is also necessary to eat it again, and then excrete it after the second digestion.
However, this will not affect the freshness of grass carp, this fish does not have small spines, are large thorns, and the meat is tight, delicious, there is no muddy smell, so there are still more fans.
silver carp
Silver carp, also known as silver carp, is now far less well received in the market and less popular. In the past, it was an indispensable "hard dish" when holding banquets in rural areas.
But now silver carp has almost been reduced to "cheap fish". Especially in the past ten years, with the improvement of living standards, there are still a large number of marine fish in the market is also more common, and fewer and fewer people like to eat silver carp.
However, although the price of silver carp is cheap, farmers like to raise silver carp, and when they raise fish, they will keep some silver carp. This is not only because silver carp grow fast, are extensively managed and the cost of farming is low.
And silver carp is also a "scavenger" in the water, which can eat plankton in the water and play a role in cleaning the water quality. And the farmed silver carp is now basically processed into surimi products such as fish balls, and the economic benefits are also good.
Male fish
This is the name of the fathead fish in Hunan, its scientific name is the flower carp, and in ancient times it was called bighead carp. It looks very similar to the white silver carp, but its head is much larger, and there are more black spots on the body, which looks white and white, hence the name silver carp.
The male is also a filter-feeding fish that feeds mainly on plankton. And this fish grows fast, long life, so the size is also very large, the past seventy or eighty pounds of silver carp is also very common, this fish can grow up to more than 150 pounds.
Because the most delicious part of the male fish is the head, there is a famous dish in Hunan - chopped pepper fish head, which is made of male fish head. And in order to avoid the waste of ingredients, in recent years, a kind of silver carp with a long head and no body has been cultivated, which is a bone fish.
The fish's body is largely undeveloped, its head is large, and it looks like a deformed fish, but the price is much more expensive than the silver carp, and it has been large-scale farming in the south for many years.
herring
Why do many people now mention the four big fish, and they will ignore the blue fish? Only because this fish is now very rare, there are very few people who breed it. There are many young people who don't even know the bluefish and often think of it as grass carp.
The bluefish does look a lot like grass carp, but the body color is a little darker. But it is a ferocious carnivorous fish, and the food it eats is also very special, it is a level 10 lover of snails, specializing in eating snails, river mussels and other creatures with hard shells, eating them is like humans nibbling on melon seeds, very easy.
In the past, the blue fish was the first of the four major fish, one is that it is very large, can grow to hundreds of pounds, and there are nicknames of "ghost fish" and "fish for life" in the folk. Second, the flesh of this fish is very delicious, and it is known as "freshwater fish on the top".
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Some people, ignoring the blue fish, often mistake the two kinds of carp or crucian carp as four big fish.
The carp does have a long history of farming in China, and it also has the title of "freshwater fish king", but it is not one of the four major fish.
It may have a lot to do with the fact that southerners do not like to eat carp, and in most parts of the south, carp is not eaten, and many places still use it as a sacrifice during sacrifice, so it is generally not eaten.
Moreover, the folk believe that carp is a hair product, and eating it is easy to cause some "old problems", so carp is not eaten in most parts of the south. And its flesh is relatively loose, the fish has many spines, and most of them are small thorns, which is very troublesome to eat.
So why aren't crucian carp either? This fish is widely distributed, and the meat quality is also very delicious, especially the crucian carp soup is very delicious.
In this regard, Xiao Mao believes that it is more related to the shortcomings of crucian carp itself. Although crucian carp is widely distributed and can survive in basic waters, this fish grows too slowly, generally two or three years old, it will grow to about three or two, and even half a pound is very rare. Not to mention the slow growth, and the crucian carp has no meat, and there are many fish bones.
It is precisely because of these shortcomings of crucian carp that it has no connection with the "four big fish"!
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However, crucian carp is a general term for the four kinds of fish with a wide range of culture and a large number of people eating in ancient times, and in today's era, the eating habits have also undergone great changes.
Like crucian carp, blue fish eating crowd is much less, the ancients said that the four big fish in the market appearance rate can be much lower, so in today's if you want to choose the four big fish, it is estimated that there will be new changes. At least in my opinion, the bluefish should not be listed anymore.
Friends, what four kinds of fish do you think the current "four big fish" should be? Welcome to leave a message to discuss!