As the saying goes, "the people take food as the sky", since ancient times, we have paid special attention to eating, and the history and culture of eating are also very long. Especially in ancient times, ordinary people paid attention to eating enough, and the emperor paid attention to eating luxury. Today we will talk about the four famous fish in ancient Chinese history, these fish belonged to the royal tribute in ancient times, and even now it is also a delicacy at the state banquet, let's see how many you know.
Yellow River carp
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Carp has always been given a beautiful meaning in ancient China, and the allusion of carp leaping dragon gate is well known to everyone. The Yellow River carp was given as a gift to each other as early as the Spring and Autumn Period, according to the "Historical Records" when Confucius's first son was born, Lu Zhaogong sent someone to give a large carp to congratulate him, Confucius felt honored to give the carp by the monarch, so he named his son Carp, Zibo Fish.
It can be seen that the Yellow River carp is valuable, and in the subsequent dynasties and dynasties, the Yellow River carp has become a royal tribute, in the Tang Dynasty, it should be the emperor's surname Li, carp and Li, so eating carp is against criminal law.
Taihu Lake silverfish
It is known as the "Three Treasures of Taihu Lake", and its history is also very long. As early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Taihu Lake was rich in silver fish, which should be shaped like a jade hairpin, delicate and transparent, and the color was like silver, so it was called silver fish, and it was sought after by literati and inkers in all dynasties. The Song people once used the "silver fish frost under the perch after spring" and listed it alongside the sea bass as a treasure in the fish. During the Kangxi Dynasty of the Qing Dynasty, silver fish was listed as a royal tribute.
Matsue perch
Songjiang perch has been famous for two thousand years, and the earliest record of it comes from Cao Cao's banquet guests in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and he regrets that there are no sea bass on the table. The world's perch has two gills, but the Songjiang perch is four gills, which is the reason why the Songjiang perch is famous in the world.
When the Sui Dynasty Emperor visited Jiangnan, he tasted The Songjiang perch and praised it as "Southeast Jiaweiye", and the Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty gladly evaluated it as "the first dish in Jiangnan" after tasting it. Since then, Matsue perch has become a royal tribute.
Tarzan Red Scaled Fish
Taishan red scale fish, also known as the mantis fish, according to the "Taishan Medicine Chronicle" recorded that "this product is named after the mantis head Xilin", since the Song Dynasty has become a royal tribute of successive dynasties, the Qing Dynasty's Manchu Han whole table is: fried red scale fish, such a dish.