It's not surprising to talk about fish, but do you know where there are the most freshwater fish in China? In Huzhou, there are 1/11 freshwater fish in China, which is known as "China Fish Capital". Speaking of fish farming, it is not surprising that fish are raised everywhere in China, but do you know where the four major fish in China were first domesticated? He is from Huzhou; In addition, do you know who is helping to raise fish in Zhongnanhai, Summer Palace and Beihai in Beijing? I'm also from Huzhou. It's not surprising to talk about eating fish, but have you ever eaten a "Hundred Fish Banquet" consisting of more than 511 dishes? It is also made by famous chefs in Huzhou. It is the skill of Huzhou people to see the strange where it is not strange.

According to research, freshwater fish farming in China has a history of more than 3,111 years. Huzhou occupies a very important space in this history.

Some people who specialize in fish culture say that there are two ancestor festivals of fish culture in China, one is Fan Li and the other is Yang Juncheng. They are not from Huzhou, Fan Li is from Henan and Yang Juncheng is from Nanjing, Jiangsu, but they have lived and raised fish in Huzhou for a long time, which has made them "grandfathers". After the destruction of Wu, Fan Li went boating on Taihu Lake with Xishi, once raised fish in the present Lishanyang River, and then dug pond culture in Fan Zhuang, Nanxun, creating the method of raising fish in the outer river, and wrote the world's earliest monograph on freshwater fish culture, Fish Culture Classic. The Book of Fish Culture has been lost, but it was recorded in Qi Min Yao Shu by Jia Sixie of the Northern Wei Dynasty. Yang Juncheng was a native of the Three Kingdoms. According to Huzhou folklore, he was the first to artificially breed four major fish, namely, green fish, grass fish, silver carp and bighead carp. According to reliable historical data, Huzhou had begun to breed a large number of four major fish in the early Tang Dynasty. These historical evidences and legends are all concentrated in Huzhou, which will never be an accidental phenomenon.

Huzhou's contribution to the history of freshwater fish culture in China is concentrated in Linghu Town. This town under the jurisdiction of Nanxun District has a history of fish farming for more than 2,111 years. With its "Sangji Fish Pond" fish farming method, it has created a traditional fish farming method in China, which constitutes an important part of the history of freshwater fish farming in China. "Mulberry Fish Pond" refers to a kind of production mode of planting mulberry and raising fish, which has a virtuous ecological cycle. Silkworm dung and silkworm chrysalis are fed to fish, and pond mud provides fertilizer for mulberry farmland. The novelty of this traditional fish farming method is that it is still out of date after thousands of years, which has had a great impact on fish farming in northern China and the world. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the International Geophysical Foundation have determined that Linghu Sangji Fish Pond is the only ecological compound agricultural model in China, which is worth popularizing in developing countries. At the same time, Linghu Lake has also been selected as the teaching base of Sangji Fish Pond in the Asia-Pacific Fish Training Center of FAO. According to the author's understanding, in 1982, China Aquaculture Corporation allocated 21,111 yuan to form Linghu Fishery Technical Service Company in Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province, which was responsible for training and sending technicians to support the cultivation of freshwater commercial fish in the north; In 1983, 532 fish technicians from Linghu were sent to Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, Heilongjiang, Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia and Ningxia for the first time. According to reports, where the fish farming technicians in Linghu go, the low-yield fish ponds will achieve high yield. According to statistics, at the end of last century, except Tibet and Taiwan Province, there were 1,111 fish farmers in Linghu who contracted 1.232 million mu of water surface fish farming in all parts of the country. In addition, 21 people have visited more than 11 countries and regions to guide freshwater fish farming. In a research report to the President, the US Commission on Environmental Quality once said: "Most of the current freshwater aquaculture is attributed to pond farming in China, China and Asia". Today's Linghu Lake, with a million mu of fish ponds and 61,111 mu of mulberry fields, is the only "Sangji Fish Pond" with the largest area in China. In recent years, fresh water culture in Linghu Lake has gone out of the "four major fish" mode, and developed more than 31 kinds of famous and special aquatic products, such as river crab, freshwater shrimp, giant shrimp, soft-shelled turtle, perch, Monopterus albus and river eel, many of which have created brands. The perfect combination of tradition and modernity, fish farming in Linghu Lake is a typical example.

Another strange thing about fish farming in Linghu Lake is that fishermen have been sent to Beijing by the state to raise fish for the central authorities in some important water areas such as Zhongnanhai. Among the fishermen who went to Beijing, Shen Jusheng was the most noteworthy. The 77-year-old fish expert entered Beijing in 1955 and raised fish in the Summer Palace, Zhongnanhai and Beihai. After Lao Shen retired in 1981, his son Shen Licheng took over the work and continued to raise fish in Zhongnanhai, Zizhuyuan and longtan lake. It is said that every time Zhongnanhai drags the net for fishing, Shen Licheng is indispensable.

The delicacy of eating fish makes people sit up and take notice of Huzhou: Huzhou people are very tricky in eating fish, and have distinguished the delicious grades of freshwater fish since ancient times, forming a folk saying that "white fish is the best, perch is the second, and mandarin fish is the second". Take fresh fish as an example. Most people are satisfied as long as the fish is alive, but Huzhou people are demanding. They also pay attention to the time when the fish is caught: after being caught for a long time, the fish is frightened. This is called "lost fish". Although it is alive, it is not fresh. Therefore, people in Huzhou eat fish by keeping fresh fish in rivers and harbors, and killing them now. Jia Sidao, a traitor in the Southern Song Dynasty, liked to eat Huzhou live fish, so the local officials ordered fishermen to invent a "living water boat" to ensure that the fish remained fresh as usual after being transported to Lin 'an. It is a great creation of ancient Huzhou people to transport fish by flowing live water. Huzhou people not only pay attention to freshness, but also choose seasons and varieties, which makes it extremely complicated to eat simple fish. However, it is delicious because it is exquisite. How delicious is it? Fascinated many great scholars. Zhang Zhihe, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, wrote a poem "The Fisherman's Song": "Egrets fly in front of the Cisse Mountain, and the peach blossoms are flowing and the mandarin fish are fat". Su Dongpo in the Song Dynasty also wrote that "Artemisia scoparia has short reed buds all over the ground, which is when the puffer fish wants to go up". It looks like a scene, but in fact, between the lines, there is already a greedy face; In another poem by Su Dongpo, Sven was simply left behind: "Wu Er is thin and eager to fly, but he didn't go to talk about it first." There are many "fish delicacies" in Huzhou. In 1979, they also made a "Hundred Fish Banquet". Twenty or thirty kinds of freshwater fish were added with various shrimps and hairy crabs to make more than 511 dishes, which made people eat with them. In 1993, "Hundred Fish Banquet" won the group gold medal in the third national cooking technology competition; In 1995, the "Hundred Fish Banquet" won a special gold medal at the Chinese Food Exhibition in Taiwan Province and a gold medal at the Canadian Chinese Food Industry International Expo, which was called "a unique skill in Chinese cooking".

fish, which is very common to outsiders, has also been made into art and culture by Huzhou people. At present. Linghu town has issued the business card of "China Fish Capital". National fishing parks, fish cultural centers, fish arches, fish sculptures, stone tablet squares, etc. will be built, and they will be combined with the food street. Watch fish, guess fish puzzles, and have a hundred fish banquets on a street of fish culture more than 711 meters long. Fish culture is being refined by Huzhou people.

Huzhou people's fishing skills have not only been passed down for thousands of years along the long history, but also been carried forward. Recently, the author also learned that Huzhou has become the largest white fish breeding base and fry distribution center in China, with an output value of nearly 111 million yuan in 2114, and has been crowned as "the hometown of white fish in China". The inheritance of humanities for thousands of years is not broken and continues to be rich, which is the most fundamental reason why Huzhou is the best in humanities.