Chapter 6 Section 6 midges

Midge is a kind of crab that lives between the ocean and fresh water. Its carapace is slightly fusiform and its pincers are long and large, like a mighty drummer. Green, tooth-shaped front edge, likes to live in muddy beaches, feeds on fish and shrimp, lays eggs on the periphery of the beach, and can produce millions of eggs at a time.Midges shed their shells 13 times in their lifetime, most of which are at night when the moon is dark and the wind is high or at dawn when the morning light is first exposed.In Ou cuisine, midges are mostly steamed. After steaming, midges have a crab-yellow back shell, which is reddish, and the flesh inside the pincers is especially white, like the stem of a lily.People in Wenzhou simply divide crabs into two: one is cream crab and the other is white crab.The midges eaten in Yandang Mountain today are white crabs with fresh meat. They are eaten with Zhejiang vinegar and mustard, and the vinegar is fresh.

This is the first time I heard the name of midge. I heard that Mr. Cheng Shaoguo asked if there was any midge when ordering. I thought that midge was a small animal, at least as big as a raccoon. I found it was a kind of arthropod when it was served. :Crab.There is only one piece of flat bone in the large claw of the midge, and when you poke it with chopsticks, you can see the tongs open and close. The flat bone is a lever. Think about it. Clamping your fingers will cause numbness and soreness at the tips of your fingers.It is said that people from Lingkun, Wenzhou invented a simple method of catching midges, which is to dig a cave in the tidal flat and invite you to enter the cave. "Use a long-handled mud pry with a T-shaped head to dig a 'eight'-shaped hole on both sides of Puli. The oblique hole leads to Puli, and the hole is covered with a round grass stem. When the tide comes, the belly is full of fat. The midges wanted to find a cave to shed their shells, so they entered the cave, and after the tide fell, they opened the lid of the cave, and saw the claw marks of the midges, and hooked them with a blunt hook, and the midges came out obediently." ("Xin Ouhai") Chronicles) Lingkun is located at the mouth of the Oujiang River, where sea water and rivers meet. Natural bait is abundant, and it is a paradise for midges to live in. Therefore, midges are best caught in Lingkun.

Clinging to chopsticks to take meat from claws, this gesture is also claws, bamboo chopsticks are human claws, it grasps many meanings of life, just like this fine claw meat, every trace and every point is an object in time, The law of the jungle in the earth's ecological chain may be the driving force behind the evolution of civilization.Of course, a rough person like me from the mountains can’t find that kind of elegant food. The "History of the Ming Palace" records the crab banquet in the palace, "Every court official eats crabs, washes them alive, steams them with cattail bags, and eats crabs for five days. Groups of six sit and eat together, laughing and laughing. Uncover the umbilicus, carefully pick it with your fingernails, dip it in vinegar and garlic to accompany the wine. Or pick the breastbone, with eight legs intact like a butterfly, to show how clever it is." "" "One Hundred Poems of Tianqi Palace" records: "Let's take a light wash of jade bamboo shoots and su soup, and watch the butterflies flying all over the plate with a smile." "1999 No. 4), this crab is also delicious.

The flesh of midges is thick and white, and the meat of the roots is especially fresh when dipped in vinegar.A small supplement: crab meat contains 19% protein and 8% fat.Therefore, eating crabs with sesame oil is a kind of superfluity. After eating crab meat, you will feel that your fingertips are full of strength.