Three white Taihu Lake: white fish, silverfish and white shrimp.

A white Lake Taihu silverfish, more than two inches long, slightly rounded body length, shaped like a jade hairpin, seems to be boneless and gutless, tender and transparent, color like silver, so called silverfish. During the Spring and Autumn period, Lake Taihu was rich in silverfish, the Song Dynasty poet "after the spring silverfish under the frost perch" of the famous line, the silverfish and perch and listed as a fish in the treasures.

Two white Lake Taihu whitefish: "head and tail are up" and named, the body narrow side flat, fine bones and scales, silver glitter, is one of the carnivorous economic fish, mainly relying on natural fishing. Whitefish meat is tender, fat under the scale, like shad, is a valuable fish in Taihu Lake.

Three white Taihu Lake white shrimp: Qing "Taihu Lake Preparatory Examination" on the "Taihu Lake white shrimp A world, ripe when the color is still white" record. White shrimp shell thin, tender meat, delicious flavor, is the people's favorite aquatic products. White shrimp made of "drunken shrimp" on the table, shrimp is still jumping, eat in the mouth, oddly tender exceptionally, fresh and delicious.

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Legend of Lake Taihu White Fish

More than 1,300 years ago, Lake Taihu White Fish was praised by the people of Wuxi as the first fish. Lake Taihu whitefish is also known as Lake Taihu silver knife, rumor has it that there is a moving legend of the origin of this name. According to legend, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Qing soldiers entered Taihu Lake, and Zhang San, a fisherman from Taihu Lake in Suzhou, led a group of people to fight with the Qing soldiers in the area of Taihu Lake, and once even attacked the city of Suzhou. Once, when Zhang San was fighting with the Qing soldiers on the lake, he was hit by an arrow in his arm and his sword fell into the lake. He endured the pain, stooped down to pick up a silver sword from the lake, to kill the Qing soldiers, the Qing soldiers were his bravery to the town, have fled. Zhang San took another look at his hand, it turned out to be a silver glittering white fish, so that the name 'Silver Knife' was called."

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