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In 2021, there will be about 30 billion monkeys in the United States, but it is difficult to find high prices in the Chinese market.
Monkeys are in short supply in China and even sold for 1-2 yuan a piece in restaurants in some cities, but 30 billion monkeys have flooded the Land of the United States, and many Chinese netizens said that such a delicious taste was wasted.
Why is it that what Chinese as a delicious delicacy has become so popular in the United States? Do monkeys really not eat?
01 I got to know the monkey
Catching monkeys in summer should be familiar with Chinese, and in the past, when cicadas chirped in the summer, many people in rural areas would take flashlights through the woods to find traces of monkeys.
In many restaurants, monkeys are sold for a high price of 100 yuan a plate, which is much more expensive than beef and mutton.
Why do these humble little worms in the summer have such a large market? We can first find out from the growth process of monkeys.
The "cicada" in the idiom "golden cicada shedding its shell" refers to knowing, that is, knowing the form in which the monkey can fly after taking off its shell.
It is known that there are five growth stages in the process of growth, including cicada eggs, cicada ants, larvae, nymphs and adults.
Among them, the nymph refers to the larvae of the incompletely perverted insect, that is, the nymph that knows the monkey is the knower.
Mature monkeys will begin to molt after climbing to the appropriate height of the trunk due to hormonal stimulation.
After a long wait, the bodily fluids in the body will stretch the soft wings fully, and when the wings are fully stretched, the bodily fluids will flow back into the body.
After passing through this bodily fluid, the wings of knowing will become harder than before, and it will be enough to support it to fly higher.
Knowing that the "shell" that has been shed will remain on the trunk, the whole process will last for an hour or so, and when it knows that the moment it flies forward with force, it will truly complete the transformation.
After successful dehulling, there will be many fewer known natural enemies.
When crawling on the ground before, not only will they encounter natural enemies in nature, but people will also come out on summer nights to catch monkeys, and when flying in the sky, they may know that the only enemies they encounter are birds.
But why do people come out on hot summer nights to find the traces of the monkeys, which means that the nutrition and deliciousness of the monkeys are said.
02 I know the nutritional value of monkeys
According to the records of "Chinese Medicinal Materials", the nutritional value of the monkey is extremely high, and it has the effect of quenching thirst and rejuvenating, protecting the lungs and benefiting the kidneys.
Monkeys grow in the soil, so as a pollution-free green food, it has a high protein content.
According to some data, the protein content of the monkey is between 58.58% and 72%, that is, the protein content of 100 grams of the monkey is the highest 72 grams.
Monkeys not only contain sufficient protein content, but also contain many kinds of trace elements, including calcium, potassium, zinc, iron and other trace elements, in addition to supplementing the human body with a variety of essential amino acids.
People in China who like to eat monkeys not only value the extremely high nutritional value of monkeys, but also value the medicinal value of monkeys.
It is known that the monkey's body is rich in potassium, and this nutrient has a good antihypertensive function.
And after humans eat the monkey, the amino acids in the monkey body will synthesize proteins after entering the human body, which will greatly enhance the activity of the body's white blood cells and thus improve the body's immunity.
It is known that the chitin in the monkey body has a strong antibacterial, anti-inflammatory and cold repellent ability.
In addition, chitin also has the effect of delaying skin aging and beauty and beauty, because chitin has an antioxidant effect.
Knowing that the shell under the metamorphosis will also be collected by a special person, because the cicada coat also has a certain medicinal value.
Many people like to eat monkeys, perhaps because of the unique nutritional content of monkeys, but some people will simply like the taste.
Knowing that monkeys attract many people with their delicious and unique taste, this unique way of eating has gradually developed from the countryside to the city.
It is known in folklore that monkeys have a more widely known name - crawling grasshoppers.
There are many ways for folk to eat monkeys, frying and frying is the simplest and delicious method, and even some places have developed a lot of different ways to eat.
For example, some will make dumplings with the filling of the monkeys into dumplings to eat, and some will put eggs and monkeys together to make eggs to make unique dishes such as scrambled eggs for monkeys.
03 China knows that monkeys are in short supply
However, more and more people like to eat the monkey, and there will be a phenomenon, which will cause a phenomenon that is, everyone's demand for the monkey is increasing.
However, the monkeys have become fewer and fewer, forming a situation of short supply.
According to the data, the mainland's annual demand for monkeys reaches 500 tons.
In the restaurant, I know that monkeys are generally very expensive to sell, and some places can sell for 85-95 yuan per kilogram.
Especially according to the short cycle of the emergence of the monkey, when the supply is scarce, it can even be sold to 100 yuan a catty, and the number of a catty will be about a hundred, which is calculated that the price of a knowing monkey is one dollar.
In some more developed cities with economic levels, this highly nutritious delicacy can even be sold for two dollars a piece, although the price of a monkey is so expensive, but it is still in short supply and very sought-after.
Wild monkeys are becoming fewer and fewer, so many people have come up with ways to make money, that is, to raise cicadas.
The mainland has also had some experience of raising cicadas before, but the situation in the end has not been very good.
Monkeys generally survive by sucking the sap from the rhizomes of trees, so that if you want to raise the monkey well, you need to raise the tree first.
In this case, it also appears that some farmers who have raised monkeys are actually mostly orchard growers.
Monkeys will slowly become effective after getting sufficient nutrients, but it takes a long time in between, because the growth cycle of the mainland monkeys is generally three or five years, and after a long wait for the monkeys to be sold on the market.
Although there are many good things to grind, but knowing that the monkey has such a long growth cycle has led to a decrease in the yield of fruit trees, so after calculating all the expenses, it will be found that the money cost and time cost of the monkey are not low.
This is why the monkeys in the Chinese market are so hot to sell, but their source is mainly collected by people in the fields, and there are not too many industrial parks dedicated to breeding.
The high nutritional value of the monkey is sought after by many people in China, but there will be exceptions.
In July 2018, this time is in the mating season of zhizhi, so the appearance of monkeys at this time is very frequent, and this time is undoubtedly an excellent time for people who love the delicious taste of monkeys.
But the monkeys that appeared in Hangzhou this year made many citizens difficult.
The large number of trees in Hangzhou has been destroyed, and many cherry blossom trees and willow trees have been eaten by the knowledge, which is undoubtedly a disaster for the green management of Hangzhou.
In order to deal with these knowledge that damage the image of the city, they also had to issue a propaganda call on all the citizens of Hangzhou to work together to capture the knowledge.
But maybe someone will ask, what is the purpose of catching knowledge? The answer is: eat.
In fact, most Hangzhou citizens do not like this kind of food, many people feel that eating and knowing is a very terrible thing, so the real consumption of knowledge is more of some migrant workers working in Hangzhou.
But the cicada plague in Hangzhou is compared with the United States, and it is really a small witch.
04 The United States knows that monkeys are flooded
In May 2021, there was an outbreak in the United States with a huge number of monkeys unearthed, when about 30 billion monkeys climbed into trees to perform golden cicada shelling.
A large number of monkeys not only occupied the trees of the Americans, but also the spaces where many humans lived in houses, machines, yards, etc. were full of monkeys.
In China, monkeys are usually seen appearing on trees or crop stems and leaves, and it is rare to see monkeys appear in buildings.
But The American monkeys are surprisingly found everywhere on the fence.
What is more exaggerated is that because there are too many, so when walking on the road, there will be a sound of monkeys being trampled under the feet, and the shells that have been shed also appear in many places, and the number is too large to manage.
Even the American media has reported that an old tree had experienced a cicada disaster in 2004.
Then, in 2021, this old tree was full of knowledge, breaking the record of more than 50,000 knowledge on a single tree, which also created a record high.
It is enough to see that the number of known people in the United States that year was extremely large, and after the golden cicadas came out of their shells, the cries of the knowers would also form a disaster.
After the monkeys have shed their shells, hundreds of monkeys often know that they will gather together to chirp, and the destructive force generated is comparable to the sound made by the chainsaw when it is working.
And these sounds caused serious noise pollution, the sound emitted by cicadas at its highest intensity can reach 80-100 decibels, which made many American residents at that time unbearable.
Sometimes swarms flying in the air will also injure pedestrians or animals.
When American residents were deeply troubled by this cicada disaster, Chinese netizens shouted at the Americans in the air, if you know the monkeys, you will grab two and send them to China, and the logistics fee will be changed to cash on delivery.
It is true that so many monkeys are a disaster for Americans, but for many people in China, it is a delicacy that can be seen but not eaten.
China's monkeys are so scarce that they can't find one in a small forest, while the American monkeys are everywhere.
But is it true that no one in the Americans will eat monkeys?
In fact, many people have tried, but their way of eating has surprised Chinese netizens.
At a time when monkeys were flooding in the United States, many American foodies also took these natural delicacies to make them into delicacies.
But although they also took advantage of this delicacy, the method was very different from that of China, and they ate the zhizhi monkeys that had been shed from the shell of the golden cicadas instead of the zhizhi monkeys that crawled everywhere.
They use it to make fried rice, and they will put it in sushi to make cicada sushi, and some people will make cicada roll tortillas, and there is a special way to eat it with cookies.
In China, the cooking method of knowing monkeys is usually fried and fried, and in many parts of China, monkeys have been eaten relatively rarely by people.
But American cicadas can't be solved by eating them, so they use many methods to curb their flooding, such as spraying pesticides and outdoor capture, or using insect-proof paper to control them.
Although the Cicada Disaster in the United States, it will not actually cause great harm.
Because their lives are usually very short, and among the skins of cicadas is a substance called "molting hormone", which is a useful nutrient for the land after falling into the land.
After death, cicadas also provide food to some animals, such as frogs and birds.
Therefore, these flooded cicadas are actually not too harmful, and it is more likely that the cicadas' chirping sound is too noisy and will affect nearby residents.
So why is it that such a scarce delicacy in China can be flooded in the United States?
05 The United States knows the cause of the monkey disaster
This is actually related to the breed of the monkey, and the growth cycle of the Chinese monkey is generally about four years.
The American flood of monkeys is actually another species, and their growth cycle is seventeen years.
These two exotic countries know that they belong to different varieties, so how to distinguish them?
In fact, it is very simple to just observe their eyes, the eyes of the cicadas we usually see in China are black, but the eyes of the cicadas that flood the United States are red.
Although the eyes of these two kinds of cicadas are different, they are not poisonous.
The cicadas that appear in the United States in 2021 are the cicadas with a growth cycle of seventeen years, and the 30 billion cicadas distributed in 15 states in the United States this year are expected to appear here in the United States after 17 years of spawning, that is, in 2038, trillions of cicadas are expected to appear in the United States, and then the scene will be even more grand than before.
It is known that monkeys cannot be eaten as wild game, and they cannot be eaten raw.
Because the environment in which the monkey grows is too humid, the monkey will carry some parasites or bacteria.
In particular, it is not recommended to eat the head, digestive tract, wing area and crawling foot and limb parts of the monkey.
Before eating, the monkeys should be washed with water, preferably soaked in salt water for 1-2 hours.
Although monkeys are high-protein nutrients, they usually only eat five or six at a time, otherwise it will increase the digestive burden of the human gastrointestinal tract, and then there may be uncomfortable phenomena.
So for the sake of health, for this wild delicacy, it is still necessary to eat it in moderation.