又食武昌鱼

又食武昌魚

yòushíwǔchāngyú

phrase

Meanings

1 and again eating Wuchang fish
2 evokes Mao's 1956 Yangtze swim poem and the famed bream of Hubei
3 used to reference a return to a familiar place or taste

Characters

to eat (classical)

martial (part of place name)

prosperous (part of place name)

Examples

他回到武汉，第一件事就是又食武昌鱼。

Tā huí dào Wǔhàn, dì yī jiàn shì jiù shì yòu shí Wǔchāng yú.

He returned to Wuhan, and the first thing he did was 'again eat Wuchang fish.'

才饮长沙水，又食武昌鱼——这两句诗几乎成了湖北的名片。

Cái yǐn Chángshā shuǐ, yòu shí Wǔchāng yú — zhè liǎng jù shī jīhū chéngle Húběi de míngpiàn.

'Just drank the waters of Changsha, now eating Wuchang fish' — these two lines have practically become Hubei's calling card.

Tips

history

From Mao Zedong's (毛泽东, 1956) 《水调歌头·游泳》: 才饮长沙水，又食武昌鱼。万里长江横渡，极目楚天舒 — 'Just drank the waters of Changsha, now eating Wuchang fish; a thousand-li crossing of the Yangtze, my gaze wide over Chu's sky.' Written after Mao swam across the Yangtze at Wuhan, the couplet turned 武昌鱼 (bream from Wuchang's Liangzi Lake) into a national dish.

culture

武昌鱼 (wǔchāngyú), literally 'Wuchang fish,' refers to the Wuchang bream (团头鲂) from Liangzi Lake in Hubei — a UNESCO geographic indication fish and the signature specialty of Wuhan restaurants since the poem made it famous.

Stroke Order

又 yòu

食 shí

武 wǔ

昌 chāng

鱼 yú