Do you know the origin of the name hairy crab?

The name "hairy crab" comes from the technique of Yangcheng Lake crab farmers setting up locks on the lake to catch crabs. According to "Qing Jia Lu": hairy crabs are "eaten fried in soup, so they are called 'fried crabs'". Because the words "fried" and "zha" have the same pronunciation, later generations have mistakenly referred to "hairy crab" as "big fried crab", but this theory is not credible. The difference between the two is obvious. The former is obtained from fishing techniques. Setting up gates to catch them is a method unique to Yangcheng Lake. The cooking method of "frying the soup" and eating it is also the most common cooking method for lake crabs. As for Mr. Liang Shiqiu's statement that "crabs do not necessarily have to be grown in large gates. In the cool autumn season, any lake, swamp, or stream on the mainland will be rich in crabs once the rice and sorghum are ripe." I think this word was mistaken for "Datong" and "Datong". Place names like "Dashanzi" or "Great Britain".

The special water and soil of Yangcheng Lake makes "hairy crabs" the best freshwater crabs. It is a pity to support one crab in one place of water and soil, but it is difficult to feed people from hundreds of places in the same water and soil, with their thousands of greedy and greedy people. No matter how hard the hairy crabs try to increase their production, they will eventually be defeated by the fission-type reproduction of crab-eaters' taste buds. The "Yangcheng Lake Hairy Crabs" that are rampant in the market are 99% impossible to say, and at least 98% are imposters or bastards. After visiting restaurants and restaurants first, and then walking around Yangcheng Lake, more than 99% of diners will doubt that the above judgment is still conservative.

Compared with the authentic ones from Yangcheng Lake, it is more accurate to call these freshwater crabs "side crabs". In addition to the traditional breeding areas of Jiangsu and Anhui, as well as Hubei, Jiangxi, Henan, Guangdong and even Inner Mongolia, "hairy crabs" from all over the world come together for a common goal during the crab season every year. According to Yangcheng Lake crab farmers, those who move the heterogeneous crab seedlings to Yangcheng Lake to raise them are considered very conscientious. After some lake crabs arrive from other places, they only drop into the lake once to shed their shells, and the "yangification" is completed. There are even unscrupulous crab sellers who soak crabs of unknown origin in Yangcheng Lake the night before, fish them out in the water the next morning, and sell them in the name and price of "authentic Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs." Using Yangcheng Lake as a bathhouse is not a sign of the unkindness of heaven and earth and cannot be tolerated, but it turns this bathhouse into a "confused hall".