Song Dynasty fish prices fluctuate greatly, cheap time 3 Wenyen to buy a palm-sized fish, and even pick up free, expensive time a catty 100 Wenyen, more expensive than pork. Song Jiang lived in the late Northern Song Dynasty, that time the general catch-and-kill fish is less, need to be along the river along the river zone to eat, and assuming that in the winter, the fish from the Yellow River was caught up, and then transported to Kaifeng, and then by fishmongers to sell along the street, generally can be sold for 100 wen a catty, only a little less than the price of mutton, or quite expensive.

But there is a reason why it is expensive, not counting the cost of catching and transporting the fish, but also the fact that in winter, when the river freezes over, the number of fish produced becomes less, and the price of fish rises, but it is not higher than that of mutton, so it is barely reasonable. In other seasons, when the river is not frozen, the output of fish becomes larger, and the price will be lower. That in addition to the seasons, the price of fish varies from time to time, from place to place, and from species to species in the Song Dynasty.

In the middle of the Northern Song Dynasty, if you live near the water, and you do not know how to catch fish, you have to buy from the market, the market of freshwater fish per catty of 100 wen, a catty in the Song Dynasty is equivalent to more than 600 grams of today's; and in the latter part of the Northern Song Dynasty, if you live in the south of the Yangtze River, a real sea bream to be sold for a few guan money, the equivalent of one or two pieces of silver as a unit, but real sea bream is deliciously rare, can have This price is very normal;If you live in the area of Zhejiang, you want to eat puffer fish, you need to pay a deposit first for the first month's puffer fish, and the final payment is a consistent amount of money, and then the February puffer fish will only cost 100 wen.

Three wen for a palm-sized fish was in the Southern Song Dynasty, which translates to a dollar; and if you lived by the river, you could take advantage of the situation a lot, because fishmongers dumped any fish that didn't sell out in two days. As long as you didn't mind the fish dying, then you were able to keep watch on the beach and pick up free fish to go back and eat; If it was around Hunan and Hubei in the mid-South Song Dynasty, a basket of fish would only cost 100 Wen; and in the late Northern Song Dynasty, early Southern Song Dynasty, it only cost 100 Wen to buy an extra-large fish, and it would still feed 20 people.