How much do you know about the history of crabs in China since ancient times?

Crab has been a very delicious food since ancient times. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, Zheng Xuan noted "Ren Dong, the Tianguan of Zhou Li": "What you are ashamed of is what you eat at all times. If it is a fish in Jingzhou, it is a crab in Qingzhou. " Saying: "Xu, crab sauce also." Guo Xian in the Eastern Han Dynasty wrote in Volume III of the Ghost Story of Hanwu Cave: "The country of Yamahara tasted a crab, which was nine feet long and had four feet, hence the name Hundred Feet Crab.

Boiling its shell is better than yellow glue, which is also called chelating glue and better than chicken beak glue. "Taiping Yu Lan" quoted the story of Lingnan foreign objects as saying: "Taste the boat and sail in the sea, which is very lush. It's a boat that climbed a cliff and was tied to the water. Half-baked, the forest is not in the water Its cable suddenly broke, but it still had to go. Look closely, big crab. " Emperor Yang Di took crabs as his first food.

"Qing" records: "Yang Guifei paid tribute to rotten crabs and sugar crabs in Jiangdu and Wuzhong.

Every time I enter the palace, I will spin the shell clean and paste the golden dragon, dragon pattern and flowers. "Hand-washing crab" was popular in Song and Yuan Dynasties, and was pickled with salt, wine, orange peel, pepper and other seasonings.

Zhu Yizun recorded the formula of "Crab Pill" in "The Secret Recipe of Eating Immortal Red".

Liu Ruoyu's History of the Forbidden City in the Ming Dynasty records the crab feast in the palace, saying, "All palace officials eat crabs as soon as possible, wash them alive, steam them in capsules, and eat them in groups of five or six, laughing and laughing.

Uncover the navel cover, carefully dig with your nails, and dip in vinegar and garlic to accompany the wine.

Or remove the sternum, eight-way as complete as a butterfly, to show ingenuity. Li Yu likes eating crabs and is called "the crab fairy". He once said: "Anyone who eats crabs will eat it after steaming the whole body ... it melts in the mouth, fresh and delicate." "The crab is tender and plump, sweet and greasy, white as jade and yellow as gold. It has achieved the ultimate in color, fragrance and taste, and nothing can be served ... It is unique to the crab, and its heart can be addicted to it. .

Yuan Mei's "Suiyuan Food List" records that "crabs should eat alone, not with other things.

It's best to cook with light salt soup and peel it yourself.

Although the steamer is full of flavor, it is too weak. Jia Qinglu was written by Lu Gu during the reign of Ganjia, and introduced Suzhou crabs, including lake crab in Taihu Lake, purple-bearded crab in Hufen Lake in Wujiang and golden-clawed crab in Changshu.

Some chefs electrocute crabs with crab meat to alleviate their pain.

Crabs are rich in protein, high in cholesterol and purine. Gout patients should be self-made when eating, and patients with colds, hepatitis and cardiovascular diseases should not eat crabs.

China has a tradition of eating crabs around the Mid-Autumn Festival. Chinese medicine believes that crabs are cold, so they are often prepared with spices such as ginger and perilla.

The history and culture of crabs in China is 1. Bao Puzi called crabs "heartless sons".

2. "Ren Xinyu's Birthday" contains Bi Zhuo: "Holding a crab claw and a wine glass and taking a shot in the floating wine pool is enough for a lifetime!" 3. Su Shi calls himself "the satrap of Wuzhong Zen", and Su Shi has a poem: "You can laugh at the satrap of Wuzhong Zen, and one poem is worth two tips." "Don't live up to Lushan Mountain, don't live up to your stomach without eating crabs."

4. Don Yan Qian's poem "Crab": "A heartless child is called a beauty, and the Buddha's decree forbids any mischief." 5. Lu Guimeng has The Story of Crab, Yang Wanli has Bad Crab Fu, Gundam Sun has Songjiang Crab Fu, Zheng has Crab Fu, You Dong has Crab Fu, and Feng Zikai has Crab Eating in Mid-Autumn Festival.

6. Zhu Xuanxian's traditional Chinese painting "Beachhead Double Chelates".

7. In the thirty-eighth chapter of A Dream of Red Mansions, I wrote a crab poem by Xue Baochai: "Guiyin sits with her face up, and Chang 'an looks forward to Chongyang.

There is no latitude and longitude in the road ahead, and the skin is black and yellow in spring and autumn. "。

8. Lu Xun said: "People who eat crabs for the first time are very admirable. They are not warriors. Who dares to eat? " The culture of eating crabs, as a leisure cultural enjoyment, began in Wei and Jin Dynasties.

According to "Shi Shuo Ren Xinyu Sheng", Jin (character) is addicted to alcohol, saying, "Holding a glass in his right hand and a crab claw in his left hand, he will shoot floating wine boats all his life." This outlook on life and diet has influenced many people.

Since then, people have regarded eating crabs, drinking, enjoying chrysanthemums and writing poems as an affair in autumn, and gradually developed into gathering relatives and friends to eat crabs, which is also a "crab feast".

Speaking of "Crab Banquet", it will definitely be associated with an interesting and lively scene in A Dream of Red Mansions.

In the novel, Li Wan and Feng wait on the grandmother and aunt Xue to peel the crab meat, and then ask the maid to wash her hands with mung bean noodles smoked with chrysanthemum and osmanthus.

At this time, Yuanyang, Amber and Cai Xia came to replace Xifeng.

While joking, Pinger tried to wipe Amber's face with a fishy hand. Amber dodged, and the result was just rubbed on Xifeng's face, which caused everyone to laugh.

Next, the amateur program of eating crabs began. Some people watched flowers and some people watched fish. Baoyu said, "Let's write poems." So, everyone ate and drank, chose a topic, first gave chrysanthemum poems, and finally satirized crabs, each showing his talents and each having his own excellent works.

Among them, Xue Baochai said the same thing about crabs: Gui sat in the shade and raised his hand, while Chang 'an looked forward to Chongyang.

But the vivid description of the crab feast is not Cao Xueqin's original creation.

Before this, there was also a crab feast in Jin Ping Mei, but the style was quite different.

In chapter 35 of the book, it says that Li Pinger and his sister are coming, and everyone is eating crabs.

Yueniang told Xiaoyu, "There is still some wine at home. You should sieve it for your mother." Jinlian said quickly, "Eat crabs and get some Jinhua wine." He added, "I just eat crabs blindly."

Although it is also lively and interesting, it is a common thing after all, and there is no charm of the Grand View Garden.

The crab feast written in Jin Ping Mei is actually a portrayal of real life.

We read about the crab feast in the works of the Ming Dynasty.

Liu Ruoyu's History of the Forbidden City in the Ming Dynasty records the crab banquet in the Ming Dynasty, which is another model: "New wine in August, crab fat."

Every court official ate crabs as soon as possible, washed them alive, steamed them with cattail pollen, and ate them in groups of five or six, laughing and laughing.

Uncover the navel cover, carefully dig with your nails, and dip in vinegar and garlic to accompany the wine.

Or pick the sternum of the crab, and the eight roads are like butterflies to show ingenuity.

After dinner, drink Su Ye Tang and wash your hands with Su Ye and other things. "One of the Hundred Poems of the Apocalypse Palace, there is a poem about it:" Begonia flowers are quiet, and purple crabs are fat before the banquet tonight.

Wash jade bamboo shoots and soup lightly, and laugh at butterflies flying all over the sky.