Grudge Beidu Fish (originally published in "Chinese Food Geography") You can hardly find Beidu on the map.

However, among Jianghu dishes, Beidu and Beidu Fish are well-known names.

Beidu is located in Qijiang County under the jurisdiction of Chongqing City.

Qijiang, in the past, I only knew that it produced coal, but I didn’t know what other products it had.

Later, what made me remember Qijiang again was the Rainbow Bridge collapse in 1998.

Now, Beidu Fish has entered my mouth, and Qijiang has deepened its impression in my mind.

Grudges Beidu Fish ⒈ From Qijiang to Beidu, the shepherd boy pointed out that Xinghuachun Qijiang is 37 kilometers away from Chongqing, and the entire journey is a highway with excellent road conditions.

Through the car window, I looked at the outside scene of the fresh rain. I never expected that the scenery along the way was so beautiful.

Mountains and mountains unfold toward our eyes in turn. Mountain fog surrounds the mountainside, and we can vaguely see the villages in the valleys.

Some mountains are covered with patches of pine trees, which are both spectacular and charming.

I wanted to stop and take some pictures of the scenery, but unfortunately the light was weak, so I planned to take them on the way back.

It only took more than thirty minutes to arrive at Qijiang County.

If you just look at the street, you can easily see the restaurant about Beidu Fish.

Local residents said that the relatively large-scale Beidu fish restaurants here include Qihechun and Yuxiangchun.

A truck driver knew that we were here to interview Beidu Fish and said very enthusiastically that Beidu is only 16 kilometers away from the county seat. Go right after crossing the bridge and the road conditions are not bad.

We thanked the master and continued our journey to the north.

Beidu is a small town with charming scenery.

A bridge connects the two sides of Beidu, and the Qihe River flows under the bridge.

I have been to many towns with rivers, bridges and delicious food, such as Tai'an, Qiuxi, Laifeng, Yuxi, Jiangkou, Suji... The Beidu in front of me is similar to them.

It also has a distinct difference. It is quiet, clean, and rarely polluted. There is no sediment on the river, and there are no dead pigs or cats. There is a ten-foot-square net set up by the fishermen at the river.

You can also see the angler's fishing rod with beautiful curves under the shade of the trees.

Both sides of the shore are covered with lush trees and bamboo forests, as well as endless green mountains, and the empty sky is distant and blurry.

What interests me very much is that Beidu Bridge is the dividing point between Qijiang and Jiangjin.

On this side is Beidu Township in Qijiang County, and on the opposite side is Pengqiao Township, which belongs to Guangxing Town in Jiangjin County.

Before the bridge was repaired, it had to rely on a pier to ferry people to and from the bridge. The so-called Beidu got its name from this.

Although Pengqiao belongs to Jiangjin and Guangxing, it is 20 miles away from Guangxing. Whether it is production, trading or daily life, it is not as convenient as Beidu across the river. Even Qijiang County is far away from Pengqiao than Guangxing.

The bridge is even closer, only 14 miles away.

Therefore, Pengqiao people sometimes feel that they are more like Qijiang people, or simply Beidu people.

So much so that the Jianghu dish first created in Pengqiao was named "Beidu Fish" by diners, and they accepted it happily without making any arguments.

So far, there is no famous Beidu fish restaurant in Beidu Township.

But the people in Beidu are hospitable, answer all questions, and are not vague in giving directions.

At Qiaotou in Qijiang, I asked a man selling cigarettes where the earliest Beidu fish restaurant was. The enthusiastic man pointed to the other side and said, in Pengqiao, the old one is Qihe Chun, and Yingfenglou, Yuxiangchun.

The man's guidance made us feel as if we had entered the artistic conception of an ancient poem: "Ask where the restaurant is, the shepherd boy pointed to the apricot blossom spring." On Pengqiao Road, there are many fish shops with the Beidu Fish sign, and the names are so popular.

There are also many kinds, but the themes all prove that they are the oldest, the most authentic, the first and so on.

Needless to say, there has long been a battle to rectify the name here. Just like many places where quacks were invented that I have visited, everyone was mixed up in chaos.

In the catering industry, place names and fish names cannot be registered as trademarks, so it is difficult for a new dish combining a place name and a fish name to be legally protected.

Fortunately, as long as the founder does not leave the place and does not fail the business, the local place will give the founder a title to confirm who is the first and who is the most authentic.

The people do not use the tactic of calling a deer a horse. The people speak according to their conscience and justice.

It's a pity that if an outsider passes by this place, how much time and energy does he have to investigate who is the first?

⒉In Pengqiao, we met a local cook by chance. While asking the local aborigines who was the founder of Beidu Fish, we discovered that a family was holding a funeral on the street.

A huge plastic sheet was set up as a tent, with more than a dozen tables of banquets placed underneath. The country cook and his staff were busy cooking the nine bowls they were best at - China's most simple country feast.

This kind of original folk food activity is rare. We immediately decided to interview and photograph the activities of the local cooks.

Just as we were setting up our cameras to take pictures, an energetic old man came over to us and asked us if we were reporters from a food magazine.

In fact, he asked knowingly, because he had already seen the words "Chinese Food Geography" printed on our T-shirts.

I said that we came to Beidu to interview the inventor of Beidu Fish. The old man said enthusiastically that he was the inventor of Beidu Fish and his shop was nearby, called Yingfeng Building.

I said, no, some people say that Qihechun is the founder of Beidu Fish.