Nocturnal Eel Hunt

• 作者: 周建华 朱萌(翻译)
• 来源期刊: 中国民族：英文版
• 学科: 农学
• 关键词: 鳗鱼 性别变化 自定义 播种前 苗族 产卵 男性 捕捞
• 年，卷（期）: 2013,（3）
• 页码范围: 54-55
• 页数: 2页
• 分类号: S965.223

摘要

<正>"Lighting up yellow eels"or"pincering yellow eels,"are terms used by the Miao people to refer to their custom of eel catching.In Miao villages of western Hunan,the first ten days of May,just after plowing but before planting,is the time when the process of eels’sex change is at its height(When born all the eels are female,they mature and immediately after mating and spawning they turn male).They swarm to the edges or to the center of the fields in order to spawn,preparing to