Today's Yongzhou News (correspondent He Dan, Yu Qiaoyan, Liu Ying).The Spring Festival is approaching, and the flavor of the New Year is getting stronger and stronger. In Jiu'anbei Village, Wanjing Town, Ningyuan County, there is a custom of dividing fish into the year, and the villagers gather together to dry the fish pond and catch fish, and share the joy of the harvest.
In the fish pond in the center of the village, the water receded to less than knee deep, and more than a dozen young adults went down to the pond to catch big fish from the muddy water. After a while, a frame of lively fish was pulled ashore and put on the open lawn, including grass carp, silver carp, carp, etc. The villagers were busy washing the fish, loading the fish, weighing them, and then happily bringing home the fish they had received with a variety of tools, such as buckets, basins, and baskets. "Our fishing festival has been passed down for more than 200 years, there are more than 3,000 people in the village, and this fish pond can produce 7,000 to 8,000 catties of fish. When dividing the fish, according to the population, each family can be divided into more than 20 catties, and the less can also be divided into five or six catties, and the fish can be stuffed with tofu, can be steamed, can be boiled, can be made into dried fish, and can be eaten by everyone during the New Year's Festival. Li Yunquan, a villager of Jiu'anbei Village, Wanjing Town, Ningyuan County, introduced.
Jiu'anbei Village is the fifth batch of traditional Chinese villages, with a history of more than 1,100 years. The Hanlin Temple in the village is a national key cultural relics protection unit and is an all-wood structure. The fish pond is located in front of the Hallym Temple, which can not only play a role in fire prevention, but also can be used to raise fish.
The main role of our big pond is to prevent fire, protect this Hanlin Temple, every year to the time of stinging, put some fish fry, at the end of the year to each villager, meaning that there is more than every year, so that everyone can have a happy New Year. Li Quanwang, secretary of the party branch of Jiu'anbei Village, Wanjing Town, Ningyuan County, said happily.