I believe everyone has eaten Monopterus albus. When I was a child, I liked to sharpen it with a needle or iron wire, and then tied it to a slender bamboo stick and tied it with a thin thread. The older generation said that the tied end should be painted with black tree paint, which is durable. In this way, make a good eel hook and invite a little friend to go to the field to start fishing eel. At that time, it was mainly fun, but you could catch 3-4 fish.

But there is a saying that there is a kind of eel that can't be eaten, called "full moon eel".

Encyclopedia: "Full Moon Eel" is rare, likes to eat dead dogs, dead cats and carrion, and has a stout body, no obvious difference in shape from ordinary eels, and is highly toxic and inedible.

But is there really a "full moon eel" in reality? The name "full moon eel" first appeared in Feng Menglong's collection of novels.

The main idea of the story is: According to legend, there was a couple in the Qing Dynasty, both of whom were very loving. One day, the husband caught a huge eel in the paddy field, and the husband took it home, so the wife made a stir-fried eel, which she could not bear to eat, and reserved for her husband who was doing farm work. Unexpectedly, the husband died immediately (some versions said that he could not find anyone after taking a bath and turned into blood). At that time, the county grandfather suspected murder and condemned the woman to death. It happened that Ji Xiaolan was inspecting the people's feelings in this area at that time, and he heard about this case. Knowing that the husband and wife of the deceased had a very good relationship at ordinary times, Ji Xiaolan thought it must be something else. Under his own research, Ji Xiaolan knew that there was such a thing as "full moon eel". So when the moon was full, the villagers grabbed their heads and held them up to look at the eel on the moon. Now they fed the caught "full moon eel" to the dog, and the dog was poisoned immediately, so this unjust case was also rehabilitated.

There is no way to verify the truth of the story, but it is true that I have not eaten eel for a long time because of this story for many years, because every time I buy eel, or loach, I like to keep water for one day and wait until the next day. When I learned that there is an eel called "Full Moon Eel", I went to observe it. At first glance, I was shocked and found that there were more than a dozen eels in the bucket, most of which stuck their heads out of the water. So eel hasn't been on my menu for a long time since then, and it wasn't until later that I realized that the eel I saw was out of the water because of lack of oxygen, and it was only after all eels had this habit that they got better.

As for whether the "full moon eel" really exists? However, in this era of developed network information, there is no case that the death was caused by eating eel. However, because Monopterus albus is a freshwater creature, there must be parasites, but after cooking at high temperature for 5- 10 minutes, the parasites can be completely killed and eaten.

Therefore, the "full moon eel" only appears in folklore, but it does not exist in reality and can be safely eaten. Don't let the story of "Full Moon Eel" cause you haven't eaten such delicious food for a long time like me.