Liang Shiqiu said: "Crabs are delicious, everyone loves them, no matter how elegant and vulgar it is." There is few food in this world like Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs, which makes people solemnly taste them, and spend two hours to disassemble and taste them. Eating crabs has become a phenomenon, a popular, and a ritual exclusively for autumn.
Speaking of eating crabs, the first ancient people who valued the crabs most were the crab claws of hairy crabs. Bi Zhuo, a famous scholar in the Jin Dynasty, sighed when eating crabs: "Holding a wine glass in the right hand and a crab claw in the left hand, and patting the floating wine boat for a lifetime." Bi Zhuo's pursuit of crab claws and his wild and heroic attitude of eating crabs had a profound impact on later generations. Bi Zhuo, holding a crab claw in one hand and a wine glass in the other, instantly captured the hearts of many literati and elegant guests, and became the object of imitation, and crab claws became the most popular part of crabs.
For a long time afterwards, literati and gourmets had great enthusiasm for crab claws, and left many popular poems of praise:
Li Bai wrote "Crab claws are golden liquid, and the roe is Penglai."
Huang Tingjian sighed, "It is not better than the two claws, it is enough to make the country of wine."
Lu You picked up his pen and wrote, "When you study, you should also hold the horns of a cow, and you must hold the crab claws when you are drinking."
Li Yu praised "Only the crab claws, you can love it in your heart, and you can enjoy it in your mouth, and you cannot forget it forever."
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Hold the crab claws in your left hand, holding the cup to look at the clouds.
Of course, the popularity of crab claws has not decreased for such a long time, and it is still due to the deliciousness of the crab claws themselves. Although the crab claws are hard on the outside and the crab claws hidden under the thick shells are difficult to peel, the white crab claws have a very charming taste, full and plump, and have a fresh and sweet taste and elasticity. The crab meat peeled from a crab claw is incomparable to several crab legs. Dipped in ginger and vinegar sauce, the fresh and sweet taste fills the mouth, which makes people satisfied.
The deliciousness of crab claws made the ancients no longer satisfy the single steaming method, and tried to use other cooking methods to stimulate the taste of crab claw meat. Either drunk, spicy stir-fry, or make a sauce and cold sauce...there are various methods, and the careful arrangement of the plate is not only more flavorful than steamed crab claws, but also more eye-catching.
crab claws can be loved by the majority of literati and elegant guests for a long time, thanks to the elegant interests it contains. The ancients invited friends to hold an crab banquet , but it was not just to share delicious crabs with friends. A crab banquet would inevitably be linked to elegant fun. The unique crab dishes and exquisite crab-eating tools, chatting loudly and drinking slowly and pounding carefully, this is elegance. Writing crab poems, painting crab paintings, pairing crabs, and putting the crab shells back into their original form after eating, or putting the removed crab claws into butterflies, this is fun. Especially the butterfly made of crab claw shells, the two furry things on the crab claw's head are put together to make a butterfly. If you eat a few crabs, you will make a few butterflies and stick them on the wall at home. This "butterfly" is not a fun that belongs to the ancients. Even now, when it comes to the golden autumn crab season, you can still see these lifelike "butterflies" on the white walls of many people, which is very interesting.
Crab Butterfly
Nowadays, the fragrant and oily yellow paste is more likely to be popular and loved by people, and compared with the yellow paste, crab claws can only be regarded as auxiliary dishes.
Speaking of people's love for crab roe now, we have to mention Liu Chengxun, the son of Liu Zhiyuan, the founding emperor of the Later Han Dynasty. In that era when crab claws were still the leader, Liu Chengxun did not eat crab claws, but only picked the full-headed crab, broke it apart, and only ate the crab roe in it. The people around him were very curious, so they asked him implicitly, "How much does the crab roe taste?" Liu Chengxun said without hesitation, "One hundred thousand crab claws are not as good as a shell of crab roe." After hearing this, people were curious about the taste of crab roe, and tasted the crab roe and found that it was indeed very delicious. Over time, crab roe has entered people's vision, and a "crab roe fever" has sparked in China. By now, crab roe has become the favorite part of people's favorite food.
Since people discovered the beauty of yellow paste, they became uncontrollable, and yellow paste became the highlight of eating crabs.Of course, everyone eats different ways. Some people like to eat it in big mouthfuls and wait for the plump and mellow fragrance to spread in their mouths; some people like to eat crab roe with other ingredients to feel the different fresh fragrance, such as crab paste lion head, crab paste soup bun , crab paste tofu and other crab paste dishes with strong crab aroma. Some people like to seal the yellow paste in sealing and wait until there are no hairy crabs, and then take it out and taste it carefully.
In fact,
Whether it is crab claws or yellow paste,
each has its own unique flavor, and every part of
is worth savoring.
sucking yellow cream, chewing crab meat,
full of mellow fragrance slid across the teeth and throat,
seemed to swallow the whole golden autumn in one bite.
As Liang Shiqiu said:
"Pink a pot of wine, eat two or three fat crabs,
smell the fragrance of chrysanthemums in the courtyard, this is the joy of life."
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