The first people to eat crabs were from which country and what age

Mr. Lu Xun once praised: "People who eat crabs for the first time are very admirable, who dares to eat it if they are not warriors?" "Crabs are scary in shape, ugly and ferocious, and it really takes courage for the first person to eat them.

Legend has it that thousands of years ago, there was a kind of beetle with a double chelate and eight legs and a vicious shape in the rivers and lakes. Not only stealing rice, but also using chelates to hurt people, so it is called "pinching worm". Later, Dayu went to the south of the Yangtze River to control the water, and sent a strong man to supervise the work, and the infestation of insects seriously hindered the project.

The PLO came up with a way to dig a ditch on the edge of the city and pour boiling water into the ditch. The insects came over, and they fell into the ditch and burned to death. The scalded insects were red all over their bodies, emitting a delicious fragrance.

Curious, PLO broke the carapace and smelled the fragrance even stronger. I took a bite of it, but the taste was fresh and delicious, and it was better than anything, so the feared pest suddenly became a well-known delicacy. In order to be grateful to the PLO who dared to be the first in the world, we added a worm under the word "Jie" and called the insect "crab", which means that the PLO conquered the insect and was the first crab eater in the world.

This is a legend, and there is no source.

At present, we can find the earliest clear record of "the first crab in the world", only the "Hanwu Cave Meditation Record" written by Guo Xian of the Eastern Han Dynasty is referred to as "Cave Meditation Record". The third volume has: "Shanyuan country tastes a crab, nine feet long, with 100 feet and 4 chela, because of the name 100-legged crab."

Boiling its shell is better than yellow gum, also known as chelated gum, and the gum of the beak of the phoenix. "The Cave of the Dead" records strange things, and most of the content is nonsensical, but its words and sentences are beautiful, and some materials also have a certain academic value, and later generations of literati are willing to collect and quote them. Shanyuan Kingdom is one of the countries of the Western Regions, according to the "Lingnan Foreign Objects Chronicle" cited in the "Taiping Yulan" cloud:

Taste the line of the sea Texas Zhu, the forest is very lush, Nawei boat climbs the cliff, tied to the water, half cooked and the forest is not in the water, its cable is suddenly broken, it has to go, look at it carefully, the crab also. "From this, it can be seen that the crab that Chinese eat for the first time may be sea crab. And the hundred-legged crab may be the literary image of the sea crab, as for whether Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty is the first person in China to eat crabs, I say it in vain, you might as well listen to it.

The first person to eat crabs was a cadre of Dayu, named Bajie.

Things have to start with Dayu's flood control. There are a lot of crabs in the river, not only like to eat rice secretly, but also use clips to pinch people, which is very annoying, called "pinch worm", this small pinch worm seriously hinders the water control project, and there is no way for everyone to take it.

At this time, Dayu sent Bajie to be responsible for the work, and Bajie looked at the insects that were annoyed, so he had a plan to pour boiling water into the ditch and scald all the insects to death. Everyone was very happy, and praised the trick, and when Bajie went to check the corpse of the insect and smelled a very fragrant smell, he opened the pest and tasted its flesh and bones, and unexpectedly found that it was so delicious and delicious, and the taste was extremely fresh, so the crab was named after Bajie.

Tips for buying crabs.

Common marine crabs include pike crabs, snow crabs, blue crabs, etc., among them, snow crabs are basically dead from the water after being caught, and pike crabs can be artificially cultivated. The food quality and growth environment of pike crab and snow crab are relatively good, and they can be eaten after death, and they should be selected freshly: the dorsal shell is blue-black, shiny, full umbilicus, and the abdomen is white.

Blue crabs burrow in shallow coastal waters and estuarine muddy bottoms, and are carnivorous, sometimes feeding on putrefactive small animals.

We can find that the earliest clear record of "the first crab in the world to eat crabs" is only the "Hanwu Cave Meditation Record" written by Guo Xian of the Eastern Han Dynasty. There is a crab in the third volume: "Shanyuan Guo tastes a crab, nine feet long, with a hundred feet and four chela, because of the name of the hundred-legged crab."

Boiling its shell is better than yellow gum, also known as chelated gum, and the gum of the beak of the phoenix. "From this, it can be seen that the crab that Chinese eat for the first time may be sea crab.

According to the Mengxi Writings, the people of Guanzhong did not know crabs, and after someone received a dried crab, they hung it on the door as a "mascot" to prevent malaria.

The ancients were more superstitious and generally believed that the reason why the human body suffered from malaria was because of a malaria ghost. Crabs are an animal that can effectively scare off malaria ghosts, just like Chi Gong, the god of the door, so as long as a crab is hung at the door, the sick will not dare to visit people's homes. "Mengxi Writings" also mentioned that the crabs of the Guanzhong generation "not only do not know people, but also ghosts".

This is enough to show that hanging crabs on the door to prevent malaria was not uncommon at that time, but the effect was not very good. It can be said that until the Song Dynasty, China's transportation was not very developed, so the common people living in Guanzhong basically did not see what crabs were. However, cities close to the sea and villages and towns near rivers and lakes have long had the custom of eating crabs.

Zheng Xuan, a scholar in the Eastern Han Dynasty, once examined the history of Chinese eating crabs, believing that Chinese had begun to eat crabs as early as the Western Zhou Dynasty. It's just that there is a big gap between the way the ancients ate crabs and now, and there were no "eight crabs" at that time, so eating crabs is quite troublesome.

The Zhou people eat crabs, but they will only eat crabs. The so-called "crab sauce" is a kind of crab sauce. During the Western Zhou Dynasty, the people of Qingzhou invented this delicious and easy to accompany the sauce (later the shrimp paste of the Shandong people also had the same effect).

It can be seen that as early as the two weeks, the ancients were "crab eaters", and they also regarded it as a delicacy and ate it with pleasure.

During the Eastern Jin Dynasty, there was a minister named Bi Zhuo, who was a drunkard who did not drink or enjoy. When he usually drinks, he always likes to eat a few crabs. Bi Zhuo often interfered with his work because of drinking, and every time he smelled the neighborhood wine, he would jump into other people's yards at night to steal wine, and he was often caught by the neighbors.

The servant didn't know Bi Zhuo, so he only regarded him as an ordinary thief, caught him and threw him into the firewood room. It wasn't until the next morning that the neighbors found out that the thief they had caught was actually Bi Zhuo, so they hurriedly released him and offered some freshly brewed wine to apologize. Bi Zhuo once said:

Hundreds of boats full of wine, sweet at four o'clock, holding a wine glass in the right hand, holding a crab claw in the left hand, and patting the floating wine boat, it is enough for a lifetime. "Holding the wine glass in one hand and the crab in the other, this is the lifelong pursuit of Bi Zhuo, a native of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.

In the "Book of Jin", a guy like Bi Zhuo, who has a low official position and no outstanding achievements, can be passed on by the historian, mostly because of his unusual dietary preferences. With the popularity of eating crabs in the south,

The Zhou Dynasty is the earliest dynasty mentioned in the existing literature to eat crabs.

From that time, our ancestors ate the leftovers.

The age of the excavation of crab shells and other animal bones can be estimated to be about 7,000-8,000 years ago.

"Zhou Li" is generally considered to have been written in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, so the ancients have been eating crabs since then. In the pre-Qin period, there was the so-called "hundred sauce" condiments, and in the "Zhou Li", "all the king's gifts, eat six grains." ......sauce with 20 out of 100" is proof of this.

Miso is a general term for 醯 (vinegar) and 醢 (meat sauce). Confucius had the exclamation that "if you can't eat the sauce" ("The Analects of the Gongdang"), it can be seen that the diet at that time was already seasoning. Crab meat sauce was used as meat sauce and was used in the recipes and sacrifices of the aristocracy at the time.

According to historical records, the eating of crabs by Chinese originated in the Zhou Dynasty. This can be inferred from the records of "Zhou Li" and "Hanwu Cave Meditation". As the saying goes, "Rely on the mountains to eat the mountains, rely on the water to eat the water", Dongyi, which is adjacent to the ocean, naturally has the convenience of catching crabs, and the crab meat is also partially left in the archaeological remains at that time.

Therefore, it is the first to eat crabs in the coastal area.

The history of Chinese eating crabs, there is a legend that before the Xia Dynasty, some people began to eat crabs during the Dayu water control period. It is recorded that it began during the Zhou Dynasty.

According to the earliest written records, the Chinese began to eat crabs during the Zhou Dynasty.

The more widely circulated version of the origin of eating crabs is that Dayu passed by a farmer's house to control the water and Qianlong secretly visited the two legends of a girl who got lost and met a girl, but there is no clear record of who was the first person to eat crabs, so these two legends are not true.

The first person to eat crabs has been annihilated by the waves of time, but the earliest record of eating crabs in China can still be found in historical texts.

"Zhou Li" has a cloud: "The good food of the common sacrifice"; Delicacies are precious, good, and delicious food, which is used for sacrifices. Generally speaking, good food is the food eaten at four seasons and eight festivals, such as pickled fish in Jingzhou and crab xu in Qingzhou, although it is not a common thing such as six animals, six beasts, and six birds, it is also a kind of filial piety to be used for sacrifices.

Qingzhou is Shandong, crab Xu is crab sauce, "take the crab to hide it, so that the flesh and bones are relieved of Xu Xu Ran", Qingzhou people eat crabs, feel delicious, is a delicacy, so it is pounded with its flesh and bones, and with salt, make a sauce, enjoy it slowly, and use it to sacrifice. This shows that at that time, Qingzhou people not only ate crabs, but also processed them into crab paste, and it also shows that at that time, not only Qingzhou people ate crabs and crab paste, but also ate crabs and crab paste in the palace of the Zhou Dynasty.

What era was that time? "Zhou Li" is a book of the Spring and Autumn Period between 722 BC and 481 BC, and from the actual existence to the shape of the pen and ink, from eating crabs to eating crab sauce, there must be a rather long process in the middle, according to this calculation, the Zhou Dynasty palace to eat crab sauce, especially crabs, more than 3,000 years ago.

There are two versions of the world's first person to eat crabs, but both are Chinese. One says that the first person to eat crabs is called the PLO, and they are scalded to death with boiling water, and the scalded crabs emit an attractive aroma, and the PLO is bold enough to bite into it. Another theory is that in order to solve the flood of crabs, Master Shaoxing introduced crabs into salt water to sting them to death, and finally ate them in front of everyone.

Story 1: Legend has it that thousands of years ago, when Dayu controlled the water, there was a kind of "pinch worm" in the rivers and lakes, which seriously hindered the project, and the PLO wanted to dig a ditch at the edge of the city, pour boiling water into it, and the pinch worm was scalded to death by boiling water.

The scalded insect was red all over the body, emitting an attractive fragrance, and the PLO took a bite curiously, so everyone added a worm under the solution in order to thank the PLO who was afraid of the worm first, and called the worm "crab". Now the "PLO Garden" has also been established for it.

Story 2: It is said that there was a crab disaster in Shaoxing for a year, and there was no way to solve it, and then the master came up with a way to make a broken tank, add salt water to it, and sting the crabs to death, and finally after all the crabs were killed, there was no way to deal with these dead crabs, and it was the master who stood up and ate the first bite of crabs.

There are countless Chinese delicacies, and it is understood that the earliest written record of crabs is the annotation of the Eastern Han Dynasty scholar Zheng Xuan on "Zhou Li-Tianguan-Kuren". Zheng Xuan mentioned in the research of the sentence "the good shame of the common sacrifice": "The thing that is recommended is the meal of the four seasons, such as the fish of Jingzhou and the crab of Qingzhou."

It means that when the people of the Zhou Dynasty sacrificed, they wanted to use "crab xu" as the food to be sacrificed. Crab is a sauce made from crabs.

In the Song Dynasty, have you heard of the 4 gods of wealth? Song dynasty.