Historical materials:
1, "The Story of a Birthday" records that Jin is addicted to alcohol, and occasionally says, "Holding a glass in his right hand, holding a crab claw in his left hand and shooting a floating wine boat is enough for a lifetime." This outlook on life and diet has influenced many people. Since then, people regard eating crabs, drinking, enjoying chrysanthemums and writing poems as romantic things in autumn, and gradually develop into gathering relatives and friends to eat crabs, which is also a "crab feast".
2, as the saying goes: autumn wind, crab feet itch, chrysanthemums open, smell the crab, September round navel October tip. It has been circulated among the people for a long time, which also shows that autumn is the best season to eat crabs.
Edible value:
Crab has been a very delicious food since ancient times. Zheng Xuan in the Eastern Han Dynasty pointed out in Ren Dong, the heavenly official of Zhou Li: "What you are ashamed of is what you eat at four seasons. If it is a fish in Jingzhou, it is a crab in Qingzhou. " Emperor Yang Di took crabs as his first food. "Qing" records: "Yang Guifei paid tribute to rotten crabs and sugar crabs in Jiangdu and Wuzhong. Every time you enter the imperial palace, you must spin the surface of the shell clean and paste it with golden dragons, dragon patterns and flowers. "
Crabs are rich in protein, high in cholesterol and purine. Gout patients should be self-made when eating, and patients with colds, hepatitis and cardiovascular diseases should not eat crabs. China has a tradition of eating crabs around the Mid-Autumn Festival. Chinese medicine believes that crabs are cold, so ginger and perilla are often used to prepare the seasoning for eating crabs.
Crab meat is delicious and nutritious, containing a lot of protein and fat, and more substances such as calcium, phosphorus, iron and vitamins. Every 500g crab contains 49.6g of protein, 9.3g of fat, 27.2g of sugar, 0/.088mg of phosphorus/kloc-,33.6mg of iron and proper amount of vitamin A, etc. It is both a tonic and a delicious food, and it is very popular with people. It is usually the main course of a wedding reception. But not suitable for pregnant women.