Chenzhou Village Travel Guide

Now Chenzhou Village has become a tourist village. There is a road connected to the land, and RVs can drive directly there.

Chenzhou Village is located on the south bank of Changsha Bay, northwest of Hongcao Town, and about 8 kilometers northwest of Hongcaopu. Chenzhou was originally an isolated island, surrounded by the sea, and settled along the northeast and southwest of the foothills. Published in blocks. In 2009, the total population of Chenzhou was 2,038. The economy of Chenzhou Village is mainly based on marine aquaculture, as well as shallow sea fishing and agriculture. It is famous for its oyster culture.

Chenzhou oysters are well-known for their fatness, tenderness, freshness and beauty. The oysters produced by Chenzhou, as well as the caught shrimps such as Penaeus mergui, shrimps monodon, New Penaeus brucei and crabs are sold far away. In Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Hong Kong and other places, drying oysters is a traditional handicraft side industry in the village. There are more than a dozen dried oyster processing factories in the village, among which the Marine Oyster Industry and Chenzhou Oyster Island are the most famous.

Introduction to oysters

Oysters are the general name for molluscs of the order Oysteridae and the order Oysteridae. They are commonly known as sea oysters, oysters, etc. The shells are nearly elongated, round, or triangular, and are affected by the external environment. Affected, the shell shape is extremely irregular, and the two shells are unequal. The left shell is larger and protruding to support life, while the right shell is slightly smaller and flatter. The outer covering is scaled and easy to fall off. A few species have obvious radial ribs. The shells of some oysters are densely covered with spines. The top cavity of the shell varies greatly from shallow to deep in different species.

The hinge has no teeth, well-developed ligament grooves, one adductor muscle, obvious muscle marks, brown or colorless, and no legs and byssus. Oysters are a widespread group of the world, distributed in the tropics, In subtropical and temperate sea areas, there are very few species in the cold zone, and none have been found in the poles. There are about 100 species in the world, and more than 20 species have been discovered in China, but there are fewer species distributed along the Yellow and Bohai Seas. They live completely in seawater, and oysters generally live in the intertidal zone with a water depth of about 20 meters, but some species only live in the intertidal zone.

Reference for the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia—Chenzhou Village