Huaiyang Longhu is located in the hinterland of Huanghuai Plain, with a width of 4.4 kilometers from east to west and a length of 2.5 kilometers from north to south. The dike 14 kilometers, with an area of 1 1 square kilometer (16483) and a water area of more than 8,000 mu. Its momentum and scale have overshadowed Hangzhou West Lake and Wuhan East Lake. The lake surrounds the ancient city, which stands in the water; There is a city in the lake, and there is a lake in the city. It is known as the inland wonder, formerly known as Pearl.
Longhu is rich in fish, mainly carp, crucian carp, bream, snakehead, catfish, Pelteobagrus fulvidraco, snakehead (snakehead, snakehead), herring, grass carp and silver carp, among which carp is the most famous and has a long history. As early as the Spring and Autumn Period, Longhu carp was well known. Book of Songs. There was a poem "You can stay under Chen Feng's door late, but you can't eat fish and swim like carp". At that time, Longhu carp was as famous as Yellow River carp. According to the Records of Huaiyang County, in the twelfth year of Yang Di the Great (AD 6 16), carp was found in the female wall of the county, which was more than 7 feet long.
Huaiyang custom, carp symbolizes good luck. When men and women become matchmakers, they must invite them to eat big carp. Wedding banquets, birthday banquets and braised carp are indispensable dishes, especially when the elderly are 73 and 84 years old, children must buy live carp, so that the old birthday star can see it first and then taste it, and wish the elderly a long and healthy life. Huaiyang carp is nutritious and delicious, with a meat yield of over 70%, a protein content of 18.5% and a fat content of 4.6%. It also contains a variety of vitamins and trace elements, and has medicinal and nourishing effects. Chefs in Donghu Fishing Village, Donghu Fish Village, Gong Yu Yupo, Longhu Villa and other restaurants can cook carp into salty, sweet, fragrant, spicy and sour fish pieces, fillets, fish balls and fish soup, as well as tile fish, sour fish, sweet and sour fish, braised fish, spiced fish, fried braised fish, steamed fish, chrysanthemum fish, snowy carp and carp.