Tianjinghu whitebait

Whitebait in Wuhe Tianjing Lake is a specialty of Tianjing Lake in Wuhe County, Bengbu City, Anhui Province. Tianjing Lake in Wuhe County is rich in whitebait and enjoys a long reputation. The fish is large, white and flawless, glittering and translucent, and has a unique golden eye socket. According to county records, the Song Dynasty paid tribute to the imperial court as a "tribute". The whitebait in Tianjing Lake has no scales, no thorns, no fishy smell, fresh and tender, delicate, fresh frozen or dried, and can be used to cook many famous dishes. Such as: whitebait clear soup, whitebait egg shredded soup, hibiscus whitebait, etc., people never tire of eating them, and they are really well-deserved delicacies. Whitebait is a precious special aquatic product, which is one of the important export aquatic products and is known as "soft gold" in the international market. Whitebait is a nutritious aquatic food with high protein, low fat and rich in various trace elements, which is praised as "ginseng in water" by consumers. In addition, whitebait also has medicinal value, with diuretic, lung moistening and cough relieving effects, and is a good health care product among special aquatic products and economic fish. Wuhe River has been rich in whitebait since ancient times. Among them, Tianjing Lake whitebait has a long-standing reputation because of its unique golden eyes. It was once listed as a royal tribute in history, and its annual output exceeded 100,000 kilograms in flood season. In recent years, Wuhe County has stepped up the improvement and restoration of the ecological environment in the water area, and actively taken measures to protect and make good use of whitebait resources, so that the population and output of whitebait in Tianjing Lake have been greatly improved, which is in short supply in the market.
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