Dongjiang fish in Zixing City, Hunan Province

Dongjiang fish, a specialty of Zixing City, Hunan Province, is a symbol product of chinese national geography. Dongjiang fish is made from fresh red fish or silver carp in Dongjiang River basin and Dongjiang River by traditional food processing methods in southern Hunan and modern food processing technology.

product features

Dongjiang fish products made from fresh red or silver carp in Dongjiang River valley and Dongjiang River basin by traditional food processing methods in southern Hunan combined with modern food processing technology are fresh and fragrant in meat, dense and easy to tear, moderate in hardness, free from muddy smell, chewy, spicy and salty, and have successfully opened up a precedent for making leisure fish products with freshwater fish in China, which is called by local people as ".

Origin environment

Zixing City is located in the southeast of Hunan Province. It is a new industrial city and a garden-style tourism open city integrating reservoir area, forest area, old area, industrial and mining area and tourist area. It is known as "water town, electric city, coal capital, linhai, granary, gene bank and amusement park".

dongjiang fish is famous for its origin in the Jianghu. Dongjiang Lake is located in Zixing City. "A dam locks Dongjiang, and a high gorge leads to Pinghu". Dongjiang dam is 157 meters high, 35 meters wide at the bottom, 7 meters wide at the top, 438 meters long at the center of the dam top, with an installed capacity of 511,111 kilowatts. The water surface area of Dongjiang Lake is 1.61 square kilometers, and the water storage capacity is 8 billion cubic meters, which is equivalent to half of Dongting Lake. Surrounded by forests, Dongjiang Lake has clear water quality.

Historical origin

Zixing people always like to eat fish. In the late Qing Dynasty, Xingning County Records recorded that many (mountain) ponds in the whole territory raised four big fish.

in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, fishery was produced and spread throughout the country.

In p>1964, Zixing Institute of Agricultural Sciences initiated artificial incubation and seedling raising.

In 1981s, Dongjiang Reservoir (large-scale) closed its floodgates to store water, which could raise 1.8 million mu of fish. It accounts for 97.3% of the fishable water surface of the reservoir in the whole territory, and artificial stocking is the main method, with equal emphasis on breeding and proliferation.

Production situation

Dongjiang fish and its fish products are widely sold to Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Sichuan, Chongqing, Hong Kong, Beijing and other places because of their excellent quality, and become the food distribution of China Southern Airlines. Dongjiang red, spotted fork tail and other products are exported to the United States, Japan and the European Union and other countries and regions.

The development of Dongjiang fish benefited from the fact that on March 2, 1986, Dongjiang Hydropower Station, a national key construction project, was officially closed for water storage, forming Dongjiang Reservoir, with a storage capacity of 8.12 billion cubic meters and a water surface area of 241,111 mu, equivalent to half of Dongting Lake.