Fish meal, that is, rice noodles often eaten for breakfast, usually includes lean meat powder, three fresh powder, beef powder and beef brisket powder according to the raw materials added after the rice noodles are cooked. As the name implies, the raw material added to fishmeal is fish.

Most areas in southern China have the habit of eating rice noodles for breakfast, resulting in some distinctive and well-known traditional diets, such as Guilin rice noodles in Guangxi, snail powder, Yunnan rice noodles crossing the bridge, and Guangdong beef brisket powder. And rice noodles made of fish seem to be only available in Chenzhou.

The fame of Du Qifeng fishmeal gradually began in the early 1980s. Some people in Du Qifeng saw that people in the city also like to eat fish meal, so they opened a small restaurant in Chenzhou, and the business was really booming. Some foreigners who were not born and raised in Du Qifeng were jealous and saw the business opportunities here, so they secretly learned to make fish meal. When they thought that their fishmeal was not worse than that of Du Qifeng people, they boldly put up the signboard of Du Qifeng fishmeal, and for a time this Du Qifeng fishmeal was popular in Chenzhou City.