2018 Chagan Lake Winter Fishing Guide for Huma Winter Fishing on the Sino-Russian Boundary River

The severe cold at the beginning of 2018 is bone-chilling, but there are still a large number of winter fishing cultural festivals held in the northernmost region of our country. People carry out the most primitive fishing operations in the ice and snow. Let me share with you below Winter hunting strategy in Jianghuma on the Sino-Russian border.

Every winter, the winter fishing at Chagan Lake in Jilin is a must-see. Just watching the ritual of worshiping the lake god and awakening the winter net makes people all over the country freeze for a while. No, just a few days ago, the 16th Chagan Lake Ice and Snow Fishing and Hunting Culture and Tourism Festival officially kicked off. Tourists from all over the country witnessed this traditional Mongolian ceremony of offering sacrifices to the lake and waking up the net. At the end of the ceremony, the commander-in-chief of winter fishing "Fish Leader" gave the order, and the huge winter fishing operation kicked off. N fishing brigades cut the ice and lowered the nets. N big horses pulled the winches and covered the big nets at once. N square kilometers

until finally fish came out. At this year's head fish auction ceremony, a "head fish" weighing 4 kilograms had a starting price of 168,888 yuan, and was finally sold at a transaction price of 918,888 yuan, setting a new record for winter head fish fishing in Chagan Lake. It should be said that winter fishing is the most successful case of activating all intangible cultural heritage in China.

The performance of fishing and hunting culture symbolized by the winter fishing in Chagan Lake that everyone has seen is very grand, but in Huma County in the Daxinganling region of Heilongjiang Province, on the border river between China and Russia, what I saw was A person's Dugudong catch! Compared with the vigorous winter fishing in Chagan Lake, this most primitive winter fishing by one person at minus 35 degrees is more salty and flavorful.

Huma. The border river between China and Russia - the Chinese side of Heilongjiang. One man's primitive winter hunt.

The border river between China and Russia - on the Chinese side of the frozen Heilongjiang River, a man, without those rituals and red tape to wake up winter nets, carries an ice pick and shovel, and looks at the location. , and then there are the series of programmed actions for winter fishing, such as digging ice holes with ice shovels, twisting spears, running water lines, and lowering nets. There is also a net inlet, an outlet, and a circle of thick wire as a pulling rod

< p>Huma fisherman Lao Zhao alone in winter.

The Daxinganling area is undoubtedly the coldest place in China.

Although the national lowest temperature of -53.2 degrees monitored by the Central Meteorological Observatory occurred in Huzhong District in the Greater Khingan Mountains, and Huzhong declared to the country and was approved as the coldest town landmark in China, but people in Heilongjiang , but they all said that Huma is the coldest in the country.

Indeed. During our endless self-driving trip to Daxinganling in our new Ford Escape, we used Moji Weather to check the temperature in real time wherever we went. Indeed, the absolute value of subzero in Huma was higher than that in Huzhong.

How cold is it?

This is the style that our fellow travelers wore in Wudalianchi at -35 degrees Celsius: the edges of the mask and hat were completely covered with ice.

A cup of boiling water was poured into the air in an even arc. Under the sun, a beautiful arc instantly appeared, with an extremely fine awn shape on the edge. The boiling water was no longer splashed into the air like normal. It immediately falls and showers you, but atomizes into ice. The necessary and sufficient condition for atomization into ice is that the ambient temperature is around -30 degrees.

In such extremely cold temperatures, if your face is exposed, your skin will feel as painful as a knife cut even if there is no wind, so you must wear a large face mask or neck gaiter.

But after wearing these things and protecting the face, breathing becomes difficult. At such a temperature, the exhaled breath turns into frost when it comes out in the first breath, and becomes frosty when it comes out in the second breath. The original frost has turned into ice.

Huma, the border river between China and Russia. sunrise.

This is the style that our fellow travelers were abused in Wudalianchi at -35 degrees: Myopia makes it almost impossible to walk!

This is the style I wore when it was -35 degrees: my eyelashes have turned into ice.

In such a temperature, this local man named Huma Zhao has to use ice picks and shovels to dig ice holes. It is a manual job. There is nothing to say. I can also follow the instructions ladle.

However, when he started to pull the net, in the small hole in the ice, in the light blue and transparent river water, the small fish were caught in the net and flapped desperately. With the extremely fine net, little by little Leaving the water, those small fish also quickly left the 4-degree river water, and were instantly exposed to an environment of minus 35 degrees. The temperature difference between the river and the surface was nearly 40 degrees, coupled with the lack of oxygen, although this little fish jumped desperately, it was 7 Within seconds of his memory, he probably felt strongly that his blood was coagulating rapidly.

The fisherman surnamed Zhao took off his gloves, bare his hands, caught the small fish on the wet net, and carefully took it out of the net. , the hand that steals human body temperature is soaked in the water that has just emerged from the river. In an environment of -35 degrees, it is tantamount to being tortured!

The Huma-China-Russia border river at minus 35 degrees Celsius: a person’s most primitive winter fishing scene.

I experienced the physical work of digging an ice hole with an ice hammer.

The first fish that came out of the net was probably his first fish, weighing up to 2 ounces. A sister-in-law next to him helped him hold the fishing net so that he could completely remove the fish. He said, be careful. If the gills of the fish are damaged and the fish is not in good condition, it will be difficult to sell.

The nets were all pulled up, and the caught fish looked very much like Sichuan yellow pepper fish. There were about 10 of them, and they were very small, weighing only about 2 kilograms. According to the sister-in-law next to me, this fish is called Yaluo, and it only costs about 16 yuan per pound on the market.

Why is it so hard to catch fish for only 16 yuan per pound? The sister-in-law said that this fish is very common in Heilongjiang, but it is relatively rare for other provinces. The main reason is that transportation is difficult.

The Huma-China-Russia border river at minus 35 degrees Celsius: a person’s most primitive winter fishing scene.

I guess many of the questions I asked the fisherman surnamed Zhao seemed "idiotic" to him. In his strong Northeastern dialect, many prefixes, suffixes and even final sounds of local language expressions were lingering in his mouth, but they just couldn't come out, so I also heard it in a fog.

According to what Lao Zhao said, I came back to check the information. The written statement is that Heilongjiang is a land of plenty, and the most famous delicacies among the fish in its rivers are Sanhuawuluobazi.

What Lao Zhaodong caught was the Northeast Yaluo fish, one of the five species - one of the famous indigenous fish in Heilongjiang, and also the cold water of Heilongjiang, Wusuli River, Nenjiang, Mudanjiang Jingbo Lake and other river systems. The best among freshwater fish. Among the five Luo, Yaluo, Huluo and Tongluo are all small. Because they are too small, there is very little internal movement.

It is rare to taste it if you don’t go to Heilongjiang or Wusuli River. The largest Yaluo among the small Luo usually only weighs one or two pounds, and the largest Yaluo only weighs about half a catty. Because it reproduces quickly and likes to travel in groups, it is easy to catch all year round, but it is difficult to sell far away (it is highly perishable). , so the price in the local area is basically "cabbage price". For example, in Huma or Yichun Jiayin County, this fish is the "cabbage" on their tables in spring, summer and autumn. Of course, this mainly refers to spring, summer and autumn.

Huma. Sino-Russian border. China's boundary monument No. 173. Lao Zhao's winter hunting was in the middle of the frozen river about 100 meters behind the boundary monument.

In the eyes of Heilongjiang people, getting "big cabbage" is so difficult. This reminds me of classmate Fan Zhongyan's famous saying: "People come and go on the river, but they love the beauty of sea bass. You can see a boat with a leaf. "In the storm"

If what Fan Zhongyan saw in his childhood boots was today's difficult scene of a man hunting in winter, would his eternal famous saying have a different artistic conception?