Chapter 2 Section 2 grinning fish

It took me a long time to find the groin of the crocodile fish. In the era of manual writing, I have seen many ways of writing it, but it is difficult for any one way of writing to dominate the world.Contains: minnow, also known as white minnow. "Xunzi" said: Minnow is a fish that floats on the water, and it is most suitable for pickling into slices.Now the north still calls this fish as white minnow, which is estimated to belong to the original story, and the minnow is called in the southeast of Hubei.It is quite laborious to find the characters of 黪. One way of writing is next to the word for fish, and the word for meal is on the right. The son of the river, no problem; the other is scurrying, and there is nothing wrong with scurrying, this fish just moves around, or drifts with the current; the other is trevally, but its pronunciation is shen, which refers to a kind of fish with flat sides and high scales. Thin, small tail peduncle, rich in fish in subtropical oceans.In addition, there are some ways of writing, which I feel are all attached. It is really easy to catch a fish, but difficult to find a fish name, and it is even more difficult to find the fish name of an ordinary fish. I define it as a cultural burden.

Lin, light blue and black ("Shuowen").Lin, black also ("Guang Ya").This color is exactly the color of the back of the grinfish, light blue-black.There are many rivers, lakes, ponds, harbors and streams in the south, and greyfish swim leisurely among them. I saw such a black one, and sometimes it shoots like a dart, also known as shuttle. What you see is the light blue and black back. The name should be an intuitive reflection.It is called minnow in the north. It should be a fish when viewed from a plane, but it is indeed a silvery white fish, and it is very silvery. It is not easy to see graylings in serious fish markets. Even in the fish markets of cities along rivers and lakes in the south, small wild fishes graylings are the last ones to chat with. If you meet a seller by chance, put it in a frame and cover it with strips of green aquatic plants, you will know it comes from the lake.In Beijing, it is not easy to find gringers. Now I can occasionally see them in the Baliqiao seafood market. When I lived in Fengtai, I could see them under the railway bridge. They were some people selling small fish and shrimps. There are crucian carp, squid, gringer and small shrimp.I asked them, where did they catch these wild fish?They answered that they caught it from the Guanting Reservoir, claiming it was poached, and they sold it under the railway bridge to avoid industry and commerce.During that time, I ate a lot of cheap and fresh wild fish.The way I deal with gringa is to fry it first, take it out of the pan, stir-fry green peppers, and add shredded ginger. When it is almost cooked, add fried fish and stir-fry. The fish meat is delicious and slightly spicy, and two backs can be pulled out. The fish belly is thin, but it is crispy, and the spines are crispy after frying.

In the south, there are many opportunities to eat gringa, and I have used two methods to catch it.Grating fish live on the water surface, with a slender, flat and narrow body, extremely fast swimming, timid and quick response, and are difficult to catch, so fishing is a method.Fishing greyfish is also called "brushing" greyfish. Use a gentle hand pole, the smallest thin fishing line, the smallest hook, no tin pendants, and no floats. Go to the cabbage field to catch a can of small caterpillars to do it. bait.Hook the caterpillar, swing the pole into the water, and drag the caterpillar to recover. When the grinfish meets it, it bites it quickly and catches it.If you don't bite the hook, throw it again.If you encounter a group of greyfish, you can catch them frequently. The weight is not much, but it is very interesting.The other is the lower screen, which has a small float on the top and a pendant on the bottom, usually a finger-and-a-half wide mesh. The net is two feet wide and about two to three feet long. When Ziyu rushed over, he got stuck on the net and couldn't get over it. When he retreated, the thread got stuck in his gills and he couldn't run away.The mesh is very thin, and when it hits a greyfish, the small float on it will vibrate sharply, you can pick it up, or you can put it away and pick it up all at once.

When I was young, I lived at my grandmother’s house. At that time, there were still fishermen in Daye Lake. There was a large grin in the lake, which was 20 cm long, with a black back, yellow belly, or dark patterns. Tie it up, and often throw it on the awning of the boat to dry. The dried fish is steamed with broad bean paste, shredded ginger and dried red pepper. The steamed fish body is oily, and the fish meat with fish oil has more fish fragrance. Knotty, delicate, we all love it.I often catch it in Luoqiao Lake and Sike Lake. For a while, we liked to go fishing in a place called Huajiaojing. There was an artificial river with stepped banks, and there was a vague slogan on the bank, "Water conservancy is The lifeblood of agriculture”, where many lake fish can be caught when the water is high. I especially like to take the ferry across the river, which costs 20 cents.In some other reservoirs and ponds, gringers can also be caught from time to time. It is said that the scorpions it produces can fly with the wind and fall into the water as fish. Therefore, wherever there is water, there are gringers.

Thinking about it, "swiping" greyfish is an elegant gesture, with a basket on one's back, a pole in hand, and a leisurely swing, and a bright silver greyfish is thrown fiercely, just like a magician.Later, a hook specially imported from Japan was imported from Japan. There was goose down on the hook, so there was no need to bait it. When the hook fell on the water, the gringfish thought it was food, took a bite, and took the bait. Fish are short-sighted, or they swim too fast.I remember that there is a little friend surnamed Huang opposite me who specializes in "fishing" graylings. I have never seen him catch other fish species.One day he asked me to "brush" greyfish, and I said I wanted to catch snakehead, thinking how fulfilling it would be to catch a big snakehead?Let's go, he "brushes" greyfish, and I catch snakehead.The method of catching snakehead is different. It is to use a thick pole, thick line and thick hook to hang a small soil toad, and the hanging soil toad is shaking on the water plants. Float head to rest, and sometimes lead a group of small black fish to play.In the hot summer afternoon, it is true that people get oily from the sun, mainly on the back, and sweating in other places.My friend "swiped" a lot of gringa, but I didn't catch a black fish.However, I finally walked in front of a piece of aquatic plants, which are ordinary needle-shaped aquatic plants, with water chestnut vines on the side, the vines are red, and small yellow flowers are blooming on the vines, which are very colorful. There is a big black fish there, my friend, I saw it first, he Say, go fishing, it's right in front of you.After all, he changed his mind and said, let me fish for you, I am better than you.I insist on fishing by myself, fishing is a kind of joy.The little friend insisted that he come to fish, and he came to snatch my fishing rod and said, I won’t give it to you if I catch it, and I promise Mao that our family will not eat black fish.When I thought about it, it was true, he had always been a fisherman for graylings, and since he had never caught blackfish before, he reluctantly let go and asked him to help me catch them.The toad landed in front of the black fish, a splash of water swirled and created a vortex, shattering the golden sun on the water, the black fish bit the hook fiercely, the little friend flung it vigorously, caught the black fish, and quickly took off the hook, I stretched out my hand to take it and have a look, what a surprise, such a big black fish!However, the little friend dodged his body and didn't let me catch the fish. He bent down and quickly stretched out his other hand to pick up his fishing rod, and ran home as if flying.I stood there in a daze, the cicadas on the willows were screaming impetuously, the sun was shining fiercely on me, and the aquatic plants slowly floated up and recovered in the clear water. I was stunned by the sudden change.When I woke up, my little friend had passed through several rice fields, turned over a ridge and disappeared, and only his happy smile flashed in front of my eyes.There is no one who does not eat black fish, I think.I walked along the river in frustration for a while, and went home empty-handed without encountering any black fish.

In Beijing, the editor of the magazine invited me to taste the red grilled shark fin made by Wang Tao, the executive chef of Jinchilou. The editor is also called Wang Tao. .After clinking glasses, he invited me to his Dajiangxia Restaurant to taste his handicrafts. I went later, and there were several other culinary masters at the same table, as well as the editor-in-chief of "Chinese Food" magazine, a retired senior official from the forestry department, and Xi Jinping. For a while, I served a soil bowl of "Little Fish in the Wild Lake". This dish instantly led me back to my hometown. I like it very much.After drinking, I asked him how to make it, and I wanted to do it when I went back. I went to the Baliqiao dried vegetable market to look for it, but I found it. There is also the dried "wild lake small fish" here, 12 yuan a catty, and I bought a catty. It was brewed according to the law, but the taste was not as good as Chen Xurong's craftsmanship, so I asked him for advice on the phone. He said that a little lard should be added when cooking to enhance the taste.It suddenly dawned on me that I don’t use lard in my cooking, thinking that it adds fat, but I never thought that other people might put lard in their cooking. "Little fish in the wild lake" includes the small gringa and other small fish. I can name them in the dialect of southeast Hubei, but I can't express them in Mandarin. Anyway, they are small fish in the wild lake.