Hairy crabs are so expensive that people simply can't bear to splurge and buy them to eat. You may be willing to buy one or two hairy crabs at a time. Moreover, it is precisely because it is expensive that eating hairy crabs will have a whole set of exquisite. In some places, it is required to eat clean, and the whole hairy crab can only have shells left. Moreover, after eating hairy crabs, don't throw away the shells, but throw them into a pot of clear soup to add some flavor. After a bowl of soup, a hairy crab is really finished. After all, every piece of meat thrown by a hairy crab for forty or fifty dollars is glistening silver! However, who would have thought that the hairy crabs that are reluctant to eat now are actually the exclusive delicacies of the poor! In the past, before liberation, the poor in Shanghai had to eat hairy crabs all day. Because their money can only afford hairy crabs, but not meat.

Fan Shoulin, secretary general of Shanghai Fishery Industry Association, thinks this possibility is not great. Not only do people in China like to eat hairy crabs now, but people in China 70 years ago also like to eat hairy crabs. China people's hairy crabs can even be traced back to the Song Dynasty. As a seasonal product, hairy crabs have always had their unique charm.

According to the clues provided by Fan Shoulin, the reporter found in the book Crab Strategy written by Song that ancient gourmets had a considerable degree of research on eating crabs, such as dividing crabs into Wu crabs, Chu crabs, Guangdong crabs and Huai crabs according to their origin; Crabs are divided into river crabs, lake crab, river crabs and swimming crabs. Among them, "Gusulou County is Kunshan, and there are Wu Tang crabs, which are very fat." Louxian crab is also considered by modern people as Yangcheng Lake hairy crab in Kunshan, and is regarded as the best crab. It can be seen that people at that time not only liked to eat crabs, but also loved crabs in Louxian County.

During the Republic of China, it was recorded in the "Shen Bao" on19165438+10.2 that some rich people "decorated dozens of beautiful chrysanthemums and prepared a seasonal delicacy Yangcheng Lake crab" to entertain guests. It can be seen that hairy crabs in late autumn were also star products at that time.

The total water surface of Yangcheng Lake is 1.8 million mu, and the output of hairy crabs is limited. Especially when artificial breeding was not used in those years, Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs can definitely be regarded as a scarce commodity in the market.