Chapter 73 fiddler crab

Tamsui is a place where I often go to relax in the suburbs of Taipei. Whenever I am tired from work, I will drive through the rice fields in the plains to Tamsui; maybe to eat seafood, maybe go to Longshan Temple to drink tea for the elderly, maybe nothing Do, just sit on the old estuary and watch the sun go down slowly.I clean my gradually polluted mind in this short leisurely time. Once in Danshui, after watching the fiery red sunset disappear, I walked slowly along the embankment of the river mouth, and unexpectedly saw a small stall selling seafood at the corner, and all the fish on the stall lost their freshness in the afternoon However, in the bucket at the corner of the stall, there are more than a dozen vigorous crabs moving around with bubbles in their mouths.

Those crabs look very strange, with a gray spotted body and dark red feet. They are one size smaller than the crabs in the general market. The strangest thing is their claws. The one on the right is almost nothing, but the one on the left is huge. Wu Peng, almost as big as its body, is really a strange shape. After some haggling, I bought twenty-four crabs for one hundred yuan (it's ridiculously cheap).They were still alive and walking around in the pool when they got home. It was late at night, and I thought that these animals that grow in the sea cannot survive on land. I happened to have another jar of old Daqu at home, so I poured the Daqu wine into the pot and fed all the bigfoot crabs I bought. The "drunk crabs" that were stumbling around were cooked together on the fire.

When I ate those crabs, I cut them open and found that the crabs were just empty shells, filled with wine, but without any meat. When I was surprised, a few friends came to visit at night and wanted to cook wine and discuss art. One of the well-informed friends saw the unfinished crabs on the table and exclaimed: "Oh! How can people eat this kind of crabs?" "Is this crab poisonous?" I was taken aback. "It's not poisonous. This crab has no meat at all, so it shouldn't be eaten." My friend talked eloquently about the ins and outs of those crabs. He said that this kind of crab is called "piano player crab", which grows in the mouth of Danshui River. Because its pincers vary greatly in size and size, it is like the same person holding a guitar in his hand—— As soon as he said it, the crabs on the table became more beautiful in an instant.He said: "The ancients said that it is a sin to burn zithers and boil cranes. It is really a sin for you to use lute crabs as drunk crabs."

"The fiddler crab has another name," he said proudly, "it's called 'fiddler crab' because its pincers are big and small, and when it lifts up its big pincers, it seems to be beckoning. I often hold the tongs to face the tide, as if the tide is brought by it, so people on the beach call it 'fiddler crab', and it is said that without fiddler crabs, the tide will not come." After he said it like this, it seems that eating piano player crab (or "Zhao Chaojie") is really an unforgivable crime. By the way, this lovely friend gave some warnings. He said that there are three kinds of things that cannot be eaten: one is immortal, like cranes, mandarin ducks, and birds of paradise; , like Persian cats, toadstools, and first-blooming roses are also inedible; third, those with extraordinary names, like Chihuahuas, swifts, fiddler crabs, and tuberoses are also inedible.Anyone who eats these kinds of food is living up to the grace of creation and is guilty of sin.He said that everyone was shocked, and Jiu Xingquan was frightened out of his wits. He said: "There is some truth in this. All the animals and plants with fairy style are used to make us meditate; the gorgeous animals and plants are used for viewing." Animals and plants with super-names are used to stimulate the imagination; one thing cannot be used for two purposes, and since it has these functions, its meat will never be delicious, and there is no reason to eat it.”

"Let's think about it on a deeper level, all intangible things cannot be measured by tangible standards, such as friendship, love, reputation, self-esteem, integrity, etc., cannot be judged by tangible values. Anyone who comes to buy formless is guilty.” My friend was eloquent and eloquent, causing me to quickly throw away the unfinished piano player crab, so as not to offend my upper body. But these remarks made me clear the bottleneck of my thinking about culture and art for many years. The promotion of culture depends on embrace, not money, and the development of art depends on enthusiasm, not price. However, in the industrial and commercial society, it seems that everything Be inverted.

Unexpectedly, the "qin player crab" bought for 100 yuan (because of these three characters, it seems that the crab is playing a qin, and there is a jingling music) has caused so much trouble, so I reread the "Diamond Sutra" tonight. ", when I read "All living beings are capable of Buddha nature, they are not born, they are not destroyed, and they rise and fall only because of delusion and enlightenment." A fiddler crab seems to have fallen forever and has been sinking. Perhaps, the previous life of Piano Player Crab was really a wandering musician playing the piano!