Basically formed a five-step process.

Cognize jumping fish

Jumping fish, the scientific name of the mudskipper, commonly known as the monkey, shaped like a loach, the whole body coloured black, big head, wide gills and round head, the two dripping eyes long in the top of the head, appearing to be prominent elves. When in heat, the open dorsal fin, as a patterned blue-green fan, summer mating spawn hatch small fish, generally in the fall and winter to grow into a fish, adult weight of about half a couple of fish. It is an amphibious fish species, can be in the water to absorb oxygen, but also can breathe air. When the tide is high, it burrows into the cave to rest, and immediately comes out of the cave after the tide goes out, and if it doesn't come out of the water for a whole day, it will glance dead. It mainly lives on the mudflats, biting out burrows up to one or two meters deep on the beach to live. Usually foraging, playing and seeking mates on the beach. It is sensitive, good at jumping, and has a strong sense of self-protection. A situation, immediately into the hole, not easy to catch. It has some partners, not insiders, it is difficult to distinguish: a jumping fish uncle. The head is obviously thin and short, and the body color is not black, the whole body gray and white with spots, rarely live in the hole, when the tide is in groups jumping around the water's edge. Dry and thin without meat, fishy flavor strong, very difficult to eat. Another is the jumping fish brother, its body fat small short, the most obvious is the eyes small mouth flat broad, body clumsy jumping poor, easy to catch, meat is more delicious. Another is the dog jumping fish. Long, thin and hard, skin and bones, skinny, can not eat. Head like a dog's head, ugly shape, disgusting, touch it feel obscene, people often use its name to curse.

Looking for jumping fish

Some of the world's sea areas have jumping fish survival, but the number of different species, different types of fish quality is different. They are more numerous along the Pacific coast and more concentrated in tropical areas. The jumping fish of the oceanic seaside are highly active, and thus have hard bones and rough flesh, with slightly less food value. The best quality jumping fish is produced in Donggoyang, East Fujian, which is the most suitable harbor for jumping fish to live. The jumping fish likes warmth and is afraid of cold, and the water temperature here is not silty and freezing, so it is easy for the jumping fish to spend the winter. The salinity of the water is not too high and the quality of the inner sea water, which is made by the convergence of sea water, river water, brackish water and fresh water, is the best place to feed the fish. In addition, the many rivers in the surrounding hills bring a lot of organic fertilizers to the beaches, making the mudflats soft and fertile, with a wide variety of plankton species, which provide rich and high-grade fodder for the jumping fish. The mudflats here are flat and open, and the tide is low, so the jumping fish have plenty of space to move around. In particular, we have the largest area of beach land in Ha Hu Bay, the beach on the harbor branching across the undulating beach, interspersed with hard earth court without water and soft earth beach can accumulate water. It is easy for the jumping fish to dig holes in the hard earth court to live, and easy to the neighboring stagnant water to feed. Therefore, this is the biggest gathering place for jumping fish, and there are not so many jumping fish in other places. Here on the beach surface has a layer of fertile fertile, greasy as cream like sticky sea mud, jumping fish eat this diatom-rich mud grow especially fat, robust and rich tender. This is a piece of Feng Shui precious land to breed jumping fish, and the village people also rely on this piece of beach land to catch jumping fish for a living.

Catching jumping fish

There are several ways to catch jumping fish, some use nets, but once the net is down, it will scare the jumping fish away. The net is fixed, and very few jumping fish are caught in the net. Some use fishing to fish, people have to stand on the beach, will not move, will be thrown to the fishing ten meters away to hook jumping fish, the general accuracy of the hit rate is not high, even if hooked up to the dead fish. Then there is a drug to poison fish and electricity to hit fish, drugs are difficult to pour into the cave to go, electric shock range is not good to grasp, even if the poison or electric shock is also dead fish. A smart way is "when" jumping fish, is the caliber of about the size of the toes of the mother of bamboo poles, cut off the long 20 centimeters or so of the short bamboo tube, buried it flat in the jumping fish next to the mouth of the cave, and with the mud will be painted smooth bamboo tube mouth, to be jumped when the fish went home, mistakenly thought it was their own hole head into the mouth of a head into it, in and out of the back and back out, and then let people live to capture the fish. Then they will be captured alive. But the jumping fish is smart, rarely fooled, so the amount of live capture is not big. Only one of the most stupid and the best way is to dredge for jumping fish, and this method is still used nowadays. Diving into the sea to dig jumping fish, to specialize in the use of a small hoe, hoe only a book page large, hoe thickness of only half a centimeter, hoe mouth book like a knife, so small hoe digging up the sea mud to save energy. Some use a wooden hoe to dig, but not as light as an iron hoe. When digging jumping fish, you have to find the jumping fish hole first. The hole is not big, round like the mouth of an ink bottle, it is very easy to find, you will follow the patterned path it crawls and you will find the hole at once. When the weather is hot, the hole is open; when the weather is cool, the hole is sealed with mud. After finding the hole, to a hoe a hoe along the water out of the hole slowly digging, the beginning of the digging of the earth can be thicker, almost to the bottom of the hole, digging the earth to thin, can be as thin as a piece of bread, this is to prevent the jumping fish will be mixed with large pieces of earth digging over the top or to prevent just a hoe digging down the jumping fish cut off at the waist. Some jumping jacks have only one hole and straight to the end, such a hole is good to dig. But most of the holes are holes in holes, holes in holes, I do not know the jumping fish hidden in that hole. At this point, we have to look at the hole of the water is turbid to dig that hole, and sometimes also dug the wrong, can only rely on experience to judge. Some holes are very long, very deep, from the surface to the bottom of the hole, to dig a very large pit, the size of a TV box as big as the big one to dig out a cubic meter of sea soil. A pit to dig a bag of cigarettes work. Some holes dug half of the jumping fish on the drill out, most to dig to the bottom of the hole, only to force it to run out. Jumping fish drilled out of the hole in the earth pit the moment the most people nervous, it came out immediately after jumping up, like a ping-pong ball hit the floor can be jumped up one or two meters high, if a moment to press the inadmissible, it will take the opportunity to jump to the beach, and immediately fled to the puddle or drilled into other caves, then, the head of the fish even if it is dug in vain. Summer digging jumping fish cool, the most bitter is the winter under the sea digging fish, bare feet into the sea soil, legs and stomach straight out of the body temperature gas, hands and feet frozen numb. Generally from the ebb tide digging to the high tide, a tide of water can only dig one or two pounds of jumping fish, high skill can only dig up to three or four pounds at most. Harvesting farmed jumping jacks in ponds also uses this digging method, but because of the shallow soil layer, the amount of fish is dense, digging labor-saving, catch rate can be increased several times.

Boiled jumping fish

Dead jumping fish have no value, we are afraid of digging jumping fish when digging jumping fish to dig jumping fish dead, see dead jumping fish or throw away or take home to feed ducks, we do not eat dead jumping fish. Jumping fish to eat is the mudflat on the soil oil that is microorganisms, the belly and intestines, there is no scum, no scales, do not have to scrape the scales to the belly and intestines to get dead and then boiled. Our village has a different set of secrets and tricks to cook jumping fish, which is to use live fish to cook. This is our invention, others can not cook. Specifically, there is a set of standardized procedures and techniques, the fish cooked out of the fish body bent into 360 degrees, a head into 9 or 6 shape, the meat on the spine of the fish exploded, the fish softened and crispy, all the spices penetrate into the fish body, all the fish texture is also integrated into the fish broth water. This fish tastes tender and crispy bones, sticky meat, pure soup flavor, fresh taste. To achieve "expensive fish cooking, good fish good cooking" of the main points. If you kill the live fish after cooking or do not have to cook live fish, which is called dead fish dead cooking or live fish dead cooking, cooking out of the jumping fish straight, hard board, cooking, steaming, not rotten, not absorbing material, not dissolved soup. Bones are raw and hard, the meat is crusty, and the fish smells fishy. Eating as chewing candles, eating plastic, swallowing hard particles. Cooked out of such fish, we think it is the gold as dirt, think it is a pity, such fish we do not eat. Some people also learn our cooking method, but learn not like. We also made up a children's song to make fun of them, said: "jumping fish goblin, head long eyes, poured into the hot water pot, all jumping light", even the death of the boiled fish can not eat. I have eaten north and south of many Lai Hall jumping fish, none of them are using live fish cooked alive, I want to teach them, but my friend said: this is a special skill, can apply for a patent, do not just leak. I think so.

Eat jumping fish

Jumping fish is a seafood treasures, rich in protein, carbohydrates and calcium, phosphorus, iron and a variety of vitamins, with the essence of blood, nourishing Yin Yang effect. Some seafood, farming is not as good as the wild, such as shrimp. Jumping fish is different, the farmed ones do not lose the wildness, and the taste of the wild ones is comparable. Live jumping fish can be cooked and eaten now, or stored for a period of time. The jumping fish has a strong vitality and can survive for about a month when kept in seawater. If it is kept temporarily in summer, the water should be changed more frequently. However, it is not advisable to keep the fish for too long, as too long a period of time will cause nutritional deficiencies, resulting in thinning of the fish and a decline in the quality of the meat. There are a variety of ways to eat, common available water to cook, only add the right amount of salt, vinegar, rice wine, soy sauce, ginger can be, not too many spices, so as not to overpower the main event. Can also be a single rice wine stew steamed, add some ginseng slices or wolfberries. Cooked jumping fish should be eaten by the heat, hot eating fish pure, fish mellow, nutritional full, the most complementary Yang. It is also appropriate to eat frozen, frozen meat poly gel gel, fish soup as one, eat meat such as eating frozen, eat frozen such as eating meat, refreshing sweet and cold, nourishing yin and tonifying the kidneys. Sitting in the "month" of women, the patient and the winter season to eat complementary are appropriate to eat jumping fish. Eat jumping fish on hepatitis, edema, dampness and heat, hemorrhoids, etc. has obvious curative effect. Containing cholesterol, fat, and contains "hexadecadienoic acid", this substance can protect blood vessels, is the ideal food for the elderly and hypertensive patients. If the fish is dead, it should not be boiled or stewed, but can be eaten in braised or dried fish. Jumping fish is also the best gifts, with jumping fish to send love its gift. Seaside people to get married and engaged in the gift can never be less than a fresh jumping big jumping fish. There is also a folk proverb called "jumping fish have come and gone", which means that it should be courteous to each other.

Jumping fish is not many places of origin, especially this unique beach in the lower Marginal Bay, should be protected. Jumping fish is getting less and less, do not dig indiscriminately, do not overcapture jumping fish fry, not to mention the fishing of young fish and pregnant fish, effectively from the source to protect, so that the jumping fish to get a better reproduction of life.