Wen/Yangcheng Evening News Full Media Reporter Liu Xingtong Intern Xie Kejing

From Yangjiang to Maoming, Zhanjiang, Zhuhai, Shanwei, Dongguan... After more than three months of summer fishing moratorium in the South China Sea, the waters of the province gradually resumed production operations this week.

The lively South China Sea Fishing Festival sounded the clarion call of "seafood war" and "autumn fat" with the momentum of gongs and drums. While attracting tourists to various fishing ports to catch and taste fresh, it also triggered a new wave of coastal tourism clock-in.

Fishing in the South China Sea!

Hailing Island Fishermen's Banquet for Ten Thousand Guests

The infinite scenery of the blue sea and blue sky, the festive excitement full of catches, the vivid display of fishermen's folk customs ...... August 15-16, the 21st South China Sea (Yangjiang) Fishing Festival was held in the national AAAAA tourist attraction, China's "top ten beautiful islands" Yangjiang Hailing Island, where fishermen and tourists from all over the country gathered to enjoy the folk festival full of coastal customs and pray for a good harvest.

With the issuance of the order to open fishing, fishing boats went to the ocean to start a new round of sea farming operations.

It is reported that this year's South China Sea (Yangjiang) Fishing Festival has the theme of "Fen Ji Sailing at the right time, ploughing the sea, herding and fishing at the right time". In addition to issuing fishing orders and offering sacrifices to the sea, it has also arranged nine activities, including the "menu" of Moyang flavor for fishermen's grand banquet, the second Hailing Island Lotus Festival, Moyang flavor food exhibition, fishermen's "Salty Water Song" tour, and Danhua Song "and Danjia fishermen's wedding custom performance.

For tourists, it is infinitely gratifying to witness the magnificence of "thousands of ships competing for development and hundreds of boats competing for flow", and the white waves declare that thousands of sails carry their wishes into the sea and plow a wide harvest land on the sea.

The greatest joy of the fishing festival is the return of countless rich seafood, which makes people's fingers move and salivate--

For those who are at the scene of the fishing festival, the most important thing to miss is the fisherman's feast. I saw Hailing Island Haibin Road Pedestrian Street "sensationalized" the whole island. The long street was filled with all kinds of seafood and delicacies. The main course was seafood. Fish, shrimp, crab, sea cucumber and other kinds of seafood rushed to the table, accompanied by Danjia-style staple food and snacks. Guests from all over the world enjoyed the wine and enjoyed this sumptuous fisherman's feast......

Since the summer, cultural tourism consumption around the increasingly prosperous, leisure and romantic coastal tourism has always been a popular choice for tourists. And until the beginning of autumn, with the arrival of the fishing festival, the end of the summer coastal tour carnival also ushered in the peak.

The fishing festival is a traditional festival held by fishermen after the end of the long fishing moratorium.

Take the Nanhai (Yangjiang) Fishing Festival as an example. As an important festival for local fishermen to celebrate fishing and pray for a good harvest, the Nanhai (Yangjiang) Fishing Festival was held in 2003 and is one of the twelve major festivals in Guangdong Province. The 21st session. This typical fisherman's cultural event has a strong local cultural color, which is highly sought after by tourists and has an increasingly far-reaching influence.

The unique charm of the fishing festival lies in that while watching the village scenery and tasting the folk customs, you can taste the fish flavor, pass the fish festival, and experience the fishing culture in an all-round depth.

At the scene of the fishing festival, a tourist from Suzhou said in an interview with reporters that he had bought a house on the seaside of Yangjiang and would take his family to Yangjiang for vacation every summer vacation to experience the seaside style of Guangdong.

"It happens to be a fishing festival. The children feel very lively. He likes the sea very much. Our family likes to eat seafood. Every day we go to the local market to buy seafood and eat it in different varieties. I feel that we can't stay enough." In his opinion, the biggest difference between Guangdong and Suzhou is that the nightlife in Guangdong is very rich, and it is a special experience to feel the joy of fishermen by participating in the fishing festival.

As Tan Guoliang, curator of the Zhapo Fisherman Culture Exhibition Hall in Yangjiang City, said in an interview with the media, during the fishing festival, islanders, fishermen, and dans will express and praise the lives of fishermen in the form of salty water songs. This kind of folk customs It is a rare place.

Nowadays, the popular fisherman's banquet is derived from the custom of "placing wine on the street" in zhapo town of Hailing island-fishermen go fishing in August every year. in order to place their vision of smooth sailing, residents put good wine and dishes on the dining table for two to three days, allowing their families to eat a full meal before going out on a long voyage. every family has done so. finally, it has developed into a big meal in the alley and has become today's fisherman's banquet.

Fishermen's dishes covered with seafood, coconut juice pot pearl horseshoe, Hailing special roast chicken, five red ancient fish, sea urchin rice ...... According to Tan Guoliang, Hailing Island fishermen's feast every year to put thousands of tables, often hard to get a ticket, very popular.

It is reported that the ingredients for this year's fisherman's banquet are all from Hailing Island, and the menu is selected by the public through online voting. This year's fisherman's banquet received about 10000 tourists, including 300 local fishermen.

In the evening, saltwater songs such as "Welcome to Fishing", "Fishermen Production" and "Sailing" sounded one after another, blowing the sea breeze, and enjoying the fisherman's feast with melodious singing. There is a special Lingnan flavor, and people have a good harvest of fishing and their own Good life has added some expectations.