Boom boom! Snap! Countless fierce shadows disturbed the tranquility in the upper reaches of the Ussuri River, and the noisy scene appeared - "Dauyi Maha!" Dauyimaha! Black Gada was so excited that his left hand pressed against his chest, afraid to shout.
"Dawui Maha" is a Hezhe language, which means salmon. Every year when the autumn wind rises and the white dew arrives, the ussuri river is full of salmon.
On the riverbank, the scene is even more spectacular. The dried fish billets are stacked up, stacked one after another, meandering for miles. The Hezhe people used the salmon as horse feed, and when the horse wanted to replenish its fat, they mashed the fish billet of the cannabis salmon and mixed it in the hay to feed the horses. The horse is majestic, angry, and sprinkled with joy, with endless vigor, and the color of the coat is bright and shiny. Well, "Dauyimaha" – the fish that came back on time is back!
Black Gada is a Fisherman of the Hezhe ethnic group, with swollen eyes, high cheekbones, a ravine on his forehead, and calluses on his palms. At first glance, he is a diligent worker. He paddles a "Weihu" with a wooden paddle and fishes on this river all year round. Also cast nets, also under the cable hook, but also under the barb cage. Of course, he is also a master of forkfish - a distance of more than ten meters, throw the harpoon out - wow! Can accurately hit the back of the fish.
"Weihu" is a Hezhe word, meaning canoe. A stout black birch, intercepting the best section, sinking under the water for seven days and forty-nine days, fishing it out, chiseling out a groove with a chisel. In order to prevent the wood from rotting amoeba moths, and then coated with a layer of boiled hemp salmon oil, a "Wei Hu" is done. With a birch paddle, you can paddle it and go down the river to fish.
However, as a canoe, "Wei Hu" is too primitive after all. The village director once suggested that Hei Gada change a diesel motorized boat, and once the throttle "suddenly bursts" run across the river, it is good-looking and labor-saving, and the operation efficiency is also high, but Hei Gada is not changed. He said, or "Wei Hu" is good!
Hei Gada lives in a "pick-up" on the edge of Jiang Fenzi, lonely and looking a little different. The skeleton of the Hezhe people is a traditional building of the Hezhe people, and its skeleton is composed of seven or nine stout birch pillars standing obliquely, and the tops are bitten together to play a fixed support role. Then the thinner birch poles are laid out on the skeleton, covered with birch bark on the outside, and the inner wall is made of hemp salmon skin. The "Plucked Luozi" is tall and surplus, seven or eight feet wide inside, and looks like a large silver umbrella that has not been fully propped open from a distance, and looks like the armor that has just been removed after returning from the conquest. Walk into Hei Gada's "Pick-up", in the middle of which is a fire pond, above which are grilled fish billets, and bundles of dry tobacco leaves. In the corner there is a wooden floor covered with salmon skins. Next to it are toolboxes, cooking pans, harpoons and nets, and in addition to these, the modern thing is a semiconductor radio that accompanies Black Gada. Although the "Plucking Luozi" is somewhat simple, Black Gada's life is steady, stable, and sleepy.
A few years ago, the government carried out the construction of new rural areas, and built two rows of brand-new haiqing houses (northeast houses, all built of green bricks and green tiles) for the fishermen of the Hezhe ethnic group. At the entrance of the courtyard, there is a "Zhaobi", and the front of the "Zhaobi" is written with a large blessing character. Haiqing Room is neat and bright, much more comfortable than "Plucking Luozi". The government called on the Fishermen of Hezhe to bid farewell to the "Pick-up" and move into the new house, and most of the fishermen moved into the new house with joy, but Hei Gada was not interested in the Haiqing House. The village chief broke his mouth, and Black Gada just wouldn't move.
Originally, the government's policy was still flexible and heart-warming, and considering the traditional habits of the Hezhe people, the government mainly adopted the principle of respecting the wishes of the Hezhe people, and did not engage in coercion, one-size-fits-all, and hard relocation.
However, the village chief felt that Hei Gada's failure to listen to the "greeting" was obviously a fool' errand, and why didn't you appreciate the government's good policies? So he "confiscated" Hei Gada's "Wei Hu". With a click, a large lock locked Wei Hu into the warehouse of the village committee. This broke the idea of black gadad going down the river to fish. Helplessly, Hei GaDa had to move into the haiqing room with a color TV and a refrigerator in the window. The black gada who could live in the new house had straight eyes, and the people were also pale, and they had no spirit at once.
The village chief hurried to come, and the situation was a little unpleasant. Only to hear Hei Gada keep chanting two words: "Wei Hu... Wei Hu..." Please come to Lang Zhong pulse for consultation, but I didn't figure out what the disease was.
Suddenly, the village chief remembered something, slapped his head on the door, ah, almost forgot!
The village chief quickly sent someone to carry "Wei Hu" and poke him in the middle of the house and show it to Black Gada. Seeing the familiar "Wei Hu", Black Gada's head moved, and immediately, his eyes lit up.
Within a few days, without taking medicine or injections, Black Gada's illness was miraculously cured. The village chief shook his head and sighed, no way, it is the life of fishing! The figure with the "Wei Hu" appeared on the river again. By the river, in the chimney of the "plucked Luozi", a faint cooking smoke wafted out.
What I never expected was that later the province engaged in global rural tourism, and the foreign tourists with blue eyes and yellow hair were most interested in the "plucking luozi" of the black gada by the river, shouting and exclaiming, and admiring.
Sigh, this "plucked Luozi" who once had to say goodbye has become the focus of the traditional fishing and hunting culture of the Hezhe people, and it has become so valuable! But at this time, the other "plucked Luozi" in Jiang Fenzi had been dismantled, and Hei Gada's "Pinch Luozi" had become a unique scenery.
On this day, Hei Gada sat on a wooden pier in front of the door of the "Plucked Luozi", took out the cigarette bag of the jujube pole, lit it, and sucked hard twice. A wisp of green smoke rose up. He looked at the misty river in the distance, and at the nearby shelves of swaying fish billets, and he was satisfied.
However, a shadow hung over his heart again—for a few years, the cannabis salmon did not come. This was unexpected. How could it be? Of course, the salmon did not come, other fish still existed, but other fish are getting fewer and smaller. However, Black Gada always believes that salmon will definitely come back. Because, salmon is the soul of the Ussuri River!
Jiang is there, and the soul will not be lost.
Black Gada has been waiting in the shore "pick-up". Although he had a net in his hand and was busy with his work, his mind was all in the river. Judging by the anomaly of moths gathering on the river, he judged that the migratory salmon was coming. No, that's it.
Salmon, slightly spindle-shaped, has pale cyan and pinkish purple stripes on its body and a distinct red mark on its abdomen. Aliases: salmon, dafa salmon, mate salmon, godo fish, loka fish...
Overseas fish come hundreds of millions of floats, and the countercurrent square mouth is a crater.
To this day, there are red marks on the abdomen, and it was said that the lonely east entered the royal boat.
This is a poem by the Qing people describing salmon. Salmon is mainly distributed in the Pacific Ocean, so it is also called Pacific salmon. As soon as the season arrives, China's Heilongjiang and Ussuri rivers will have salmon going up against the current, looking for their homeland.
Crossing the vast ocean, you can accurately find your birthplace, which science still can't explain. Studies have said that there may be an iron particle in the brain of salmon that acts like a compass to enable them to accurately find their way forward and place of birth. However, this is only a "possibility" after all.
Usually, they live in the sea for four to five years before entering sexual maturity. So a voice called them home. They had gathered one morning, in a huge procession, in a mighty way, in one direction.
They travel day and night, from the Sea of Japan and the Sea of Okhotsk, up the waters, into the Heilongjiang or Ussuri Rivers, can travel forty kilometers per day and night (plus the speed of the water flow of sixty kilometers, in fact, every day and night against the water a hundred kilometers), chopping waves, very turbulent, loud, can be heard for miles. In order to cross one obstacle after another, they keep jumping, once, twice, three times... They can jump to a height of two meters and three meters, or even four or five meters.
There are many dangers on the way, and they ignore it completely. In the sea, dolphins and killer whales continue to encircle and suppress. In the river, the siege of brown bears, foxes and wolves is even more thrilling. During a migration season, a single brown bear can eat more than two tons of salmon. There are also white-tailed sea eagles and arctic gulls in the air. Countless predators await them – they are delicious and fat, and only by eating them can they withstand the cold winter.
There are countless salmon that become food for another life on the way to migration, and there are countless salmon that live and move on. Because they have to fulfill a mission - to reproduce and then to die.
The maximum distance of salmon migration can reach 3,500 kilometers, and it lasts for more than 60 days. On their journey into the river, they don't eat food – an extreme behavior that is incredible.
From the moment they are born, they begin to prepare to return to their original points – to fully collect food and recuperate. Accumulate fat and build muscle. Strengthen your body and exercise endurance. However, once migrating into inland rivers, there is no more food or drink.
Born in rivers and grown up in the ocean.
Life and death, cycle after cycle, generation after generation.
The breeding grounds of salmon are generally secluded sections of the river, with gravel at the bottom, the water is clear, the water flow is soothing, and the water temperature is between five and seven degrees. When the baby fish grows large enough, it will leave their birthplace. Whenever the rivers thaw in late spring, the salmon pups, that is, take the current ice into the sea, as far as the Bering Strait and the Arctic Ocean. Salmon reproduce only once in a lifetime. After giving birth, male and female salmon patrolled the side, biting and biting the daredevils. After seven or eight days, exhausted, scaly salmon will die tragically.
The skin of hemp salmon is pale yellow and can be made into clothing. The Hezhe people call it "fish skin tartar". The skin is soft, warm, lightweight, abrasion-resistant, waterproof and can be dyed in a variety of colors. The sun shines brightly and the colors are colorful.
Black Gada can sew fish skin clothes, which is a craft handed down from generation to generation by Black Gada. Generally, it takes more than 20 days to make a fish skin product of cannabis salmon, before and after. Nowadays, the Hezhe people rarely wear this kind of clothing, but some tourists who come to travel feel curious, as handicrafts, and buy away the collection.
One day three years ago, heiga, the son of a migrant worker in a russian far eastern city, came back and brought back a beautiful Croatian girl named Tonya. The girl was watery and emitted a violet aroma. Hei Ga's father panicked, and quietly said to Hei Ga, how can this work, how can people live in the habit of "picking up Luozi"? You better go to town." Black Gada drove Black Ga to take Tonya with him. However, Tonya said that she liked to "pick up the luozi" and could not leave. There was also a daddy scream on the left and a daddy on the right.
Hei Ga was born in this "plucked Luozi", and when Hei Ga Niang gave birth to him, he had difficulty giving birth, and Hei Ga Fell to the ground, but Hei Ga Niang closed her eyes forever.
Thinking of this, Black Gada's eyes were a little damp.
Black Gada put away the dry cigarette bag of the jujube pole, inserted the copper cigarette bag mouth into the back collar, and the fishskin cigarette pocket fell on his chest, leisurely swinging. He simply untied the cable of "Wei Hu" and made a fuss! Went down to the river to catch fish.
Hei Ga and Tonya built a bigger "Pu Luo Zi" next to Hei Ga's "Pu Luo Zi" and opened a river fish restaurant, named "Pu Luo Zi Jiang Fish Hall". River water stewed Jero fish, braised river white fish, salted fish sticker cake, sauce roasted salmon, these four dishes, soon became famous.
Tonya has a pair of skillful hands, collecting many wild blueberry fruits from the riverside, finding altar jars, and brewing her own blueberry wine, which is fragrant. I also got four boxes of soil bees and raised soil bees to cut honey. Honey is linden honey, ash-like white, thick and sticky and sweet. One night, two black bears came to visit, circling in circles around the "plucked luozi" in an attempt to steal honey. Fortunately, Hei Gada had already taken precautions, and one beehive was equipped with an iron fence device, and the "black blind man" could not reach in at all, and the second put a few ears of corn cobs outside the iron fence, deliberately letting the "black blind man" steal it. After the "black blind man" succeeded, he was no longer entangled. The honey here has become honey with a story.
Black Ga and Tonya also carry pickaxes, open up a small vegetable field by the river, planted beans, cucumbers, shallots, celery, lettuce, kohlrabi and tomatoes, etc., all of which are produced for their own use and enjoy pottery.
Of course, the "Luozi River Fish Restaurant" is popular and the business is good. Distance is not an issue, as long as there are delicacies. Many people in Jiamusi, Suifenhe, Tongjiang, Fuyuan, Raohe, Hulin and other cities deliberately drive to eat fish.
Soon, a mobile transmitter tower was erected by the river, and the Internet could also be accessed in the "Pick-up", and the mobile phone also had a signal. Heiga and Tonya not only run a fish house business, but also started an Internet business, setting up a "Puluo Net Shop". The hottest sellers are salmon caviar and wild blueberry wine and linden honey made by Tonya, as well as fish skin products sewn by Black Gada. Orders are made one after the other. Black Gada sighed that the world was really different from the past.
On a shallow shoal of a river, the water is turbulent.
Black Gada and Black Ga, one carrying a harpoon and the other carrying a fishing basket. On the riverside path, one before and one after the other, two figures shook and shook. In the distance, the "plucking of luozi" in the fog is faint.