Yellow River carp and Songjiang perch, Xingkai Lake bass, Songhua River mandarin fish are jointly known as China's four major freshwater fish, and the Yellow River carp is ranked first among the four famous fish, which is in stark contrast to the Yellow River water with a lot of sediment content.
Since ancient times, there is a "Luo li yi bream, as expensive as cattle and sheep" reputation, the Yellow River flows through Henan Kaifeng is a sweet and sour soft boiled fish baked noodles of the millennium famous dish, the status of the noble as the first of Yu cuisine, in 1900 Qing Dynasty Cixi Empress Dowager and the Guangxu Emperor in order to escape the Eight-Nation Alliance rushed to the direction of Shaanxi, along the way the boats and cars are tired, tired naturally needless to say, even eating and drinking and the palace can not be compared. Naturally, there is no appetite along the way.
However, when passing through Kaifeng Province, the local special dish yellow river carp roast noodles were specially fired, which greatly amazed Cixi and the Guangxu Emperor, and even made a plaque to give to the local people to praise the delicious taste of the Yellow River carp. Cixi Guangxu, who is accustomed to eating all kinds of mountain treasures and seafood, can be admired to the extent of sending plaques, and the Yellow River carp really has its own unique charm.
In the movie "1942", a carp baked noodles, Yanjin method is even more vivid to people who have watched this movie, people who have seen this paragraph are all "fragrant" carp baked noodles in the film. The movie has been released for many years, and to this day, as long as the movie "1942" is mentioned, most people must first think of "carp baked noodles, Yanjin method"!
The raw materials for this sweet and sour soft fish baking noodles are selected from the pure wild carp grown in the Yellow River, and I can't help but have a question when I see it here, such as Xingkai Lake, Songhua River and other natural rivers and lakes, the water quality is clear, sparkling, the water grass is abundant, the products are rich, and it is reasonable to grow delicious fish.
The Yellow River is turbulent, the water quality is even more muddy, most of the river basin is turbid and bottomless, why are the fish that grow fat, expensive and delicious? Even the classic carp dish can even be ranked first among the four famous fish in China with a territory of 9.6 million square kilometers, a territorial sea of 3 million square kilometers, mountains, rivers, lakes and seas and other natural features. Don't the carp grown in this environment have an earthy smell?
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > To answer this question, let's first look at the characteristics of fish in the Yellow River</h1>
Speaking of carp, many people's first impression is that the meaty wood, earthy taste, not delicious, especially the coastal people who are accustomed to eating fresh and tender marine fish are scornful of carp in the interior.
Of course, this is not only a unique scene in China, in the United States, the Asian carp flooded to the entire lake as if boiling, weighing dozens of pounds of large carp tumbling up, even can overturn the fishing boat, and the local fishermen will not pick up their own jumping into the fishing boat of the big carp, but will throw it away, the reason is that the Americans hate the big carp soil smell is too heavy.
But the big carp that grows in the muddy Yellow River is diametrically opposed.
The Yellow River carp, also known as the Yellow River golden-winged carp, is covered in golden scales and has a well-proportioned body, and has already defeated other ordinary carp in appearance.
In terms of meat quality, the carp growing up in the mud and sand of the Yellow River not only has no earthy smell, but the meat is tender and tender, with a natural fragrance.
People who like to eat fish know that once there is a kind of fish that is tender and tender, or the taste is full of aroma, it can become the selling point of this fish, like the Yellow River carp set beautiful form, tender meat, fragrant fish is really a handful, coupled with the local classic firing method that has been passed down for thousands of years, naturally let the Empress Dowager Cixi who eats all the world's cuisine are amazed.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > why can the Yellow River, which is full of sediment, grow such excellent carp? </h1>
The Yellow River originated from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, from Shandong Province into the Bohai Sea, the total length of nearly 5500 kilometers, tens of millions of years, the Yellow River impact out of the plains, irrigation up the fertile wilderness, gave birth to one of the earliest civilizations of the Chinese nation, is the Chinese nation recognized as the mother river.
In ancient times, the Loess Plateau through which the Yellow River flowed was not as barren as it is now, but was covered with dense forests, and the Yellow River was as clear as other river basins.
By more than 2,000 years ago, people's activity area is getting bigger and bigger, in order to produce and live, people gradually cut down the forest trees through the area through which the Yellow River flows, because the north is not as rainy as the humid south, once the forest is seriously damaged, it is quite difficult to recover naturally, coupled with the sandstorm entrained by the northwest wind in the north all year round, the location of the Loess Plateau is gradually covered by sediment, forming a landform status quo that is now extremely prone to soil erosion.
Time came to the Tang Dynasty, people gradually found that the Yellow River in more and more sediment, the river water is turbid, and for a long time, so word of mouth, the name of the Yellow River has also been passed down.
When you see the words "silt" and "turbidity", what is the first thing that comes to your mind?
The answer is "earthy smell"
Indeed, for coastal people who like to eat tender marine fish, the freshwater fish in the interior have a big smell and a woody flesh, which is naturally full of earthy taste for carp that grows up in the "mud soup" of the Yellow River, right?
The opposite is true. There are several reasons for this:
First of all, the Yellow River water is mixed with soil from thousands of kilometers of watershed along the upstream coast, rich in calcium and phosphorus and other trace elements, providing the best natural environment for the growth of aquatic plants in the Yellow River, so it looks turbid, in fact, it is abundant water grass, rich in nutrients, and the Yellow River carp feeds on this, which is the material basis for the delicious yellow river carp.
The second reason is that although the water of the Yellow River is full of sediment and turbidity, it is fundamentally different from the pollution of the river, on the contrary, the water quality of the Yellow River is still very good. The carp in the Yellow River has four nostrils, two more nostrils than ordinary carp, which can be more adapted to the water of the Yellow River with a lot of sediment, and the gills can also naturally filter out the sediment.
Third, the turbid river water only obscures the view of the fish, but the fish in the Yellow River do not all rely on the line of sight, but rely more on the nose's sense of smell, whiskers and other organs to perceive the outside world, such as by analyzing the amino acids in the water to perceive the location of the water environment and food.
The fourth reason is that the Yellow River is turbulent, the natural environment is worse than the pond, and the "amount of movement" of wild carp in this environment is naturally much larger, resulting in a beautiful and unique posture of wild carp.
And the Yellow River is located in the north, the winter is cold, carp will enter a similar dormant slow growth state, the growth cycle is long, and wild carp do not eat feed, the unique natural environment makes the Yellow River carp protein, calcium and phosphorus and other trace elements more, natural fish meat is more tender.
In summary, it is precisely because of the unique natural environment of the Yellow River that the wild carp has formed a fresh and tender taste, which is also the first of the four famous fish in China with 9.6 million square kilometers of land, 3 million square kilometers of territorial water, and rich landscapes in mountains, rivers, lakes and seas. On the other hand, we must protect the ecological environment of the Yellow River, avoid overfishing, and let the top wild fish of the Yellow River remain in the Yellow River for a long time to avoid the crisis of extinction.