China's Four Major Fishes

In the past, these four species of fish could only reproduce their offspring in rivers under natural conditions, and could not spawn and reproduce in still-water ponds. China's main fish fry producing areas were originally the Yangtze, Xiangjiang and Xijiang rivers. Freshwater Fisheries Research Laboratory, South China Sea Fisheries Research Institute, former Ministry of Fisheries.

Cyan fish, Chinese medicine name, animal name. For the carp family animal green Mylopharyngodonpiceus (Richardson) meat. Widely distributed in the Yangtze River basin, up to the Jinsha River, down to the estuary and the plains south of the Yangtze River, North China is relatively rare. It has the effect of resolving dampness and removing paralysis, benefiting qi and harmonizing the middle. Often used in foot and dampness paralysis, weak waist and feet, stomach and epigastric pain, dysentery.