It is the same, yellow croaker is divided into large yellow croaker and small yellow croaker, respectively, one of China's four major marine industry species. Big yellowtail also called big first, golden dragon, cucumber fish, golden dragon, cinnamon yellowtail; small yellowtail also called plum fish, small kingfish, small first, small spring fish, small cucumber fish, thick scale boy. The two are the same kind of fish, because there is a refreshing cucumber flavor, so the origin of the residents called cucumber fish.

The yellow croaker/cucumber fish was once one of China's most important economic fish, an endemic species unique to China, widely distributed in the south of the Yellow Sea in the north, through the East China Sea, the Taiwan Strait, and south to the east of the Leizhou Peninsula in the South China Sea. The fish is a warm-temperature group swimmer fish, usually inhabits in the low water temperature, water quality clear estuary salt and freshwater areas or the lower reaches of large rivers, like to swim in the shore, when the water temperature rises to swim to the tributaries.