Written by | Xu Wen
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Poyang Lake is vast and vast, not only beautiful scenery, but also a huge freshwater fish reservoir.
Poyang Lake has a natural fish farm specializing in the cultivation of organic fish, which is not the same as the traditional fishing ground, the fish here follow the principle of "human stocking", once the selected fish enter the lake, they will no longer be fed any artificial feed, all rely on the natural bait in the lake to grow.
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The lake is rich in aquatic grass, abundant in bait and mild in water, which is not only a good place for lake-type fish to inhabit, reproduce and fatten, but also an ideal place for some shallow sea fish to enter the lake to spawn and suo erbium.
There are more than 100 kinds of fish in the lake, among which the valuable products with high economic value and rich nutritional value are the poyang lake silver fish.
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Silver fish are transparent, flat head, large mouth, sharp teeth, dorsal fin and 1 fat fin each. The silver fish is shaped like a jade hairpin, white and transparent, the meat is tender, and the meat taste is exceptionally fresh.
Poyang Lake silverfish is a freshwater silver fish, put in the mouth to bite, if the bite out of the salty taste, it must not be Poyang Lake silver fish.
Since ancient times, the silver fish in Poyang Lake has been a delicacy on people's tables.
According to the local chronicle of Poyang County, since the Tang Dynasty, every year more than 100 kilograms of dried silver fish in Poyang Lake have been paid to the emperor. Silver fish meat is delicious and fresh, rich in nutrition, beneficial to the spleen, lungs, kidneys, deficiency, yang, yin and other effects, is a superior nourishing tonic.
In ancient times, silver fish was also known as the remnant fish, also known as the white small. Du Fu, a great poet of the Tang Dynasty, once had a poem "Bai Xiao" that said: "White small groups are divided into lives, and natural two-inch fish." Finely dipped water tribes, customs as garden vegetables. People are in a mess of silver flowers, pouring boxes of snow flakes. "What is the righteousness of the egg that is produced," the poem is written very vividly.
The silverfish in Poyang Lake are different from the silver fish in Taihu Lake and other places.
Poyang Lake silverfish belong to the sedentary type, not the return type, so the taste is particularly delicious.
Every autumn and October, fishermen use dense nets to sail in the lake and run with the wind.
Fishermen often dry fresh silver fish into dried silver fish, if you catch good weather, the dried silver fish is as white as a radish shredded, and the silver fish dried on cloudy days will turn yellow.
Although the color changes, their nutritional value remains unchanged.
Dried silver fish has a protein content of 72.1% and a fat content of 13%. Each 100 grams of silver fish also contains lysine 4820 mg, methionine 2308 mg, isoleucine 4176 mg, valine 4396 mg, threonine 6652 mg, so rich in amino acids, is rare in other fish species. Each 100 grams of silver fish can supply 407 kcal of calories, almost 5-6 times that of ordinary edible fish; its calcium content is as high as 761 mg, which is the highest in the group.
Dried silver fish is easy to foam hair, the meat is soft, not suitable for stir-frying, but scrambled eggs, steamed vegetables are OK, the most suitable of course is to make soup. In the Yuan Dynasty," the "Daily Materia Medica" explained that silver fish "is wide in the stomach, and ginger is a good soup."
Local traditional practice, silver fish soaked hair after filtering water, add some rice wine to fishy, fat and lean minced meat fried, add a small amount of ginger shredded and silver fish boiled after hooking, sprinkle coriander, green onion, add some sesame oil. The preparation is simple, but it is exceptionally delicious.
This delicacy is a common hometown dish for people around Poyang Lake, but it is a great delicacy for travelers who come to visit.
Poyang Lake dried silver fish can be made into a variety of cuisines, quite popular with tourists. Whenever a group of travelers visit near Poyang Lake, a large bag of dried silver fish will flow out.
Duchang County is considered to be a "big county that exports dried silver fish from Poyang Lake".
Because the silver fish of Poyang Lake are mainly distributed in Nanfeng, Qianxi, Wanhu, Xiyuan, Zhouxi and other townships in Duchang County, such as Zhichi Lake, Puji Lake and Shipai Lake. In the past, the county could catch a large number of silver fish in Poyang Lake every year, and more than 100,000 catties of dried products were dried. In the early 1980s, the output of dry products reached 160,000 catties.
However, in recent years, due to the indiscriminate fishing of cool fish and even the use of the power grid to hit fish, the number of silverfish in the lake has dropped sharply.
Coupled with the reclamation and the increasing amount of sewage discharged into the lake, the breeding and growth environment of silver fish has gradually deteriorated, and the production of dried silver fish has only a few thousand catties so far. Assuming that the status quo is maintained and allowed to develop, then the silverfish will face a very serious existential crisis.
Imagine that years later, if the silver fish of Poyang Lake disappears into human vision, will the former travelers still remember this Ganpo delicacy?