Brief introduction of Zhengzhou gourmet yellow river carp

Carp is flat and tall in shape, golden in color, beautiful and bright, with large scales and sparkling. It is the best freshwater fish in China, and the Yellow River carp is the best. "The carp of the Yellow River is the fattest in the world." The carp of the Yellow River is fat and fleshy, with pure meat, tender and delicious taste and rich nutrition, so it is famous at home and abroad. Anyone who travels to Zhengzhou and Kaifeng wants to taste the delicious food there. Compared with carp from other places, the muscle of Yellow River carp has higher protein content and lower fat content. It is rich in eight amino acids and four umami amino acids, as well as three trace elements such as iron, copper and zinc, and many elements such as calcium, magnesium and phosphorus.

Carp, as a dish, has been an indispensable raw material for folk festivals and banquets since ancient times and is one of the famous products in Henan. In recent years, conservation zone, a national aquatic germplasm of Yellow River carp in Zhengzhou section of the Yellow River, invested by the state, mainly protects the Yellow River carp, including gongyi city, Xingyang, Huiji, Jinshui and zhongmou county. The reserve has two core areas (Huayuankou core area and Luo Yi River core area) and two experimental areas. But with what? The rapid development of freshwater aquaculture also has artificial farmers.

Yellow River carp is tender and delicious. As early as 3,000 years ago, in the Book of Songs, there was a saying that "those who eat fish are carp that go downstream" and "Luo carp is as expensive as cattle and sheep", which is better than eating. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the Yellow River carp was regarded as a valuable gift. According to Historical Records Confucius Family, in the thirteenth year of King Jing of Zhou, that is, the ninth year of Emperor Zhao of Lu (533 BC), Confucius was nineteen years old and married the daughter of an official in the Song Dynasty. A year later, Guan Qi gave birth to a son for Confucius. Confucius was just a small official in charge of the warehouse-an imperial envoy, but he was appreciated by Lu. Zhao Gong sent a big carp to congratulate him. Confucius regarded it as a great honor for the monarch to personally give things, so he named his son carp, the word "Bo fish" (later Confucius called it "red fish" because he was afraid of carp, and used carp instead of carp to worship his ancestors). In the Han Dynasty, Lang wrote a poem praising "I seek delicacies and eat carp on a golden plate", which shows that carp was already a famous dish at that time. Tao Hongjing of the Liang Dynasty said that carp is the "crown of hundreds of fish". The Compendium of Materia Medica in Song Dynasty listed carp as "delicious food". "Qingbarnyard grass copy" more clearly says that "the carp in the Yellow River is very good, while others are" coarse in meat and poor in taste ... not produced in the Yellow River in Ruoyu Province ",which fully shows that although carp are widely distributed in China, the carp in the Yellow River in Henan Province is the most precious.