You knew your name before you swam in the sea,

Bones are produced from meat.

Don't be afraid of lightning,

The sea dragon king is also horizontal.

Brief analysis

Ode to Crab (Don Pirixiu)

The first sentence leads to the crab's famous voice in the ocean, and the next sentence refers to its strange appearance (because crab is a crustacean, its chest, back and feet are all hard shells, and its head is like a bone). The other two sentences say that crabs have no heart and intestines, so there is nothing to care about. Hun has the courage to cross the sea dragon king. It not only highlights its gender, but also echoes the first sentence. The crab crossing the sea is despised by people, but the crab in this poem dares to cross the sea dragon king, which is a spirit of courage.

Scholars have always been very interested in crabs, leaving us a line of poems about crabs, adding a touch of charm to people's taste of crabs. Tang Dynasty poet Tang Yan Qian wrote in the poem Crab: "The loveliness of things is especially abhorrent, and the tattooing rope stinks. The heartless son is called beauty, and the Buddha forbids mischief. " This poem describes the life habits and delicacies of crabs. Pi Rixiu, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, wrote a poem in the poem "Crab Fu": "Before you swam across the sea, it was well known that bones were born in flesh. Thunder and lightning are fearless, and the sea dragon king is also rampant. " The poem vividly describes the image and manner of the crab, and the whole poem does not create a crab word, which is the ultimate portrayal of the crab. Li Bai, a great poet, wrote in Drinking the Bright Moon Alone: "Crab claws are golden liquid, and bad mountains are Penglai. And you must drink wine on the platform next to the moon and get drunk. " With a pair of claws in his hand, the poet's arrogant and domineering posture jumped from the page. Su Dongpo, a great writer and gourmet in the Song Dynasty, not only lamented that "if you don't eat crabs, you can't achieve your goal", but also wrote in Ding's poem "Sending crabs": "It's as good as laughing at the gluttony in Wuzhong, and one poem is worth two." "Sharp" refers to fingertip crabs, and "group" refers to group crabs. Su Dongpo exchanged poems for crabs, and his arrogance was impressive, showing the charm of eating crabs. Lu You, a poet in the Southern Song Dynasty, wrote better: "The crab fat drools temporarily, and the wine is clear. "You see, he drank too much with crabs, and even his dim eyes suddenly lit up happily. It can be seen that the delicacy of crabs is well known. And Lu Guimeng in the Tang Dynasty said, "The bones are as clear as spring fog, and the foam is white with sea frost. "In the Song Dynasty, Fang Yue's' yellow japonica rice' westerly winds gradually spread eastward, and Jiangnan was fat in October. The teeth of the pliers are white, and the round navel sucks the cream in the bucket. " These poems describe the characteristics of crabs from different angles. When Zhang Taiyan, a master of modern Chinese studies, and his wife Tang Guoli lived in Suzhou, they said, "Yangcheng Lake crabs are not good. Why should we live in Suzhou?"

Throughout the ages, crabs have always been a good subject for painters of all ages. Speaking of painting crabs, there was a painter named Xu Wei in Yinshan, Zhejiang Province in the Ming Dynasty. The crabs he painted are the most famous, and the crabs he painted are often not his self-portrayal. For example, in Biography of Huang Jia, Hà Thu's two dead stems were swept out with bold and unrestrained pen and ink, and then the crab shell was highlighted with black ink, and the hard and sharp crab legs and claws were written with dry pen, which was vivid and vivid. One of his poems "Draw a Crab" is even more vivid: "Jiangcun crabs are fat and their claws are as green as halberds. Turn it over on the paper and you should be able to see the navel of Tuan Tuan Dong Zhuo. " Qi Baishi, a master of Chinese painting, is a master of painting crabs in the history of painting in China. During War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression. He was full of accumulated anger towards the Japanese invaders. He vented his anger in a crab painting with a poem: "Where shall we go?" I saw a lot yesterday, but I saw less this year! "Obviously, the master saw that the Japanese army was at the end of its tether and breathed a sigh of relief in the dark. Wu Bozhi, a famous modern painter, once painted a crab as precious as an arch wall, and wrote a very funny crab poem at the top of the painting: "September Group, October Point. "chic water town, wine is not a pleasure." It's about "nine women and ten men" Eating crabs, reciting poems and painting have become the unique delicacies in China's food culture.

Crab food culture is closely related to wine culture. So "drinking with pliers" is very common in ancient and modern times. Eating crabs and tasting wine and pursuing a leisurely life have a long history in China. As early as the Wei and Jin Dynasties, some people regarded eating crabs, drinking and writing poems as an affair in autumn. There is a passage about eating crabs and tasting wine in Shi Shuo Xin Yu. "When you get wine, you can put it in a boat with a hundred Hu, which is sweet at four o'clock, a cup in your right hand and a crab claw in your left hand, and you will be on a floating wine boat all your life!" This is what a man named Bi Zhuo said. This kind of leisure diet is a manifestation of pursuing leisure. Holding wine with pliers is not only an escape, but also a scientific diet method. Because crabs are cold, wine can deodorize, sterilize and drive away the cold. Crab and wine, once attached, get deeper and deeper. To what extent? As soon as I eat crabs, I think of drinking. Li Bai said, "Shake the fan to the restaurant and hold the chopsticks." Su Dongpo's poem says, "Half a shell contains yellow, and two pincers of snow persuade me to eat more" ... Even Lin Daiyu, who doesn't drink much in A Dream of Red Mansions, sings in Crab: "How pitiful the meat is, who can persuade me to do a thousand things?" After eating crabs, she really can drink, and she doesn't drink yellow wine, so she wants to have a drink.