The Chagan Lake Fathead Fish is a specialty fish around Chagan Lake within the Qian'erros Mongolian Autonomous County in Jilin Province. Due to the special climate conditions and growing environment, its quality is excellent. Chagan Lake Fathead Fish has a delicious and pure flavor, tender meat, large body fat, fat but not greasy.

Chagan Lake winter fishing scene is the most unique and spectacular, the cold days, thousands of people working on the ice, dozens of motor vehicles around the clock transportation, hundreds of thousands of pounds of fresh fish out of the ice, the scene is known as the country's most. Chagan Lake winter fishing should be held before the dance ritual lake wake up net and other ceremonies, this custom from the Liao Jin continued to the present has a history of several hundred years. The first fish auction is even more lively, a fish can be sold to tens of thousands of yuan.

Eating the head of the fish can bring good luck, it is said that successive emperors like to eat the head of the Chagan Lake fish, the prediction of solid wind and rain. Chagan Lake winter fishing was a single net fishing volume of the world Guinness Book of Records, a net can catch more than 100,000 pounds.