Recently, the 2023 Heilongjiang "Cold Water Fish, Winter Fishing Season" series of activities The second winter fishing festival of Fuyuan City was held on the Heilongjiang River. The Hezhe people carried out winter fishing on the river surface of Heilongjiang, and a head fish weighing more than 170 catties was bought by the bidder at 128888 yuan in the auction.
At the site of the winter fishing activity, the people of the Hezhe ethnic group carried out a traditional prayer ceremony to worship the river. Worship the river and pray for blessings in the fishing production and life of the Hezhe people has a history of nearly 1,000 years, every winter fishing season, the people of the Hezhe people will use their own unique way to worship the river god, hold shaman sacrifices, take holy water, dance blessing dances and other ceremonies, further express the awe and respect for nature, but also for the next year's harvest of good wishes.
More than 170 catties of "head fish" were bought at 128888 yuan.
This winter fishing festival is divided into five sections: the net stage, entering Fuyuan, the winter fishing ceremony, the head fish auction, and the charm of intangible cultural heritage. At 3:40 a.m., the fishermen had already laid their ice eyes, laid their nets, and waited for a bumper harvest. At 6:40 a.m., Fuyuan City's Impression Museum, Fish Museum, Dongji Fish Market, Sturgeon Fish Breeding and Breeding Base and other places were also lively, through multi-point comprehensive display of Fuyuan's historical evolution, city overview, location advantages, folk customs, key projects and relevant knowledge of the fishery resources of the Heiwu River, highlighting Fuyuan City's active practice of the big food concept, and the strong measures to promote the protection, development and utilization of sturgeon.
The auction site of the head fish.
After the mysterious and ancient river worship ceremony, everyone also turned their attention to the most exciting part of the winter fishing activity - the fishermen collected the nets and fished. In the cheerful atmosphere, the fishing nets are tightened more and more, and all kinds of cold-water fish rush to land, and the scene is a bumper harvest of "winter fishing nets, and the fish are fat and beautiful people are singing". As the fishing net was gradually dragged out of the river, a huge farmed sturgeon was dragged out of the water, and in the cheers of the people, this farmed sturgeon with a body length of nearly 2.7 meters and a weight of more than 170 catties became the first fish caught this winter. Surrounded by everyone, the head fish was put on the booth for public auction, after several rounds of fierce bidding, the head fish was auctioned away at a ** of 128888 yuan, and the full amount of the head fish auction will also be used to support and develop Hezhe culture.
Winter fishing. Fuyuan City is located at the confluence of Heilongjiang River and Ussuri River, with more than 400,000 acres of fishable waters, green and pollution-free water environment provides unique natural conditions for the survival and reproduction of cold-water fish, fishing and hunting culture is long, there are 21 families and 105 species such as "Sanhua, Wuluo, Eighteen Sons, Seventy-two Miscellaneous Fish", it is a veritable "cold-water fish capital", and it is one of the only remaining freshwater fish fishing areas in China.
Winter fishing scene. In recent years, in accordance with the work deployment of the provincial party committee and the provincial government to promote the revitalization of cold-water fisheries, Fuyuan City has further integrated fishery resources and promoted the integration of fishery production, gradually transforming from the original "only fishing but not raising" to a development model combining "conservation + fishing and breeding". Fuyuan has set up R&D institutions, built a modern industrial park for sturgeon, laid out the provincial trade and investment cold chain logistics park, and created a whole industrial chain from high-quality cold-water fish seed breeding, breeding and release to caviar, fish products, and prefabricated vegetable processing. The Fuyuan Winter Fishing Festival has gradually upgraded to an important part of the city's agricultural production, becoming a carrier for the development of ecological civilization and ice and snow tourism, and a broad stage for displaying the characteristics of the fishery industry.
Winter fishing scene. Fuyuan City is located in the easternmost part of the motherland, known as the "East Pole of China", is the "hometown of Chinese sturgeon" and "the hometown of Chinese salmon", and is also the area with the most complete species and the largest production of freshwater fish in China.
Correspondents: Chen Lei, Sun Shuyuan;Reporter: Guo Junfeng;Photo: Guo Junfeng;**Guo Junfeng.