The first person who eats crabs: the first person who dares to be the first to try and take the lead, the first person who dares to do something.

Source: At present, we can find, on the "world's first crab" of the earliest clear records, only the Eastern Han Dynasty Guo Xian wrote the "Han Wu Cave Memorial" referred to as "Cave Memorial".

According to the "Taiping Yuban" cited "Lingnan foreign objects," cloud: "There is a line of the sea to get the state islets, forests and trees are very lush, it is the Vi boat climbed the cliffs, tied to the water side, half-cooked and forests did not have in the water, the cable suddenly broken, was to get to go, and see in detail, the big crabs also." From this, it can be seen that the first Chinese people eat crabs, may be sea crabs.

Translation: once a man who traveled the sea found a place that was heavily wooded, so he stopped his boat, tied it to the shore, climbed the cliffs, and began to cook, and when the forest was submerged in water, and the boat suddenly broke its cable, he went to look at it, and saw in detail, it turned out to be a big crab.

Extended Information

Story: ? Legend has it that thousands of years ago, there was a double-cheeked, eight-legged, viciously shaped beetle in the rivers and lakes. It not only ate rice, but also hurt people with its cheeks, so it was called the "pinch bug". Later, when Dayu came to Jiangnan to control the water, he sent a strong man, Ba Xie, to supervise the work, and the infestation of the beetle seriously hindered the project.

Ba Xie came up with a method, dug a ditch around the city, and filled the ditch with boiling water. The insects came over and fell into the ditch and were scalded to death. The scalded insects are reddish in color and emit an intriguing aroma. The BLA was curious to break open the armor, and smelled the fragrance even stronger.

Then he dared to take a bite, who knew that the flavor of the fresh through, more delicious than anything, so the fear of the pest became a household name of food. In order to be grateful to PLA, they added the word "insect" under the word "solve" and called the insect "crab", meaning that PLA conquered the insect and was the first crab eater in the world.

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