In ancient times, eating crabs was considered an elegant thing

In ancient times, because of the lack of materials and the fact that crabs were not easy to handle, there may not have been many chefs who could cook this dish at that time, so the people who generally ate crabs were large families, and they were regarded as very elegant.

Just look at the tool used to eat crabs, and this is a time-consuming and etiquette-testing diet. Eat well, eat with etiquette, and the most important thing is not to touch your hands when eating. What a noble thing you say.

Because there are a lot of tableware involved in eating crabs, such as the eight pieces of crabs that have been handed down to the present, the tedious eating process naturally makes people feel elegant.

Because crabs are suitable for drinking, the ancients liked to drink, especially the ancient literati, who liked to drink and compose poems, and crabs became a snack for alcohol. Eating crabs has also become a custom of the literati.

Rare is expensive, crabs are relatively few in ancient times, few and elegant, and crabs are suitable for wine, the ancients like to drink and write poems, drink a little wine, eat some crabs, and make poems, it is also an elegant thing.

In "Dream of Red Mansions", there is a description of the crab feast, and the people in the Grand View Garden eat crabs together in the poetry club on the day of the Double Ninth Festival, and the text reads, "Baoyu proposed: 'Let's compose poems. So everyone while eating and drinking, while choosing a topic, first endowed with chrysanthemum poems, and finally satirized the crab song, each presented a talented algae, and the masterpieces were seen one after another", everyone ate crabs and became poems, it can be seen that eating crabs is a very elegant thing for ancient people, I think there are several main reasons for such a phenomenon:

1. Crabs are expensive

The ** of crabs is very expensive and can be enjoyed by ordinary people, and it is often only enjoyed by large families who are not rich or expensive, and such people are originally elegant homes, so this makes the act of eating crabs have such an elegant feeling.

2. Crabs are often eaten with wine

When the ancients ate crabs, because crabs were cold, they often drank alcohol when eating crabs, and drinking often caused poetry. Li Bai has a poem: "The crab claw is the gold liquid, and the dregs are Penglai, and you must drink fine wine and ride the moon on the high platform."

3. Crabs are very troublesome to eat

Lu Xun said: "People who eat crabs for the first time are very admirable, who dares to eat it if they are not warriors?" Although the crab is very delicious, many people can't stop it, but the crab is not only terrible in shape, but also very troublesome to eat, the ancients had a complete set of tools to eat crabs, the crab-eating tools created in the Ming Dynasty have hammers, upsets, tongs, shovels, spoons, forks, scrapers, needles 8 kinds, translated into modern Chinese is the waist round hammer, small square table, tweezers, long-handled axe, spoon, long-handled fork, scraper, needle.

Therefore, it is called "eight pieces of crab".

Such a complex procedure makes eating crabs look very ritualistic, and this sense of ritual makes eating crabs very elegant.

The reason why eating crabs is considered an elegant thing is because the people who eat crabs give it this feeling, because of the creativity of the ancients, the ancients drank and wrote poems while eating crabs, and even created a complete set of tools to make eating crabs become not just eating, but an almost artistic act.

Crab is a delicacy that many people like to eat very much, and hairy crab is even more delicious. Therefore, many people have a question, that is, in ancient times, people did not eat hairy crabs. In fact, in ancient times, people also ate hairy crabs, but the method is a little different from now.

So the topic shared today is how ancient people ate hairy crabs.

In fact, in ancient times, people would put crabs in water and cook them, and then eat them directly with wine. This is also the most primitive way to eat shrimp, and it is not much different from today's boiled shrimp. Another method is to soak the crabs overnight with wine and salt in the winter, and then take them out.

In the Song Dynasty, a new method appeared, that is, eating it raw. That is, the live crab is cut open, then sprinkled with wine, sprinkled with salt, and eaten with wine. In the Song Dynasty, there was also a way to eat crabs, that is, to crush crabs and then pickle them.

The pickled crab is as delicate and delicious as the salted egg yolk. There is also a way to eat sugar crab, in fact, sugar crab is a very luxurious method. In the Southern Dynasties, the yield of sugar was not high, so it was very luxurious to add crabs, and it was usually used with citrus.

And crabs will also be used as an ingredient for the emperor to eat, and crabs can also be made into crab roe buns. Crab roe buns are also very popular, and the meat and yolk of the crab are taken out directly. Then add some seasoning and put it in the crab shell for grilling.

This method is also very tasty and exceptionally fresh. No matter how crabs are eaten, crabs are also sought after by many people in today's society. Even when eating crabs, you must be careful not to get caught by the crab's claws, as your hands will hurt.

In ancient times, people mainly processed hairy crabs by steaming, because the kitchen at that time was still very backward, so they had to do this.

In ancient times, the common people loved to eat crabs, probably because they were delicious and inexpensive. In the crab production area during the crab flood season, the crab price is especially cheap.

In ancient times, the way to eat it was relatively simple, and it was generally braised or steamed.

The first person to eat crabs: Describes the meaning of daring to be the first to try, daring to take the lead in doing things, and the first to dare to do something.

Source: At present, we can find the earliest clear record of "the first crab in the world", only the "Han Wu Cave Meditation Record" written by Guo Xian of the Eastern Han Dynasty is referred to as "Cave Meditation Record".

According to the "Lingnan Foreign Objects Chronicle" quoted in the "Taiping Yulan": "Taste the sea of 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, but you have 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.

Translation: There was once a person who traveled to the sea found a place where the forest was thick, so he parked the boat, tied it to the shore, climbed the cliff, and began to cook, but the forest was flooded, and the boat suddenly broke the cable, so he went to take a look, and when he looked closely, it turned out to be a big crab.

The ancients ate crabs more exquisitely than we modern peopleFirst of all, it surpasses some of our modern people in terms of toolsIn the Ming Dynasty, the ancients used the tool "Eight Pieces of Crab" to eat crabs (the invention of this tool originated from eating crabs). Secondly, in ancient times, there were more ways to eat crabs than in modern times, such as the extravagant "gold dragon and phoenix crab", the simple and crude "hand-washing crab", the drunken "bad crab" and so on.

First of all, let me introduce you to this "crab eight pieces". As we all know, if we want to have a good dining experience, the most important thing is a good set of dining tools. In ancient times, the traditional dining tools of the ancients were bowls, plates, jars, chopsticks, etc., but these were not helpful or useful for eating crabs.

In the Ming Dynasty, there was a young man who liked to eat crabs very muchIn order to be able to eat the meat of the crab elegantly, he invented several simple tools, namely a hammer (used to hammer hard parts such as pincers for crushing the crab), a knife (used to scrape the meat of the crab's abdomen), and tongs (used to crush the crab's pincers and legs).

These three tools alone are far from the effect of eating crabs elegantly. Therefore, on the basis of these three tools, later generations added small square tables, round-headed scissors, tweezers, small spoons, and chisels These tools. Next, let's introduce the extravagant "carved gold dragon and phoenix crab", the main characteristics of this crab are:

The ancients pasted the auspicious pattern of the dragon and phoenix made of gold leaf on the crab shell, and ordinary people could not afford to eat it.

Finally, I will introduce a kind of "hand-washing crab" that ordinary people can afford. This practice of "hand-washing crabs" is quite rudeStep 1: Clean the crabs; In the second step, chop the cleaned crabs; The third step is to add wine, salt, ginger, garlic, pepper, vinegar and other condiments to the crab and stir well; The fourth step is to marinate the stirred crab for a stick of incense; The fifth step is to wash your hands and eat crabs.

Ancient people must have been very particular about eating, after all, crabs should be more precious in ancient times.

In ancient times, there were many ways to eat crabs, and they were generally treated as a big meal.

In ancient times, there were dozens of ways to eat crabs, including drunken crabs marinated in wine, and sugar crabs with added sugar, but most of them were boiled and eaten, and few were steamed.

The ancients held chela in their left hand, smeared mung bean noodles on their greasy hands, which could make the grease of their hands solidify, and then wash their hands with hot water, and their hands would be clean, and there would be the fragrance of chrysanthemums and osmanthus flowers. Especially in late autumn, it is more delicious to make crab with rice wine and a hint of ginger.

The first person to eat crabs.

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.