Historical origin

One, the source of the name

Bao Xiaotian once wrote a "hairy crab history" of the name, saying that the word "hairy crab" came from the mouth of the crab seller in Suzhou. People always like to eat crabs before the evening meal, or temporary initiation. So these crab sellers always picked up their burdens in the afternoon and shouted along the street, "Hairy crab come to hairy crab.""

This "gate" word, sounding the same as "fried", crab steamed and eaten with water, said "fried crab". This explanation is not yet complete. He had a day, in Wu Neshi home for crab feast (Wu Neshi is the text of the lake sail), seat Mr. Zhang Weiyi, home near the shore of Yangcheng Lake, began to learn the original story.

Wu Neshi is the founder of Suzhou Caoqiao Middle School, his father Wu Dazheng late Qing dynasty governor of Hunan, the Sino-Japanese War when Liu Kunyi's vice marshal, a family of three generations, are famous collectors of antique books.

The Zhang but one is Fang also, and Wang Songwen with Wu Neshi's good friends, Wu's regular customers. Gu Yanwu "the world's county profits and illnesses" manuscript, lost more than two hundred years, for Wu Neshi purchased, and also for Fang and Wang Songwen found in Wu family, and accepted the gift welcome back to Kunshan. This is a great event, and has become a great story in the book world.

The coincidence of the Wu family crab feast, Fang was also present, Bao Xiaotian made the name of the "hairy crab" explanation: "gate word is good, where the crab fisherman, they are in the harbor, must set a gate, made of bamboo. The night comes across the gate, set a light, the crab see the light of the fire, that is, climb up the bamboo gate, that is, on the gate one by one to catch, very convenient, the name of the gate crab came from."

Bamboo gate is a bamboo fish trap, fish trap caught on the crab is known as the gate crab, big head is known as hairy crab. And because it comes from Yangcheng Lake, it is called Yangcheng Lake hairy crab.?

Second, cultural history

China has a history of eating crabs for nearly 5,000 years. In the Yangtze River Delta, archaeologists found in the excavation of Songze culture in Qingpu, Shanghai, and Liangzhu culture layer in Yuhang, Zhejiang, that there were a large number of river crab shells in the waste eaten by the ancestors. This shows that the Chinese have a long history of eating crabs.

After a long period of historical precipitation, people have found that the river crabs grown in three regions of China are of the best quality: the ancient Danyang Dazhe river crab located in Jiangsu and Anhui Provinces -- Huazu crab; the river crab of Baiyangdian in Hebei Province -- Shengfang crab; the river crab of Yangcheng Lake in Jiangsu Province --Yangcheng Lake hairy crab.

People have been recognizing and consuming the hairy crabs of Yangcheng Lake for thousands of years. The Dictionary (1999 reduced edition page 506) contains: "Yangcheng Lake ...... is rich in aquatic resources, rich in irrigation, breeding benefits, to produce river crab famous." The long history of hairy crabs in Yangcheng Lake can be traced back to more than 4,000 years ago.

Mr. Lu Xun once said, "The first crab eater for the world's bravery, the legend for the Ba Xie also." According to legend, during the period of Dayu's flood control, a supervisor called Ba Liao led a group of workers in Yangcheng Lake, the fire at the mouth of the shed attracted a black piece of "pinchers", which came ashore to bite people, and in the paddy fields to bite off the roots of the rice, stealing grains.

At night, the PLO led the people to build a trench by the shed, poured in boiling water, and raised torches, which led to a swarm of "pinchers" that fell to their deaths in the trench. Scalded to death by the "clamping insects" red, issued a appetizing fresh aroma delicious. The first one to taste it was the Battle of the Bulge, who was the first one to taste it.

Since then, Yangcheng Lake crab has become a delicacy on people's tables. In order to be grateful to the pioneering Ba Xie, people added the word "worm" under the word "Xie" and called the "Crab", and sculpted a statue of it in Bacheng, Kunshan, in order to honor the pioneering spirit of the first people. The first is the "Crab", which is the word for "insect".

Historically, the ancient Danyang Dazhe included: Danyang Lake, Shishu Lake, Gucheng Lake, Nan Yi Lake and a large area of low-lying wetlands in the surrounding areas, covering an area of nearly 3 million mu. This piece of wetland across southern Jiangsu and southern Anhui, a triangle known as the river crab "Golden Triangle". In the three famous crab, the longest history of the ancient Danyang Dazhe "Huazu crab".

During the Tang Dynasty, Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs were sent to the capital as tribute, and it was recorded in "Wu County Records - Customs" that Wu people like to eat crabs, and that the crabs produced by Weizhou Village in Kunshan (now known as Chodunshan Village in Baicheng Town) were "large and fat, and the natives hid them and sold them in the city, which is commonly known as the "lamplight crabs".

The book "Crab Scriptures" written by Fu Husi of the Song Dynasty states, "All counties in Jiangsu and Zhejiang produce crabs, and Su is especially abundant." Located in Yangcheng Lake Yuzhou Wutang crab, it is meat fat yellow, delicious flavor, the most fat, according to Modan "Suzhou Fu" notes cloud: "there and catty one," a large crab to a catty weight.

Eating hairy crabs is a seasonal enjoyment, the Tang Dynasty poet Li Bai once praised: "Crab crabs that golden liquid, bad hill is Penglai. And we must drink fine wine and ride the moon to get drunk on the high platform."

Introduction

Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs, refers to the Chinese mitten crab produced in Yangcheng Lake, although the basic varieties of hairy crabs around the same, but due to the differences in the waters and breeding methods, in the appearance, taste, and even selling price will make a difference, and Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs are recognized as the highest visibility of the hairy crab varieties, is the Chinese government for the protection of the source of the high-quality products of the Chinese Geographical Indications products, and Yangcheng Lake has become synonymous with hairy crabs.

Expanded Information:

Features

Yangcheng Lake is the first lake encountered by the confluence of seawater and freshwater in the Yangtze River, the water level is stable year-round at about 2 meters, the terrain is complex, there is plenty of light, the lake has a rich variety of biological species, and the lake side of the rice paddy all over the place. Water plants are abundant, snails and maggots are more fertile, unique geographical conditions for the growth of hairy crabs provide a good environment.

Yangcheng Lake produced hairy crabs have four major features, respectively, "green back, white belly, yellow hair, golden claw", Yangcheng Lake crab shells were green-gray, smooth and shiny; stick mud navel crystal white, no black spots; crab leg hair long yellow, root upright; crab claw for the golden, firm and powerful, on the glass can be The crab's claws are golden yellow, firm and powerful, and can stand on eight feet on the glass.

Yangcheng Lake hairy crab meat is tender and delicious, after eating other food will feel tasteless in the mouth.

Eating

Yangcheng Lake hairy crab meat is tender, protein, fat, carbohydrates and vitamin A and other nutrients are particularly rich. Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs contain potassium, natrium, calcium, magnesium, manganese, iron, copper, zinc, phosphorus and other trace elements, but also rich in 17 kinds of amino acids, including five kinds of essential amino acids.

Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs muscle, liver, and gonads of the three major edible parts *** accounted for 36.72% of the body weight, shell, gills, stomach and heart of the four major non-edible parts *** accounted for 53.26% of the body weight.

Because of the larger proportion of shell weight and body weight of male crabs in Yangcheng Lake, the edible part of female crabs is 5-6% higher than that of male crabs. The fat of female crabs is significantly higher than that of male crabs, which is related to the fact that the ovaries of female crabs are rich in fat. The content of trace elements and amino acids in male crabs is significantly higher than that of female crabs.

Establishment of industry associations

In 2002, Suzhou established the "Suzhou Yangcheng Lake Hairy Crab Industry Association", the main function of the association is to ensure the quality of Yangcheng Lake hairy crab products, and the implementation of brand sales. In order to prevent other origins of hairy crabs posing as Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs sold to deceive buyers, Yangcheng Lake hairy crab industry association will be each Yangcheng Lake hairy crab wearing a "security ring", anti-counterfeiting style will change every year, consumers through the anti-counterfeiting hotline to query, such as buying counterfeit goods, you can make a complaint.

In addition, Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs or used laser anti-counterfeiting, pincer and anti-counterfeiting and other technologies, to take the product centralized transit, crab farmers with IC card to the transfer station to the sale of branded sales operation mode.

In recent years, Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs selling fake situation is becoming more serious, there are unscrupulous elements will also be imitated anti-counterfeiting crab buckle and sold through the Internet. And some hairy crabs from other production areas, you can wear a real anti-counterfeiting crab buckle, printed with "Yangcheng Lake" packaging gift box packaging.

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