Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs characteristics are: large, fat, nutritious, but also with its green back, white belly, yellow hair, gold claw, the four characteristics of the crab in the exclusive first, famous at home and abroad.

Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs, also known as gold claw crab, produced in Suzhou Yangcheng Lake. Crab body is not mud, commonly known as clear water hairy crab, large fat, green shell white belly, golden claw yellow hair, meat cream. Female crabs in September and male crabs in October of the lunar calendar have the best gonadal development. Cooked congealed, the female into a golden yellow, the male as white jade-like, delicious flavor.

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The crab has a flat body, greenish-gray in color, and a cow footprint on its back. It is said that the cow footprint was stepped out by an old cow a long time ago.

The people of Yangcheng Lake said that when the sky was opened, the buffalo, the crab and the toad all lived in the sky and were very friendly with each other. One day, the crab was swimming in the Milky Way when it met an oncoming toad. The toad told him that the chance to get rich had come. Due to the Milky Way break, the earth is flooded, the people have fled, leaving behind a lot of gold and silver treasures, do not hurry to go down to the earth to fish a hand.

The crab was moved. It feels that the opportunity is not to be lost, the time will not come again, hastily with the toad, came to the earth rampage, everywhere to get extra money, hair full of money. The old ox was repairing the Milky Way in the sky, and he didn't know a thing about what they were doing.

On this day, the old ox was plowing his field when he accidentally found the crab and the toad. They were rich and powerful and strutting about, and it turned out that they had both made a great fortune on earth.

The old ox was furious, and chased after them, stepped on the crab's back, and shouted, "Do you still have a conscience? How dare you take advantage of the fire!" The toad was frightened, goose bumps rose all over his body, and hurriedly slipped away. Crabs can not get away, had to beg bitterly, and how the toad bad idea, pulling it down to the earth to send disaster wealth situation, confessed one by one.

The old bull understood that the toad's conscience was bad, so he spared the crab. However, it did not expect, the old bull's foot is too strong, not only will the crab stepped on the body flat, can not stand up, from now on had to cross, and the crab shell also left a deep cow footprints.

The toad was not punished by the old cow, but the goosebumps that scared him out of his body will never fade away.