Jellyfish is the favorite seafood of Putian people. Its processed products are not only delicious home-cooked dishes, but also excellent side dishes to adjust the taste and accompany cold dishes at banquets. There are many jellyfish along the coast of Putian, which are floating in the sea. The shape of jellyfish can be basically divided into umbrella shape and head shape. Jellyfish also writes "sea house", and Puxian people call it the finished table of sea table (the pronunciation of "rice" in Puxian dialect is ladder cut). The umbrella shape of jellyfish is like a helmet, which can be processed into a whole round jellyfish skin with white color and is called "white rice". After the jellyfish head is processed, the finished jellyfish head is red, which is called "red rice" by the people. White meal and red meal are dehydrated seafood marinated with alum and salt, and the price of white meal is relatively low. Putian is very convenient to eat with white halogen and red halogen. Just soak it in cold water, wash the bittern and cut it into thin strips. You can dip it in vinegar and add soy sauce. Crispy and delicious, it is a good dish at home. If the finely cut bittern is soaked in seasoning soy sauce such as white sugar and garlic, it can be used as a cold dish or a side dish at a banquet. People eat brine as a cold dish or a side dish between dishes, which can not only adjust the taste and stimulate the appetite, but also match wine at any time. Therefore, brine has become a regular dish in various banquets in Putian, which is deeply loved by people. Interestingly, the taste of brine is crisp and delicious, while the brine soaked in brine is salty. If you don't rinse the brine when you eat it, the taste of the brine will be greatly affected. However, if the jellyfish is processed into a finished meal, it will be hard and inedible without being soaked in salt water. Everything has its pros and cons, which are contradictory and interdependent. The relationship between brine and brine has been clearly explained. The dialect sounds of "salty" and "awkward" in Puxian's spoken language are the same, since the brine is salty. Therefore, the word "brine" has actually become synonymous with Putian people laughing at those stingy people. People like "bittern" but hate "bittern". How vivid the two sides of things are in folk spoken language. Jellyfish is not as expensive as high-grade seafood such as sea cucumber and abalone, so it is enough for ordinary people to eat it often. But it is puzzling that the coastal residents of Putian, even the boatmen who catch jellyfish all the year round, only process jellyfish into finished products and sell them all to the urban areas and market towns in Putian Plain, which constitutes a strange contrast. The reason is that before the Ming Dynasty, coastal areas relied on shipping, sea salt and seafood, and their economic strength exceeded that of plain areas. Since the Qing dynasty, in order to defend Zheng Chenggong's anti-Qing movement, the coastal economy and culture have declined sharply. Later, although the border was re-established, the residents lived in poverty by living on dried sweet potatoes. Agricultural products and seafood are not eaten by themselves, but are all commodities. Even lower-priced jellyfish can't get their own recipes. After 300 years, although the life of coastal people has been greatly improved, they still maintain this frugal habit.