Do the four big fish have carp? Why don't some people in southern rural areas like carp?

In the folk, the four big fish we usually refer to are herring, grass carp, bighead carp and silver carp, so there is no carp among the four big fish. Because carp has good moral meaning, high ornamental value and wide breeding range, carp is not listed as the four major fish. Another reason is that we all know that the surname of the royal family in the Tang Dynasty is Li, and carp and Li belong to the same pronunciation, so people were forbidden to fish carp in the Tang Dynasty.

In daily life, we will find that some northerners prefer to eat carp, while people in southern rural areas don't like to eat carp, which is also for many reasons. First of all, in some rural areas in the south, many people think that carp is a kind of hair, especially some elderly people, most of whom don't eat carp. Everyone thinks that carp is a hair product, which will be bad for health and cause some old injuries and diseases. This statement is widely circulated in the south, especially in rural areas.

Secondly, carp tastes worse than other fish. In rural areas in the south, there are many kinds of fish that can be eaten, such as grass carp, crucian carp and herring, and the best part of each fish is different. It happens that the most delicious part of carp is its mouth. We can see that the mouth of carp is very small, and the meat on carp is not very delicious. Because carp meat is loose, its taste is very different from other fish, especially carp raised by some people, which can be said to be unpalatable.

Finally, people don't like to eat carp, and another reason is that the cooking process of carp is very troublesome, especially when cleaning and processing carp, we should pay attention to many problems. If it is not handled well, it will have a strong earthy smell, which will test people's cooking skills very much. In some rural areas in the south, people like steamed fish, braised fish and boiled fish. But the fishy smell of carp is too strong to be cooked by these methods, so people don't like to eat carp.