Fish, like geese, can be synonymous with letters. The ancients wrote letters with silk and put them in the belly of fish to convey secret messages. In this way, fish communication is called "fish communication element". In the Tang and Song Dynasties, all the golden symbols worn by dignitaries were called "fish symbols" to show nobility and inferiority. "Fish" and "fish" are homophonic, so fish symbolizes wealth. "Like a duck to water" is used to describe the harmony, happiness and freedom of work and life.

A great man once said, "Man was changed from a fish." This kind of * *, which is called "monkey changing into human" by colleagues, seems to be contradictory; However, if you think about it carefully, life on earth originated from the ocean, and the advanced life in the ocean is fish. As an advanced life on land, it is not in line with the viewpoint of evolution to say that it once had the same structure as the protein gene of fish in the evolutionary chain. It can be seen that the theory that "fish can change people" is not a theory that a great man talks nonsense and pretends to be unconventional, but the result of his philosophical thinking. This statement can also be found in other nationalities in the world, and the legend of Mermaid is an example. We can also find circumstantial evidence of mermaid's "distant relatives" from our history and folk customs. At the end of the year, China folk custom pays attention to fish supply, which is more than enough every year? The luck of fish is the totem worship of fish.

The mascot says fish.

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? (a) sending letters by carp

? Fish is loved by people not only because of its edible value, but also because it is a beautiful cultural symbol. For example, the ancients often sent letters in the shape of double carp.

In this regard, the Tang Dynasty poet Li Shangyin's "A Word to Secretary Hu Ling" intoned: "Song Shu has been away from home for a long time, and the two carp are far apart." According to legend, earlier, people wrote letters with silk and put it

Put it in the belly of real carp and pass it on to each other, because it is called "fish note". Cai Yong wrote a Yuefu poem in the Han Dynasty, describing such a letter: "The guest came from afar and left me a pair of carp. Hu Er boiled carp,

There is a ruler book in it. "Because it also has the reputation of" fish element ",it has formed the literary allusion of" excessive fish element ".

Crown goldfish? In the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the imperial court issued symbols, which were cast into fish shapes by wood carving or copper, called "fish symbols" and "fish deeds"; Because the information to be conveyed is written on the symbol, so

Also known as "fish book". When using this symbol, cut it in half, and each side holds half of the fish symbol to prevent the two sides from meeting as evidence. In the Song Dynasty, in order to show the nobility of users,

Identity, there are fish symbols made of gold raw materials. ? Fish is the theme of past dynasties, implying auspicious cultural activities, including fish lanterns, fish dances, poems and paintings related to fish, etc. Fish lanterns are very common.

On the New Year's Lantern Festival, its candlelight shines and its image is lovely. Xiao Yi, Emperor of Liang Yuan in the Southern Dynasties, once praised it in "Ode to Lantern": "I know there should be no lovers in the dragon lantern, but I am surprised that the fish lantern has its old name." Guan Youyuko

The Buddha's name is "fish drum", commonly known as "wooden fish", and monks beat rhythmically when chanting.

? (B) the story of eating fish

According to Han Shu, Jin Shu and other historical records, "In the eighth year of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty (239 BC), the river fish was big, and Liu Xiang thought it was evil to approach fish"; "Wei Qi Wang Jiaping four years (AD

In May 252, a fish gathered in the armory. The fish was evil. The meaning of the word "fish evil" includes both good luck and bad luck. The ancients attached some abnormal phenomena to fish.

Things can be said to add a mysterious color to fish.

? As a dietary custom, fish is regarded as a mascot, such as "Mingtai Fish" eaten by Korean compatriots in Northeast China every time they go to Tomb-Sweeping Day. "Mingtai" was originally the name of an old Korean farmer.

Legend has it that there was a great drought in the northeast coastal area in the past. An old farmer named Park Ming-tai led the villagers to catch a kind of marine fish to satisfy their hunger and spend the famine year. This fish is black.

It is a foot long and can be stored after drying in salt water. There is a fish dish "Yuanyang fish" in Shandong cuisine, which is steamed with white mandarin fish and red fish and salty.

Fresh and tender fragrance, distinct red and white, attractive color. This dish is a famous dish of Confucius in Qufu. Often used as the main course of a wedding banquet, it symbolizes the love of newlyweds and never separates them.

? There are also many popular stories about fish in southern China. Suzhou Embroidery "Suzhou Embroidery" is a popular fish pattern "fish playing lotus" in Jiangsu, which is a favorite embroidered by women for their husbands or lovers.

An auspicious painting. Rural families in northern Jiangsu hang a fish on the scale hook every year on Lunar New Year's Eve, and the local dialects "scale", "leftover", "fish" and "surplus" are homophonic; Proportion (left).

Fish (surplus), there are fish every year ",which has become a slogan of people.

? (3) Life is full of fish.

? In Shanghai, Ningbo, Zhejiang and other places, there is a custom of receiving the god of wealth at the beginning of the lunar calendar. The former puts live carp on a silk rope and sticks red paper as a sacrifice, which is called "Yuanbao Fish". The latter is made of tinplate.

Sacrifice two yellow croakers to symbolize gold, because in the old society, local people called gold bars "large yellow croakers" and "small yellow croakers"; In some places, live carp are also released into rivers, which means

"Business is booming all over the world, and financial resources are flourishing up to three rivers". ? Fish-related wedding custom in eastern Zhejiang, when the newly married wife gets off the sedan chair, she scatters some copper coins on the ground. Copper coins are commonly known as copper coins.

The new wife called it "carp sowing", saying that carp lay more eggs, indicating strong reproductive ability and "full offspring"

? In addition, jade fish, one of the eight treasures in the sky, which has been popular since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, is praised as "auspicious fish (surplus)" because of its homonym, symbolizing a good and prosperous year.

Prosperity. This kind of ancient cultural relics includes the bronze wash of the Han Dynasty, with Pisces painted on the bottom and the words "Daji Sheep" engraved on the side. One of the ancient brocade patterns is decorated with beautiful fish.

Fish scale pattern, commonly known as "fish scale brocade".

? People like to look at fish pictures, which are similar to fish characters: "congratulations on golden jade", depicting goldfish and lotus flowers; "Every family benefits" means that there are many people who buy carp; "

More than a year ",performed with firecrackers and fish; Good luck every year ",there are silver carp and oranges; ..... In short, people's colorful lives are full of fish, and fish have been brought to thousands of households.

Good luck and best wishes.

[Edit this paragraph] Cuisine: More than one year.

Exercise 1

[Ingredients] A fresh bass tail 1 kg, shredded onion 1 2 cup, shredded ginger 4 tbsp, shredded red pepper1tbsp.

Seasoning: a. 1/4 teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon wine, 4 shallots, 4 slices of ginger, b. 1 teaspoon water, 1/2 teaspoons white powder, and a few drops of sesame oil.

Steam [cook]

[practice]

1. Wash the perch and marinate it with material A for half an hour.

2. Put in a plate and steam for 10 minute.

3. Heat the pot, add shredded onion, shredded ginger and shredded red pepper to the soup of steamed fish, boil, thicken the fish with material B, and drop a few drops of sesame oil.

[Features] This cooking method uses less oil and salt, and adds flavor with fish juice, wine, onion and ginger.

Exercise 2

Technology: steaming

Taste: salty and delicious

Ingredients: Perch (750g)

Seasoning: green onion (15g), ginger (10g), fish sauce (10g), white wine (5g), oyster sauce (5g), salad oil (10g), white sugar (3g) and sesame oil (3g).

Category: Cantonese New Year's Eve dinner

Production process:

1. Wash the perch, cut it into pieces connected with the back from the abdomen, spread it in a steamer with a little oil, cut 2 onions and 2 ginger into small noodles and put it on the fish;

2. Mix 2 tbsps of seasoned fish sauce, 65,438+0 tbsps of wine, 65,438+0/2 tbsps of oyster sauce, 65,438+0/2 tbsps of salad oil and 65,438+0 tsps of sugar in a small bowl, then pour them on the fish and steam them in a pot over medium heat for 65,438+00 minutes.

3. The other 3 shallots, 3 slices of ginger and 1 pepper are shredded and soaked in clear water;

4. After the fish is steamed, take it out, pick out the onion and ginger, put it in another clean plate, and spread the onion, ginger and pepper shreds;

5. Heat the seasoning 1 tablespoon salad oil, 1 tablespoon sesame oil and a little pepper, and pour it on the onion, ginger and shredded pepper.

Process tips:

1. Fish sauce is a high-quality product extracted from fish. Steamed fish is better than salt and soy sauce.

2. Because the fish sauce itself is salty, it is not appropriate to add salt;

3. In order to keep the fish fresh and tender, it is necessary to reduce the pickling time of the fish to be steamed, or even steam it directly without pickling, starting with boiling water.

Dietary nutrition:

Perch: Perch has the effects of nourishing liver and kidney, benefiting spleen and stomach, resolving phlegm and relieving cough, and has a good nourishing effect on people with liver and kidney deficiency; Perch can also treat fetal movement and hypogalactia. Expectant mothers and pregnant women eat perch. Perch is a kind of nutritious food, which can not only nourish the body, but also won't lead to obesity because of overnutrition. It is a good product for strengthening the body and enriching the blood, invigorating the spleen and benefiting qi, and is beneficial to health. In addition, the blood of perch contains more copper, which can maintain the normal function of nervous system and participate in the role of key enzymes in the metabolism of several substances. People who lack copper can eat perch to supplement it.

The recipes are similar:

Perch: Perch should not be eaten with cattle and sheep oil, milk cool and Chinese medicine Schizonepeta.

Annual surplus contains nutrients:

Calorie (976.68 kcal), protein (141.39g), fat (40.68g), carbohydrate (8.09g), dietary fiber (0.56g), vitamin A (147.20g), and vitamin A. Riboflavin (1.47mg), nicotinic acid (23.49mg), vitamin C (2.95), vitamin E (11.50mg), calcium (1047.43mg) and phosphorus (/kloc). Sodium (20 19. 1 1 mg), magnesium (296.26 mg), iron (16.22 mg), zinc (2 1.47 mg), selenium (249.49 mg). Vitamin B6 (0.02), pantothenic acid (0.06mg), folic acid (8.40mg), vitamin K (1.05mg) and cholesterol (651.40mg).

Exercise 3

Ingredients: yellow croaker 1 strip, 30 garlic cloves, 2 ginger slices, 3 shallots, 6 cups of oil and 2 cups of stock.

Seasoning: 4 tbsps of soy sauce, 8 tbsps of white pepper wine 1/,3 tbsps of sugar and 2 tbsps of water.

Method:

1. Clean the internal organs of yellow croaker, wash them and dry them with paper towels.

2. Heat oil, add croaker and fry until yellow. Drain the oil and serve.

3. Stir-fry garlic cloves until they are yellow, take them out, leave about 3-4 tablespoons of oil to fry shallots and ginger slices, then add yellow croaker, soy sauce, white pepper, wine, sugar and broth, cook over medium heat until the soup is thick, thicken with white powder water and pour some hot oil.

Formulas related to annual surplus:

Lemon fish, watercress, fresh fish noodles, crab soup, steamed perch, chrysanthemum perch, steamed sour plum fish, Songjiang perch, perch soup, Jiangdong stewed perch and Qianjiang perch.