Ji'nan seafood market, many people catch early market to buy knowledge of monkeys. Wang Fuxiao photo
cicada monkey, also known as golden cicada.
provincial city cicada is becoming more and more rare.
Golden Cicada breeding base, workers are harvesting cicadas. In
fried cicada
"cicada noise forest is more quiet, bird Ming mountain is more quiet." In the afternoon of the summer, the sound of the cicada's song is always sounded inadvertently, and in many restaurants, the fried cicada has become an essential flavor snack, 30 frying cicadas of one dish, cheaper to sell more than 20 yuan, and forty or fifty yuan for expensive sale. From the largest market of gold cicadas in the provincial capital - Ji'nan seafood market, the average number of cicadas has been listed above 3 tons every day, 20 Yu Tian's peak season, and the citizens of the provincial capital can eat about 120000 Jin of cicadas.
Wang Fuxiao Intern Intern Zhang Weichao
market visit
three tons of
Ms. Yu, who came from Jimo, Qingdao, was loaded with thousands of cicadas on her car. "It was all collected last night, alive!" Sure enough, inside the box, there was a voice coming up and looked up. Tens of thousands of monkeys knew how to move.
"the wholesale price is 30 yuan, all live!" Shouting at once, immediately attracted the purchasers of the big hotels waiting for them.
"I want 200 pounds!" "I want 100 pounds!" Everyone was pushing hard and shouting loudly, for fear that they would not get fresh products.
less than half an hour, a thousand jin of monkey sales, busy for a night in the lady, more satisfaction on the face, of course, there is a bit of exhaustion.
5 o'clock, and two carts carrying cicada were waiting for the wholesale hotel buyers and farmers' market vendors to come around.
6 o'clock, the day is already bright, wholesalers have already dispersed, and the morning market citizens are getting more and more. Roughly speaking, there are 8 owners who sell cicada in the market. Compared with wholesale prices, the retail price is slightly higher, and the price is about 35 yuan per catty.
Cao Jianwei, a market manager of the Ji'nan seafood market, told reporters that at present, the wholesale volume of cicadas in the market is around 3 tons every day, mainly from Jiaodong, and more than 80% of the goods are wholesale to the hotel and the large farmers' market, because this kind of commodity is more seasonal, and the peak season of one year is about 20 days or so. This calculation, a year's wholesale volume of about 120000 pounds.
price has doubled
top to table cicada price quadrupling
Golden cicadas is a favorite delicacy. In some local forums, many people who like to eat golden cicadas are asking each other about the price of cicadas, and the different eating methods of cicadas. Strong.
car friend Yufu river said, he plans to buy 20 jin cicadas, put it in the refrigerator and freeze up, and have been eating the Spring Festival. It is hard to accept that the retail price of the cicada is up to 35 yuan per Jin this year. Compared with the price of 25 yuan a Jin last year, the price of the cicada has risen a lot. "Where can I catch the golden cicadas directly, I go to collect it." Buy a batch. " "Yufu River" in the Post said.
Mr. Jiang, who is engaged in the purchase of cicadas, said that the purchase price of cicadas was six or seven cents in 2000, with a minimum of 5 cents a single, now about 25 Fen, high or even three cents. "Nearly ten years, the price of golden cicada almost doubled two times."
reporters visited many star hotels in the provincial capital, and learned that the price of a golden cicada from the ground to the restaurant table was two times.
the front desk staff of a three star hotel located on the East Road of Culture said that a jin of gold cicadas is about 110, and a plate of fried cicadas only needs about 30. From the market, a jin of cicadas can be bought and four plates can be fried. "Now, every day in the room, the fried cicadas are almost the guests must order dishes."
3 star hotels in the provincial capital, the price of a plate of fried cicadas is 28 yuan, 28 yuan and 38 yuan respectively. The average price is above 30 yuan. The price of a plate of deep fried cicadas is calculated. On average, the price of a cicada is above 1 yuan, and the price of 25 Fen is also higher than that of the purchase price of 25 Fen.
citizen response
more and less
"when I was a child, I often went to play." Mr. Xu, who has worked in a provincial bank for many years, said that now, every summer in the park, I hear the calls of knowledge, and think of life in the countryside when I was a child. "There is a kind of intimacy." However, it is difficult to hear the call of the know, in addition to the Qianfo Hill scenic spot, Quancheng Park and other places to hear the cicadas, although the urban roadside is also greening, but it is difficult to see the shadow of the cicadas.
a number of citizens said in an interview that the effects of the white moth could be prevented, and the knowledge was less and less; there were also citizens who said that they knew that the monkeys had soil to come out, and that the roads were cement, Dali stone, and the monkeys wanted to arch and arched. On the street of Foshan street, Mr. Niu, the stall booth, said, "I have never seen the city downtown, or there are two. We want to find cicadas to our countryside, trees, fruit trees.
Fu teacher of the school of life science, Shandong Normal University, said that the cicada's living environment has changed due to the lack of cicada. "Fewer trees in the urban area lead to fewer places for cicadas to lay eggs, and ground hardening causes cicadas pupae to crawl out of the ground, causing cicada larvae to die underground. In addition, air pollution and pesticide use will also have a certain impact on the survival environment of cicadas.
an extended survey of
the rate of return to the monkeys is up to 200%
many citizens say it is hard to find wild cicadas. "In the past, we could find some more in the community, and now less and less. In the middle of the night, we can find one or two, even if we are lucky." In the Southern District of Shun Geng Road, Ms. Li said.
"when you were young in the countryside, finding a caged monkey on a summer night is a great pleasure. Nowadays, it's hard to enjoy such fun in the city." Mr. Guo, the citizen, told reporters.
at the same time, some companies selling cicada egg branches appear in provincial capital.
in the Qun Kang building on the Garden Road, there is a company specializing in selling cicada egg branch. Mr. Guo, the head of the company, showed the reporter their product: a branch of about 30 centimeters, and after breaking it off, we could see the white sesame eggs like the white sesame. Technicians say, "eggs under the ground, cicadas ant smell through the direction of identification, by sucking the roots of tree roots growth."
technical staff said that such a branch is about 50 to more than 200 monkeys' eggs, and one mu of land needs 500 branches. As long as the soil is not frozen, the ground is buried 20 centimeters, not how to manage it. As long as there are normal growing trees, the survival rate is very high, "but generally, the average survival rate is very high." It takes three or four years for the worm to grow into a larva. "
later, the reporter contacted a golden cicada farmer in Yangxin, Binzhou. Mr. Hu, who was in charge, said that his family had 300 acres of land breeding cicadas, the cost was not high, about 600 yuan per mu, but the rate of return was about 200%. Mr. Hu said that as long as the products are stored, they can be sold all the year round, and the market supply period is very long.
Special reminding
high nutrition but not too much
golden cicada has the reputation of "Tang Seng meat", with high nutritional value.
doctor informed the doctor of the Nutrition Department of the Qianfo Hill hospital that the nutritional value of the golden cicadas is very high. There are studies showing that the newly unearthed know monkey contains 58.58% protein, 3.5 times the weight of lean beef, 4.3 times the lean pork, 3.8 times the lamb, 3 times chicken beef, 4 times the carp, 6 times the egg. The golden cicada fat content is only 10.23%, which is a rare high protein, low fat, natural nuisance free nutrition.
the most common way of eating cicadas is "fried golden cicada", "crisp fried golden cicada", "pepper and salt cicada" and so on.
, however, the doctor reminds the monkey that although the monkey is delicious and has the effect of clearing heat and removing fire, the public should not eat more, so as to avoid discomfort caused by indigestion.