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Takifugu in a tank. The fugu (河豚; 鰒; フグ) in Japanese, bogeo (복어; -魚) or bok (복) in Korean, and hétún (河豚; 河魨) in Standard Modern Chinese [a] is a pufferfish, normally of the genus Takifugu, Lagocephalus, or Sphoeroides, or a porcupinefish of the genus Diodon, or a dish prepared from these fish.
[3]: 124 The Chinese character for fish is yu (traditional Chinese: 魚; simplified Chinese: 鱼; pinyin: yú). It is pronounced with a different tone in modern Chinese, 裕 (yù) means "abundance". Alternatively, 餘, meaning "over, more than", is a true homophone, so the common Chinese New Year greeting appears as 年年有魚 or 年年有餘.
Eating the fish purportedly cured idiocy [15] or dementia. [23] [24] This fish as a cure was also quoted in the Compendium of Materia Medica or Bencao Gangmu (1596) under its entry for Tiyu (Chinese: 䱱魚) [22] The Bencao Gangmu categorized the tiyu (䱱魚) as one of two types of "human-fish" (renyu).
Siniperca chuatsi is both a popular game fish among anglers and a commercially important species in China, as it is a popular food fish and has been widely farmed in its native range since the 20th century. It first gained major popularity during the Tang dynasty (618–907 CE), appearing in many Chinese books and poems. [3]
The freshwater and marine Fish which are native—indigenous to China and its adjacent oceans and seas.; When the distribution range in China is known please also use Category: Fish of East Asia (most provinces) and Category: Fish of Central Asia (westernmost provinces).
An illustration of Heluo fish from the 18th-century Complete Classics Collection of Ancient China.. In Chinese mythology, Heluo fish (simplified Chinese: 何罗鱼; traditional Chinese: 何羅魚; pinyin: Héluóyú) and Zi fish (simplified Chinese: 茈鱼; traditional Chinese: 茈魚; pinyin: Zǐyú) are fish with one head and ten bodies.
Cantonese salted fish was revealed to be on the list of IARC group 1 Carcinogens, meaning it is a known carcinogen, [1] [2] but was suspected and studied for its links to cancer as early as the 1960s [3] [4] due to the high incidence of nasopharyngeal cancer, an extremely rare type of nose and head cancer now understood to be linked to a high ...
The Chinese bahaba (Bahaba taipingensis), also known as the giant yellow croaker, [3] is a critically endangered species of marine and brackish water fish in the family Sciaenidae. It is a large fish, reaching lengths up to 2 m (6 ft 7 in) and weights of 100 kg (220 lb). [ 2 ]