Fishing has lasted for five or six thousand years in China. It is advancing with the progress of the times, with the improvement of productivity and social life, and it is also constantly melting into new cultural connotations and technological innovations with international exchanges. For example, it evolved from bone hooks in the fishing and hunting era to bronze hooks, iron hooks and steel hooks, and then upgraded to 8H high carbon steel hooks, tungsten steel hooks and titanium alloy hooks today; Fishing line has also changed from the original bark fiber, hide strip, hemp thread, cotton thread and silk thread to today's nylon thread, glass glue thread, fluorocarbon thread, wiring, strong horse line and so on. In terms of fishing methods and fishing techniques, our fishing predecessors have created dozens or even hundreds of popular, unique or national and local traditional fishing methods for us and our descendants, which have become the richest and strongest "intellectual property" foundation of modern fishing techniques in China, and also a treasure house of science and technology.

"Traditional fishing" is an "old-fashioned" fishing method with different titles compared with "hanging fishing". In fact, among the traditional fishing methods that have been circulated for thousands of years, the most widely and universally used fishing methods are "morning hook fishing", "sleeping hook fishing", "vertical hook fishing", "open hook fishing" (also known as "row hook fishing"), "long line hook fishing" and "stretched hook fishing". It is not only widely used in freshwater fishing, but also used in marine fishing; For example, there are several ocean-going fleets in China that go to the Palau Islands in the South Pacific to hunt large and precious tuna, and the fishing technique used is modern "longline fishing". "Longline fishing" is also used to catch benthic groupers.

Why does the seemingly "backward" "traditional fishing" have such a strong historical vitality? With the progress of the times, the improvement of material culture and scientific and technological level, all kinds of traditional fishing tackle have been constantly innovated, adding new materials and improving quality, but their unbreakable scientific principles must always be adhered to and followed. Their most basic scientific principles are embodied in simple structure, universal operability, easy preparation, imitation, learning and meeting, strong practicability, wide application range, high catch rate, low relative cost and durability when resources are abundant; From the perspective of conservation and sustainable utilization of resources, all of the above are traditional fishing, which has high environmental protection value and is highly respected.