The last filming location of the first documentary "A Bite of the Heavens" planned by Guanghui Film and Television was the filming of winter fishing scenes at Chagan Lake.

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Over the past year, the photography team of Guanghui Film and Television has been working hard around this theme, and Jiang Hui and He Ling were also present in person for the last scene.

"As far as the eye can see, I don't know which is the lake and which is the land", as soon as she got out of the car, He Ling was stunned by the white scene in front of her.

Chagan Lake, in the Song Dynasty, Liao Dynasty called it "big water bo", "big fishing bo", the Northern Song Dynasty Zeng Gongliang edited the "Wuhu Jing General Essentials" record: "big water bo around three hundred miles".

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Liao Taizu (916) called it "Yaziluo", which was the fishing and hunting place of the Khitan nobles.

Chagan Lake in the Ming Dynasty is called "Baibul Chahan Dabo", which means white and holy lake, most of it is located in the territory of the former Guoerlus Mongolian Autonomous County in the northwest of Ji Province, in the water network area of the confluence of the Nenjiang River and the Huolin River, and is a dammed lake at the tail of the Huolin River.

In general, the largest lake has a surface area of 307 square kilometers, and the shoreline of the lake is meandering, with a circumference of 104.5 kilometers.

When the water storage elevation is 130 meters, the water surface area is 345 square kilometers, and the water storage is more than 600 million cubic meters, which is one of the top ten freshwater lakes in the country.

Chagan Lake is blessed with a variety of resources, especially rich fishery resources.

Since Liaojin, the emperors of all dynasties have gone to Chagan Lake to "patrol" and "fish and hunt", and held "head fish feast" and "head goose feast".

From the Yuan Dynasty to the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the rivers in this area are dotted with swamps, whitebait shuttles, the aquatic plants are fertile, and geese and ducks gather.

The coastal forests are lush, the fields are fragrant with grass, the scenery is picturesque, it is the fishing and hunting place where the emperors of Liao, Jin and Yuan dynasties traveled and played.

"It's winter, and it doesn't look so spectacular, but if you come to the water-rich area in summer, it will be even more magnificent," Wang Lu said with a smile.

Wang Lu is a native of Jin City, but her parents are both from Ji Province, and her mother's house is still near Chagan Lake, so she is very familiar with the situation of Chagan Lake.

"It is said that the winter fishing in Chagan Lake is the most spectacular in the country, and today I finally have the opportunity to see it," Jiang Hui said with a sigh of relief.

Winter fishing in Chagan Lake, that is, winter ice and snow fishing in Chagan Lake, is a traditional fishery production custom.

As early as the Liaojin period, Chagan Lake winter fishing enjoyed a good reputation. Although the years have changed, the magic, mystery and sacredness of winter fishing in Chagan Lake are still the same.

The wonders of winter fishing in Chagan Lake have been included in the list of intangible cultural heritage of Ji Province.

According to historical records, Emperor Shengdazong of Liao likes to eat "ice fish", and every year in the lunar month, he leads his family to camp on the frozen Chagan Lake. The servants were instructed to scrape the ice in the tent until it was as thin as a piece of paper and the fish swimming in the ice were clearly visible.

When you have seen enough and want to eat, you will gently break the thin ice, and the fresh fish in the water will jump on the ice one after another, becoming a thing on the table for the monarch and ministers to feast.

"Hurry up, the sacrificial activities of winter fishing are about to begin," Wang Lu said.

I saw that at the sacrificial ceremony of winter fishing, Mongolian girls dressed up offered dried milk to the fishermen. The lama handed the offerings in his arms one by one to the "fishing leader", who placed the offerings on the offering table in order, and then inserted the nine incense sticks into the three incense burners and lit them, and then led the lamas to circle the offering table, the ice cave and the ice and snow bag three times in a clockwise direction and chanted the sutras.

After that, the "fisherman" stood in the middle of the field, picked up the wine bowl, raised his hands above his head, and began to recite the words of the sacrifice to the lake: "Ah! Immortal Heaven, the spirit of the ancestors; Chagan Lake, the Divine Mirror of the Father, Chagan Lake, ......"

"This event is very ceremonial," He Ling said.

"That's for sure, to make this winter catch famous, whether it is useful or not, all kinds of rituals are essential," Jiang Hui analyzed.

After sacrificing to the lake, the "fishing leader" held the "fishing knife" in his hand, stirred a few times in the ice cave that had been dug up, and lifted it up vigorously, and fished out a live fathead fish from the lake.

"This is called opening the lake head fish", Wang Lu became a tour guide for Jiang Hui and He Ling.

I saw that the fish was constantly writhing in the air, landing on the ice and jumping up and down, weighing 34 catties on the scale.

After a while, the big fish will not move, and in the environment of minus ten or twenty degrees, after coming out of the water, the fish will soon be "quick-frozen".

After the fish is opened, firecrackers are lit, the shouting of horse-drawn carriages, the sound of trumpets of fish heads, the sound of firecrackers, the chanting of lamas, the sound of horse bells, drums, and horns mysteriously float on the surface of Chagan Lake, making the silent snow field full of extremely alluring charm.

"This is about to officially start, right? You don't have to shoot me, it's a blank shot," Jiang Hui said as he looked at the photographer who kept pointing the camera at his side.

Jiang Hui and the others were fully armed, with gloves, ear bags, leather hats and sheepskin jackets, walking on the ice, watching this winter catch that made them sigh and wonder.

"It looks like I'm going to start going out of the net," He Ling said after a few people watched in the snow for half an hour.

I saw that the net wheel was pulled by three horses, and the two sides of the net were combined by the dry silk and the hook on the net wheel, and a large net composed of 96 nets was pulled out at the same time, which was called a pull, and was pulled out 16 times.

The first pull is gone, and the second pulls start to come out.

When the fish is released, the fish hanging on the net are pulled directly to the ice surface with the net and then removed, and the fish floating in the net mouth are fished out with a "scooper".

Eventually, more fish are concentrated in the belly of the net because of each pull.

The net belly is a pocket at the back end of the net, a net belly can hold up to one million catties of fish catches, after fishing the fish in the net belly, the net belly is pulled out of the ice, and the fish is loaded and transported away.

By the hammer, twisting the spear, and walking the hook, the net is loaded onto the climbing plough again, and at this point, the winter fishing of the net is over.

"It's really hard to imagine this scene for someone who hasn't seen it on the spot", He Ling, as the most excited person today, kept chattering.

"I said dear Mr. He, I haven't seen you make such a fuss in my daily life, it seems that Jiang Hui is still different today", Wang Lu said with a smile.

"Lulu, what are you talking about, are you looking for a beating?"

As the general manager of Glorious Film and Television, He Ling is usually a president of an iceberg beauty, so naturally she will not make a fuss easily.

However, now that I am out with Jiang Hui to work and play half-time, it is naturally different.

It's a rare opportunity to be with your beloved, and it will definitely not be so restrained anymore.

However, this kind of joke is just a person like Wang Lu who is a close friend after work and a subordinate at work.

The so-called high places are not cold, and sometimes it is not what you want.

The butt determines the head, whether it is in a high position or a grassroots person, they will say what is in line with their own role.

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