The taste of eating crabs
Eating crabs, as a leisurely cultural enjoyment, began in Wei and Jin Dynasties. According to Shi Shuo Ren Xinyu Dan, Jin was addicted to alcohol, saying, "Holding a glass in his right hand and a crab claw in his left hand, he spent his whole life patting a floating wine boat." 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", you will definitely think of 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.
"General rage"
The most impressive thing about crabs is that they crawl sideways. Hence the nickname "General on the rampage". The "general who runs amok" is very supercilious, so people often regard crabs as a symbol of bullying the weak and fearing the hard. The crab picture painted by Qi Baishi, a famous painter in China, is entitled "How long will you run amok", which has profound implications.
How do crabs crawl? When a crab crawls, it can only bend with one foot, grasp the ground with its fingertips, and try its best to stretch out with the other foot, and then its fingers begin to contract when they reach the distant ground; The foot that was originally bent on one side straightens at the same time, pushing the body to the opposite side, that is, taking a step forward to one side. However, due to the different lengths of these five pairs of steps, the real direction of movement is to point to the front.
But it is worth noting that not all crabs are rampant. Crab rampage is largely influenced by receptor type. Long-wrist monks and crabs living on the beach have narrow bodies and four pairs of feet can stretch forward. Therefore, their actions tend to be running forward, not rampaging. In addition, spider crabs living in seaweed have slender feet, and their bodies are longer than their width. They can climb vertically on seaweed. Therefore, we can't simply use the word "rampage" to describe the action of crabs. "General rampage" is just a nickname for most crabs.
Many people are very scared when they see a crab for the first time, thinking it is a terrible monster. But because it has eight legs and a pair of big pliers, people think that such a strange animal must have some function when they see it. So this crab became a treasure to exorcise ghosts and treat diseases, and everyone scrambled to borrow it.
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