It is the skill of Huzhou people to see strangeness in places where it is not strange.
According to research, freshwater fish farming in China has a history of more than 3000 years.
Huzhou occupies a very important space in this period of history.
Some people who specialize in fish culture say that there are two ancestral 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, making them "grandfathers".
After the destruction of Wu, he went boating in Taihu Lake, once raised fish in the present river, then dug ponds in Nanxun, created the method of raising fish in the outer river, and wrote the world's earliest monograph on freshwater fish culture Classic.
The book "Fish Culture" has been lost, but Jia Sixie in the Northern Wei Dynasty recorded it in the Book of Qi Yaomin.
Yang Juncheng was from the Three Kingdoms period. According to Huzhou folklore, he was the first to artificially breed four major fishes: herring, grass carp, silver carp and bighead carp.
According to reliable historical records, Huzhou began to breed a large number of four major fish as early as the early Tang Dynasty.
These historical evidences and legends are concentrated in Huzhou, which will never be an accidental phenomenon.
Huzhou's contribution to the cultural history of freshwater fish in China is reflected in linghu town.
The town under the jurisdiction of Nanxun District has a history of fish farming for more than 2,000 years. With its "Sangji Fish Pond" fish culture method, it initiated the traditional fish culture method in China and constituted an important part of the freshwater fish culture history in China.
"Mulberry fish pond" refers to a kind of production mode of mulberry and fish farming, which is a virtuous circle of ecology. Silkworm excrement and pupae feed fish, and pond mud provides fertilizer for mulberry fields.
The novelty of this traditional fish farming method is that it is still out of date after thousands of years, which has had a great impact on fish farming in northern China and even the world.
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization and the International Geophysical Foundation have determined that Linghu Sangji Fish Pond is the only eco-compound agricultural model in China, which is worth popularizing in developing countries. At the same time, Linghu Lake was also selected as the teaching base of Sangji fish pond by the Asia-Pacific Fish Training Center of FAO.
According to the author's understanding, in 1982, China Aquaculture Corporation allocated 20,000 yuan to set up Linghu Fishery Technical Service Company in Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province, responsible for training and sending technicians to support the cultivation of commercial freshwater fish in the north; 1983, 532 fish technicians were sent to Linghu for the first time, and they were sent to Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, Heilongjiang, Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, Ningxia and other provinces.
According to reports, where the fish technicians in Linghu go, the low-yield fish ponds will reach high yield.
According to statistics, at the end of last century, except Tibet and Taiwan Province Province, there were 1 10,000 fish farmers in Linghu who contracted10.232 million mu of fish farming on the water surface all over the country.
In addition, 20 people visited more than 10 countries and regions to guide freshwater fish culture.
In a research report to the President, the US Commission on Environmental Quality once said: "At present, most freshwater aquaculture is attributed to pond farming in China, China and Asia".
Today, Linghu Lake has 654.38+ 10,000 mu of fish ponds and 60,000 mu of mulberry fields, which is the only "mulberry field fish pond" with the largest area in China.
In recent years, fresh water culture in Linghu Lake has gone out of the "four big fish" mode, and more than 30 kinds of excellent aquatic products have been developed, such as river crab, green shrimp, giant shrimp, soft-shelled turtle, perch, eel 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 are sent by the state to Beijing to raise fish for the central government in some important waters such as Zhongnanhai.
Among the fishermen who went to Beijing, Shen Jusheng was the most noteworthy.
A 77-year-old fish expert 1955 went to Beijing to raise fish in the Summer Palace, Zhongnanhai and Beihai.
After Lao Shen 1980 retired, his son Shen Licheng took over 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 particular about 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 are alive, but Huzhou people are very demanding. They also pay attention to the time when the fish is caught: if it is caught for a long time, the fish will be frightened. This is called "lost fish". Although it is alive, it is not fresh.
So people in Huzhou eat fish and raise fresh fish in rivers and harbors, and now they kill them.
Jia Sidao, a traitor in the Southern Song Dynasty, liked to eat Huzhou live fish, so local officials ordered fishermen to invent a "living water boat" to ensure that the fish could still be 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, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, wrote a poem "Fishing Songs": "Egrets fly in front of the Cisse Mountain, and the peach blossoms are flowing and the mandarin fish are fat."
Su Dongpo also wrote in the Song Dynasty that "Artemisia selengensis is full of short reed buds, which is the time when puffer fish want to go up".
Seemingly a scene, in fact, between the lines, there is already a greedy face; In another poem by Su Dongpo, Sven was simply left behind: "I was thin and wanted to fly, but I didn't talk about it first."
There are many "fish smells" in Huzhou. 1979 They also made a "Hundred Fish Banquet", using 20 or 30 kinds of freshwater fish and various shrimps and crabs to cook more than 500 dishes, which made people eat with each passing day.
1993 "Hundred Fish Banquet" won the gold medal of the third national cooking technology competition; 1995 "Hundred Fish Banquet" won a special gold medal at the Chinese Food Exhibition in Taiwan Province Province and a gold medal at the Canadian Chinese Catering Industry International Expo, which was called "one-stop cooking skill" in China.
Fish, a common thing for outsiders, has also been made into art and culture by Huzhou people.