There are three versions of the saying "the first person to eat crabs". The first edition: Mr. Lu Xun once praised: "People who eat crabs for the first time are admirable. Who dares to eat them if they are not warriors?" Crabs are terrible in shape, ugly and fierce. The first person who eats crabs really needs courage. But who is the first person to eat crabs in the world? According to legend, thousands of years ago, there was a fierce beetle with eight legs and two claws in the river and lake. Not only does it steal rice, but it also hurts people with claws, so it is called "human-trapping worm". Later, Dayu went to the south of the Yangtze River to control the water, and sent a strong man, PLO, to supervise the work, which seriously hindered the project. The PLO figured out a way to dig a trench around the city and fill it with boiling water. People and insects came over, and they fell into the ditch and burned to death. The scalded insect was flushed and gave off an attractive and delicious fragrance. The plo broke the shell curiously, and the smell was stronger. I got the nerve to take a bite, but the taste is fresh and delicious, which is better than anything else, so the feared pests have become a household name. In order to thank PLO, who dared to be the first in the world, we added the word "worm" under the word "Xie", which means PLO conquered the worm and was the first crab eater in the world. The second edition: At present, we can find the earliest clear record of "the first person to eat crabs in the world", only the "Hanwu Cave Ghost" written by Guo Xian in the Eastern Han Dynasty is called "Cave Ghost" for short. The third volume is: "Shanyuan country tasted a crab, which was nine feet long and had four claws, so it was named as a hundred-legged crab. Boiling its shell is better than yellow glue, which is also called chelating glue, and it is better than the glue of phoenix beak. " Most of the strange things in Dong Ming Ji are nonsense, but its words are gorgeous, and some materials have certain academic value, so later generations of scholars are willing to quote them. Shanyuan is one of the countries in the western regions. According to the "Records of Foreign Bodies in Lingnan" quoted in Taiping Yulan, "If you try to travel to the sea, you will get a state island, and the trees are very lush. You are a boat climbing a cliff and tied to the water. You can't cook for a while, but the cable is suddenly broken, so you can get there. Look at it carefully, and the big crab is also there." Therefore, it can be seen that the crabs that China people eat for the first time may be sea crabs. The hundred-legged crab may be the literary image of the sea crab. As for whether Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was the first person to eat crabs in China, I make a wild remark, so you might as well listen to it. The third version: It is said that there was a crab disaster in Shaoxing one year, and people thought many ways to solve it. Later, a tout gave us a way to make people get a broken tank, let the tank be filled with salt water and wait for the crab to climb inside, and let the salt water sting it to death. Finally, the crabs were all killed. When people couldn't deal with these crabs, it was the tout who stood up first, ate the crabs in front of everyone and praised them for their delicious taste. That's it. In short, we call the first person who dares to try what others dare not do "the first person who eats crabs"!