Zhoushan’s economy is mainly based on fishing, and there are many types of specialty aquatic products, such as large yellow croaker and white bream (commonly known as white bream), white croaker, golden hook shrimp, South China Sea seaweed, three-baoli fish, and three-legged fish. Alum jellyfish and so on. In terms of development history, Baijiu is the earliest, and in terms of popularity, Baijiu is the most popular. Today, let’s start with Baijiu.

Legend: During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, when Wu and Yue were fighting for hegemony, the soldiers of the Wu State stationed on the islands often ate large yellow croaker. One time, the sergeant returned to Beijing and brought some fish to Fu Chai to try. After eating it, Fu Cha praised the fish and praised it, so people formed the word "fish" into the word "fish". Even if this legend is true, the fish flounder at that time was just salted dried fish. The processing technology that actually made the white flounder delicious and durable for a long time may have happened after the Tang and Song Dynasties. The entry of "Fishing Salt" in "Changguo Prefecture Illustration" written by Dade of the Yuan Dynasty said: "It is different from year to year, but the old reality is that there is no such thing. The people of Gaifuhai make fish and fish every year, and buy more salt for attracting guests. The official has not tasted it. In the 30th year of the Yuan Dynasty, each shipowner was ordered to go to the bureau to inspect the size of the ship's materials and buy salt to pickle fish. In the first year of Dade, more than 800 fish were bought. "The swim bladder, which weighs 80 kilograms per year, began in the 30th year of the Yuan Dynasty." These records show that the aquatic product processing industry was quite developed at that time. However, it is still impossible to prove the correct age of white bream production. The written records that can be found now are from the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty. At that time, fish merchants from Zhenhai and other places set up factories in Shajiao, Daishan, to make bream and split it by hand with a "knife". Fish, big wooden barrels, fish, and its technology has been perfected. By the eve of the Anti-Japanese War, there were nearly 500 aquatic product processing factories of various types in the region, including 303 in Daishan and 162 in Dongsha Town. In the mid-1970s, the author once visited a "fish factory" in Chang Tu and saw the "swordsman" quickly chop the fish and then put the fish into a large wooden barrel - it should be called a pond. There is such a big pond in the residents' homes. barrel? It’s about the same size as the wooden barrel used in Pidford’s wall-walking performance, but not as deep. After being stained, it is rinsed, dried and other processes, and it becomes delicious white bream. White bream was what I used to eat before liberation. It is one of the main export commodities of the district. In the 21st year of the Republic of China, our district exported 4,000 tons of various aquatic products, of which white catfish accounted for a large proportion. In the 1950s, there were still a small amount of white catfish exported to Southeast Asian countries. Since the 1960s, with the development of the freezing industry and the decline of large yellow croaker resources, the white catfish processing industry has actually been eliminated.

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