Cáiyǐnchángshāshuǐ, yòushíwǔchāngyú — — zhè liǎng jù shī jīhū chéng le Húběi de míngpiàn.
'Just drank the waters of Changsha, now eating Wuchang fish' — these two lines have practically become Hubei's calling card.
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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.
