1, different places of origin

Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs: Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs, also known as gold claw crab. Produced in Suzhou Yangcheng Lake. Yangcheng Lake is by the ancient Taihu Lake in the gradual evolution, desalination process of differentiation of Yangcheng Lake group of a central lake, the north-south length of 17.0 km, east and west of the largest width of 8.0 km, the average width of 7.0 km.

Yangcheng Lake lake shape is irregular, the lake shore zigzag pleated, the shore extension of broad, flat lake bottom, hard bottom, and from northeast to southwest gradually tilt. The unique features of the lake and the surrounding environment for the lake provides an extremely rich initial nutrients, thus laying the foundation for the growth of bait organisms required for the growth and fattening of hairy crabs in Yangcheng Lake.

River crabs: river crabs often burrow in the rivers, rivers, lakes and marshes of the mud bank, night activities, to fish, shrimp, animal carcasses and grains for food, often migrate to the mouth of the river out to sea in the fall of each year to spawn, the next year, from March to May hatching, development into juvenile crabs, and then backstream back to the swim. Its meat is tender and is a favorite food.

2, the appearance of different

Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs: crab body does not stain the mud, commonly known as clear water hairy crabs, large fat, green shell white belly, golden claw yellow hair, meat cream. Female crabs in September of the lunar calendar, male crabs in October, the best gonadal development. Cooked congealed, the female into a golden yellow, the male as white jade-like, delicious flavor.

River crabs: The head and chest combine to form the cephalothoracic armor that is square and round, with a hard texture. The front of the body grows a pair of eyes, the side with two pairs of very sharp crab teeth. The crab's anterior-most pair of appendages called chelicerae, the surface is covered with downy hair; chelicerae followed by four pairs of steppers, laterally flattened and longer; abdominal limbs have degenerated. The male and female river crabs can be recognized from its abdomen: the female abdomen is round, the male abdomen is triangular.

Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs

River crabs

3, different medicinal value

Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs: According to the "Compendium of Materia Medica" records: crabs are salty, cold, with a small poison. Attributed to the liver and stomach. It has the effect of relaxing the tendons and benefiting the qi, regulating the stomach and eliminating food, opening up the meridians, dispersing all the heat, and dispersing the bruises and blood.

Crab meat is salty and cold, has the function of clearing heat, resolving bruises and nourishing yin, and can be used to treat bruises, tendon injuries and fractures, and allergic dermatitis. Crab shell calcined ash, mixed with honey, external application can cure wasp stings or other nameless poisoning. Crab meat has good curative effect on all kinds of cancer.

River crab: river crab is a square crab family animals, also known as wedelia, or small stone crab. There are many kinds of crabs, there are river crabs, lake crabs, sea crabs, stone crabs, etc., and river crabs are mostly used in medicine. River crab taste salty, cold, a small poison, have blood, renewal of tendons and bones and lacquer poisoning effect; crab claws can catalyze the birth of the next child.

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