What is the legend of the origin of the Taihu Lake whitebait?

Legend has it that in ancient times, there was a better woman, her husband was conscripted by the emperor to serve hard labor, she ate and ate at night, traveled a long distance, and turned to find her husband, as a result, her husband had died tragically The woman's grief and pain device, day and night, crystal tears turned into such a silver fish. Whitebait, commonly known as noodle fish, or noodle pin fish, several inches in length, body length slightly round, according to legend, King Wu ate more than enough to abandon in the water, turned into fish, also known as the remnant fish in ancient times (the name of the silverfish because it swims in the lake, such as the silver arrow off the string).

There is a beautiful legend about the whitebait in Taihu Lake. At the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, Fan Li used the "beauty strategy" to help King Goujian of Yue destroy the state of Wu through Xi Shi (Shi Yiguang). After the success, the wife of Gou Jian, the first lady of the Yue Kingdom, thought that Xi Shi was a "disaster water" on the side, so she made Xi Shi sink into Taihu Lake.

A generation of beauties, the incense was sold and the jade died, and the corpses turned into a silver ruler fish with ice and jade.

Another version of the legend of the silverfish is that the Qin Dynasty had a high level of cheating. Qin Shi Huang conscripted the people to build the Great Wall, Meng Jiangnu's husband Fan Xiliang was also among the recruits, the northern country was cold, Meng Jiangnu thousands of miles to find her husband to send winter clothes, she arrived at the side, found that her husband had Bu Pei was not in the world, on the way back to the south, crying all the way, tears fell into Taihu Lake and turned into silverfish.

1.There is a beautiful legend about the whitebait in Taihu Lake.

2.At the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, Fan Li used the "beauty strategy" to help King Goujian of Yue destroy the state of Wu through Xi Shi (Shi Yiguang).

3.After the success, the wife of Gou Jian, the first lady of the Yue Kingdom, thought that Xi Shi was a "disaster water" on the side, so she made Xi Shi sink into Taihu Lake.

4.A generation of beauties, incense and jade, the body turned into a piece of ice-clear and jade silverfish.

5.Another version of the legend of the silverfish is a matter of the Qin Dynasty.

6.Qin Shi Huang conscripted the people to build the Great Wall, Meng Jiangnu's husband Fan Xiliang was also among the recruits, the north was cold, Meng Jiangnu thousands of miles to find her husband to send winter clothes, she went to the side, found that her husband was no longer in the world, on the way back to the south, all the way to cry, tears fell into Taihu Lake into a silver fish.

Taihu whitebait is a freshwater fish, about 7 to 10 centimeters long, slightly round in length, delicate and transparent, and the color is like silver, hence the name. Produced in the mouth of the Yangtze River, the body is slightly larger, commonly known as "noodle fish" and "noodle fish". Taihu Lake whitebait, has a long history, according to the "Taihu Lake Preparation" record, Wu Yue Spring and Autumn Period, Taihu Lake prosperous silverfish.

The Song people have the famous sentence "silverfish frost perch after spring", and the whitebait and perch are listed as treasures among fish. During the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, whitebait was listed as a tribute, and it was called the "Three Treasures of Taihu Lake" together with white shrimp and white water fish. Taihu Lake whitebait is shaped like a hosta, delicate and transparent, and the color is like silver, so it is called whitebait.

During the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, it was listed as a "tribute". Production in 1987 was 8,854 tons.

Whitebait is rich in nutrition, delicate meat, white and tender, no scales and no thorns, no bones and no intestines, no fish, and contains a variety of nutrients. Most of the chilled whitebait is exported and exported overseas, and it is called "fish ginseng". The dried whitebait made by exposure to the sun has the color, fragrance and taste, and the shape remains unchanged for a long time.

Whitebait can be cooked into a variety of famous dishes, such as scrambled eggs with whitebait, dry-fried whitebait, boiled soup with whitebait, whitebait balls, whitebait spring rolls, whitebait wontons, etc., all of which are unique lake delicacies.

There are four varieties of Taihu Lake whitebait, Taihu Lake short-nosed whitebait, oligodont whitebait, large silverfish and Lei's whitebait. The production is high in the big whitebait and Taihu short-nose whitebait. Taihu Lake whitebait spawns on the reeds and aquatic grass stems on the shore of Taihu Lake in spring, and the production period is mainly concentrated from mid-May to mid-to-late June every year, which is also the flood season for whitebait fishing.

Dongshan has the saying that "loquat yellow in May, Taihu Yincha regrets fish fat".