Is there any basis for the legend of the Mochizuki Eel ? What exactly is a Mochizuki eel ?

I think there is a basis, ancient people may not describe this kind of thing, but there must be; Legend has it that this is a large eel that often looks up at the moon on full moon nights.

There is a kind of eel, which is a very rare kind of existence. It lives exclusively on carrion. It has a stout body and is not noticeably different from an ordinary eel in appearance.

When the moon is bright, it often swims out of the cave and looks at the moon with its head held high. Therefore, it is called the full moon eel, this creature is highly poisonous, inedible, and will kill people if eaten.

1. The origin of the legend.

During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, there was a small peasant family in Zhaojiazhuang, south of Zhenjiang. Her husband is an honest and honest person, and her wife, Li, is hardworking and virtuous. The couple worked hard, worked hard, and were very loving.

Although life was difficult, they lived happily. In Zhenjiang, there are many eels in the countryside, and the villagers often catch them and steam them to stir-fry, which is a delicious dish. One day, her husband caught a 3-foot-long eel and brought it home.

She saw that her husband worked hard all day and rarely ate meat, so she put some oil and salt to cook it carefully. Reluctant to eat, she also prepared a pot of rice wine for her husband. After eating, he suddenly had a stomachache, bleeding from his seven orifices, and fell to the ground and died.

Later, it was said that his wife had turned into an eel and looked at the moon all day long, missing her husband.

2. Another story.

There are many legends about the full moon eel, but they are all the same. The most famous is the story of Ji Xiaolan cleverly solving a strange case. The general content of the story is that a peasant woman, without her husband's knowledge, boiled a moon eel from the grave and gave it to her husband to eat, and the husband died.

The peasant woman who was believed to have poisoned her husband cried, which aroused Ji Xiaolan's suspicions. Ji Xiaolan happened to see the record of the full moon eel in a medical book, and then he suddenly remembered. So he ordered a few hundred eels to be caught and cleverly separated the only one.

After killing the feeding dog, the dog dies suddenly. This is the end of this unjust case.

3. Eel. Common eels are tropical, warm temperate fish that live in benthic organisms and are highly adaptable. It lives at the bottom of water bodies and mainly inhabits muddy water such as rice fields, lakes, ponds, rivers, ditches, etc., and even swamps, flooded fields, or wetlands.

Loves to drill and burrow. The length of the eel cave is about three times its body length, and the hole is arc-shaped. Each cave generally has more than two caves.

The exit of the cave tends to be so close to the surface of the water that it sticks out its head to breathe air.

There are many rumors about Mochizuki eels, but in fact, no one has ever caught them. It is rumored that the moon eel will look up at the moon on the 156th day of the month, so it is called the moon eel.

This highly poisonous animal called Mochizuki eel is an animal that feeds exclusively on corpses, and it exists in reality, and it is eaten and cherished.

The moon eel recorded in ancient books specifically feeds on corpses, dead cats, dead dogs and drowned people will also be eaten, which is considered to be a kind of extremely yin thing, and this yellow eel also surfaces on the night of the full moon after eating the corpse, looks at the moon from afar, and sucks the essence of the moonlight, so it is named the moon eel. It doesn't exist in reality.

The moon eel is a legendary species, and the earliest record of this moon eel is in a grotesque ** "Divine Administration". Therefore, since this kind of Mochizuki eel is a legendary animal, and it is still remembered in this ** used for recreation, the Mochizuki eel is a highly toxic substance that does not exist in reality. Because even if the blood of the yellow eel is toxic, it will not kill people as soon as they eat it, not to mention that the yellow eel is not toxic after cooking at high temperatures.

Also, according to the current scientific classification of yellow eels, there are no such species of moon eels. Because, there is no such thing as a highly toxic eel, and we can also eat yellow eel happily.

Is there any basis for the legend of the "Mochizuki Eel"? What is the "Mochizuki Eel"?

Every night, the eels watching the moon look up at the moon in the sky. This eel is said to have horns on its head and feed on decaying carcasses. It contains highly toxic substances in its blood.

People who eat this eel turn into blood.

Second: It is said that in the Ming Dynasty, a couple caught a moon eel and boiled it. The husband was poisoned to death after eating a boiled moon eel, and some say that the wife poisoned her husband and even tried to confess.

A new local ** happened to take office. After investigating the food his husband ate, he determined that the moon eel was highly poisonous, so he also cleared his wife. The legend that the moon eel is highly poisonous has also been handed down.

Third: Leaving aside the folklore that the moon-gazing eel is highly poisonous, in fact, the body of the moon-gazing eel may not be highly poisonous. Many people have a toxic reaction after eating moon eel.

This may be because moon eels live in fields and eat some plants that have been sprayed with pesticides, so they accumulate certain toxins in their bodies. In addition, moon-gazing eels also have parasites in their blood. If people do not cook the moon-watching eel, the parasite will not be successfully killed, and then it will be very serious to enter the human body.

Fourth: there is no real news about it at the moment. The basic theories of science are unfounded.

Legend has it that there is a type of eel, which is relatively rare. It likes to eat dead dogs, dead cats, and carrion carcasses. Its body is thicker and its shape is not significantly different from that of a common eel.

When the moon is half and sixteen, and the full moon is bright, it often swims out of its cave and looks up at the moon. This eel is called the moon eel. It is poisonous and cannot be eaten.

If you eat it, it will kill you. So it's just a legendary eel.

Some very large eels are "moongazer eels". This type of eel only eats dead cats, dogs, and dead mice. Its flesh is poisonous, so people can't eat it.

There is no basis for this legend, at most it is just a yellow yellow eel caught. The shape of this fish is estimated to be a bit like the moon.

There is no basis, it is a ** thing that exists in it, and it is said to be highly poisonous.

The differences between moon eel and yellow eel include different volume habits, different food, different toxicity and so on.

1. The volume habit is different.

The shape of the moon eel is not much different from that of the ordinary yellow eel, but the body of the moon eel is often much thicker than that of the ordinary yellow eel, and every full moon night, the moon eel will swim out of the cave where it is hungry and shivering to look at the moon, and the ordinary yellow eel does not have such characteristics.

2. Eat differently.

Legend has it that the moon eel is a very rare animal that eats dead dogs, dead cats, and carrion corpses, while the yellow eel feeds on small fish, insects, tadpoles, young frogs and other living creatures, and will also swallow some of the same kind or plant debris if there is not enough food.

3. The toxicity is different.

Yellow eel is toxic, but the toxins in its body only exist in the blood, and will not cause harm to the human body after processing and high-temperature cooking. The Mochizuki eel contains great toxicity, and once eaten, it will die, and it is known as the "bone eel".

The living habits of the yellow eel:

Yellow eel is a tropical and warm temperate fish, benthic fish, highly adaptable, can survive in rivers, lakes, ditches and rice fields. During the day, they like to burrow in the humus mud or burrow in the stone crevices with water on the embankment, rarely move during the day, and come out of the burrow to forage for food at night. The gills are underdeveloped, but the epidermis of the inner wall of the oral cavity and larynx cavity is used as an auxiliary organ for breathing, and can breathe air directly.

It can survive when the oxygen content in the water is very poor. After coming out of the water, as long as it is kept ** wet, it will not die within a few days. Yellow eel is an omnivorous fish that feeds on all kinds of small animals, greedy, the most vigorous feeding in summer, can not eat for a long time in the cold season, and does not die, the yellow eel is generally active in spring, rotten summer, autumn three seasons.