Eating fish is a common occurrence in Baoying. City people come home from work, pass by the food market, bend down and walk in, bring some fish out and eat a snack. Rural people are more convenient, and mud can catch fish; Water was poured into abel tamata and a small net was placed in the gap. Fish like to swim against the current and just fall into a trap; Even if the rice is in the pot, it doesn't matter if there are no fish scales. Walking around the river with a harpoon at will, I found that the target was struggling to throw it back, and the fish on the harpoon was still alive and kicking. Baoying people eat fish in various cooking methods, such as frying, braising, boiling, steaming, frying, casserole soup and so on. The names of the dishes are also quite artistic: hibiscus fillets, beautiful Chinese cabbage, white jade jade, generals crossing the bridge ... you don't need to see them, but you can tell them are full of color, taste and shape. At the family dinner. There are several points to eat fish: the turtle should be placed in front of the host and guest, and the fish head must face east. What are the allusions? I once asked an old man. He narrowed his eyes and smiled and said, "This is auspicious. In the past, the east side of the canal was fertile and the west side was flooded for ten years. When the fish is served at the banquet, it is a blessing to the guests to sing:' the fish head faces east and the fertile land is in Hedong'; At this time, the guest should return the gift:' Go, go' means to leave the fish, which means more than one year. It suddenly dawned on me that people living in the land of fish and rice regard fish as the most expensive dish, and with auspicious words, they entertain guests and show goodwill; At the same time, the courtesy of the host and guest pushed the banquet to a climax, because the following is "fish versus wine". "On formal occasions, Baoying people often eat several kinds of fish: bream, white carp and four-season fish. The bream head is small, out of proportion and ugly, but the meat is delicate, especially the big belly, which is tender but not greasy, smooth and refreshing. White fish is slender and symmetrical, with shiny scales, decent image, nice name and special taste. The picture of carp on the table is "jumping the dragon gate". Who wouldn't? Seasonal flower fish is a local name, and its scientific name is mandarin fish. It looks fierce, with sharp bone spurs on its back, but the meat is piece by piece, so don't worry about losing all the bones in its throat. Even more amazing is that there are flowers in the stomach of mandarin fish, and its owner often presents them to the most respected guests at the table. Of course, there are many varieties of Baoying fish, but usually people don't entertain guests with others. I think Baoying's characteristic fish food culture is among these fish. According to legend, Baoying in Qing Dynasty produced a kind of perch with small scales and fine meat, which was delicious. The dignitaries passed Baoying from south to north along the canal, and they all liked to taste "Baoying Bass". If they are not satisfied after eating, they will always reach out and take it away, which often causes right and wrong. Sun Hui, the county magistrate, is trying to deal with this matter. He is very sad. When Pu Songling, who was in Baoying's staff at that time, learned of the incident, he put forward a plan and suggested changing the bass pond into a release pond, claiming that the emperor ruled the world with benevolence and released it as virtue. So, what else can others say? According to the plan, Sun Zhi sent someone to repair the pavilion and erected a monument beside the pool. Pu Songling wrote "The Story of the Release of the Pool" and never saw the "bass disease" again. If the bass is extinct, is it extinct? Lateolabrax japonicus, with blue-gray upper body and gray lower body, has black spots on both sides and dorsal fin. Isn't this the tiger shark now? There are two kinds of fried shark slices and shark vinegar soup on Baoying's menu now. Foreign guests who come to Baoying to taste these two kinds of clams are always full of praise. However, the name "tiger shark" is too daunting. Could it be that Pu Songling changed his name and continued to use it? History is not recorded and can only be used as a speculation. Baoying also has a very special kind of fish, called stickleback, which is small and yellow-brown, with thorns on both sides of gills and no scales. It looks terrible, but it is very convenient to handle. Tear it from under the cheeks, take out the internal organs, wash it a little, and you can cook. There is a way to eat stickleback. The thorns next to the gills are embedded in the wooden pot cover, and then hung in the pot for aerial cooking. At that time, all the fish will fall into the soup, and the fishbone can be taken out of the pot cover. This soup is very delicious. I have never tried this method, but I have practiced it several times by eating the fish head like a "puppy" according to the bone type of the sea thorn fish head. When my son was three or four years old, I showed him. A table of "puppies" lined up to ask him, "Is it fun?" He stared at the "puppy" and suddenly said, "It's like a frog, too. "I was amused by my son's reasonable imagination and ability to think in different ways. Some people say that "it is better to fish than to eat fish", but I think each has its own fun. I have another opinion about eating fish: the fish in the city are not as delicious as those in the country. Once he went to a classmate's house by the water swing, and his father came back with a fish with a smile and said, "We have nothing delicious here. Unlike several dishes in the city, you can only cook river fish and taste fresh water in the river. "There was a bang in the kitchen, and the fish was served. It was hot, and chopped green onion and garlic were sprinkled on the sauce red, and the fragrance was overflowing. I grabbed the chopsticks and tasted them. Oh, that's fresh. It is still in my memory. Everyone knows that eating fish is fresh, but it really takes some luck to taste "fresh water". This kind of luck to eat delicious food is very rare for urban residents. Even in the hotel, the fish is just out of the water, and it always seems that there is less flavor and game when it is cooked, fried and stewed with monosodium glutamate. So I think "fresh water" is the highest level of eating fish.