Reading: z and y ú. Mullet (Mugilcephalus) is also known as: black branch, nine-section stick, sunflower dragon, field fish, aconite, mullet, fat fish, white-eyed fish, diced fish and black-eared mullet. It belongs to Mullerian family, Mullerian family, and is a wide-temperature, euryhaline fish.

Mullet is a kind of mullet in the order mullet. The body is slender, the front is nearly cylindrical, and the back is flat; The head is moderate, the top is flat, the sides are slightly convex, and it is inclined to the abdomen; Kiss width is short; Big eyes, fat eyes and developed face; The interval between the eyes is wide and flat; The lower mouth is slightly herringbone; There is a protrusion at the front end of the mandible, which can be embedded in the opposite depression of the maxilla; There are fine villous teeth on the edges of the upper and lower jaws; Tail fin fork The head and back are bluish black, and there are 7 black longitudinal stripes on the upper side of the body, with silver-white spots between each stripe; The abdomen is white and the fins are gray. ? Named after the dark black pattern on the body. ?

Mullet is distributed in tropical, subtropical and temperate waters all over the world. ? In China, it is distributed in the Yellow Sea, Bohai Sea, East China Sea and South China Sea, and at the confluence of estuaries. They usually live under the water of 10 meter, or they can go deep under the water of 120 meter. It usually moves during the day and usually gathers into schools of fish. Jump out of the sea occasionally. Feeding on plankton, cuttings, microalgae and benthic organisms. When living in fresh water, they feed on algae. The breeding season is from March to April, and the number of pregnant eggs is 3.2 million to 4.8 million. Eggs are floating, have oil balls and grow rapidly.

Mullet is sweet in taste, flat in nature, and enters the stomach meridian. Has the effects of invigorating spleen and qi, promoting digestion, resolving food stagnation, and strengthening defecation, and can be used for treating anorexia, mental fatigue, spleen deficiency, nocturnal polyuria and sequelae of polio. ? It is rich in unsaturated fatty acids, which is beneficial to blood circulation and is a good food for cardiovascular patients.