Welcome to: The Self-Talking President
There is a demon king from the abyss, which is hidden at the bottom of the sea in Bermuda. Suddenly, one day, it became its first form, leaving the abyss and setting out for the human world. No one has seen how they reproduce, no one has seen their fish eggs, and no one knows whether they are biochemical machines of undersea civilizations.
All we know is that when it's caught, it becomes the ultimate delicacy – eel rice.
Today, we're going to talk about its story.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="11" > 1887 Paris, France</h1>
Not long ago, a shroud appeared in Turin. Legend has it that this is the cloth that wrapped the body of Jesus. Blood stains are printed on it, and the face of Jesus Christ can be seen. The Shroud of Turin caused a sensation in the Holy See, and finally, the big man came forward and gave a speech after studying it. He said that the cloth was real, and the blood on it was not a probability of Jesus being only one in 10 billion.
The big guy is called Yves Delage, who eats both theological and scientific worlds. This time, the priest sent a box, he said, recently the Holy See has encountered a little trouble, please study it. The big guy opened the box, and it turned out that inside were several glass fish, like a transparent willow leaf, and the eyes were a black dot, which looked very good when swimming.
Is the problem behind this fish serious? The big guy began to feed these little things seriously. Sure enough, after a few months, things started to get weird.
The glass fish turned into long transparent fish. The big guy suddenly felt that these transparent fish grew longer and more like the Portuguese delicacy. Isn't that what Coimbra fry do? The big guy mixed a cold one, and sure enough, it was the smell. It seems that Coimbra fry developed from this glass fish, and the deformation has causes and effects, and the Holy See does not need to panic. The big guy began to write the paper, continuing to match the relationship between science and theology, and as a result, just halfway through writing, the transparent fish was deformed again.
They changed color overnight, their bodies were noticeably thicker, their eyes were noticeably larger, and they had some teeth. And isn't this just a miniature version of an eel?
The boss continues to cultivate, and the mini eel grows up and really deforms again, turning into a yellow eel. This is exactly the same as the eels in the creeks and rivers inland. Another dissection, without any problems, is the eel.
The yellow eel was reared for several years, and then deformed again, becoming a silver eel, with eyes that became 10 times larger and a complete change in size. Then, the gastrointestinal tract is digested by itself, and the eel begins to become manic.
The big guy realized that this was the final form of a possible eel, and it seemed that it was going to swim back to the deep sea to breed.
Seven years later, the big guy's paper was published.
It turns out that the five forms of willow leaf form (leptocephalus), transparent form (glass eel), mini form (elvers), yellow form (yellow eel), silver form (silver eel) are all eels. Previously, it was thought that they were 3 completely different species.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="163" > Bermuda, 1904</h1>
This year, an explorer entered the waters of Bermuda. He believed that eels were bred hiding in the sea.
Because, the closer the boat is to Bermuda, the smaller the eels caught, the closer they are to the willow leaf form.
The explorer, named Johannes Schmidt, broke into Bermuda countless times, but returned countless times without success. Because, he found that he could not dive into the unknown abyss like an eel. Exactly 17 years later, he published a paper admitting that he had not found fish eggs and seen eels crossing their tails. But he guessed that the abyss of Bermuda was hiding countless eels.
The story of the eel's life, until now, scientists can only rely on guessing, probably like this...
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="165" > The first stage: the abyss</h1>
East of Bermuda and west of the Azores, there is a mysterious circulation with many abysses of sargasso growing beneath the circulation.
The final form of the eel, diving into these abysses, is about 5,000 to 7,000 meters below the sea floor, where the male mutates the testicles and shoots sperm into the seawater, and the female also contributes egg cells.
The moray eel then completes its tail and sinks into the abyss. These fertilized eggs hatch in a place that has never been reached by humans, like a biochemical laboratory, and no fish eggs are allowed to be missed.
I don't know how long later, the fish eggs turned into willow leaf form, about 3 millimeters, and they finally left the abyss and entered the human field of vision.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="167" > the second stage: rafting</h1>
Willow-leaf eels drift with ocean currents, some to the mouths of the rivers in the Americas, some to the European side, and in the process of drifting, they live by eating marine snow, which is the organic matter suspended in the ocean. Usually it takes 1 to 3 years to drift, and when they are close to the coast, they will change into a second form - transparent form, at this time, they are usually about 7 to 10 cm.
The eels we eat now are caught by fishermen and raised in ponds.
This is the only viable eel farming method available today.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="168" > the third stage: deformation</h1>
When they reach the mouth of the river, they will become a third form , a miniature form , at this time, they have color and teeth, and grow to 15 to 25 centimeters.
Then, along the rivers, streams, keep going deep inland, even if they hit the land, they can climb up, squirm on the land, forage, and move for up to 1 to 2 hours until they enter the next stream.
In the process, the eels began to devour everything they could swallow, growing rapidly, quickly growing to 80 centimeters, or even to a meter and a half, and found that the heaviest eel was 13 pounds.
This is their fourth form, the yellow eel form, which is the most authentic eel rice form. For example, in China, in the process of going deep inland, some eels have made their homes at the mouth of the Yangtze River, some have to run to Dongting Lake to settle down, and even the eels of the Jinsha River, that is, the eels that ran to the Jinsha River to settle down...
This is a sea fish from the abyss, it almost landed on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau...
Although the Chinese sturgeon must swim from the sea to the Jinsha River to lay eggs and settle down, the Chinese sturgeon never settles outside the Jinsha River.
Scientists say it may be that the Chinese sturgeon will identify the water quality and geomagnetic environment of the Jinsha River before they can signal home.
But how does the eel's home signal work? At the very least, magnetism and water quality cannot be explained at all. As if waiting for a signal, the eels march inland until the signal appears, and as soon as they get the signal, they stop and settle down and hide in the mud. Then, for the rest of your life, don't leave this home.
Scientists have done an experiment to help the eel move manually, move out of a few kilometers, and tie it with jamming equipment all over its body, it can also go home smoothly, how it navigates, this is also an unsolved mystery.
The form of the yellow eel is very long, and scientists have observed the oldest yellow eel, which has lived in the mud for 88 years, and some Europeans say that there is a yellow eel that has lived in the well for 150 years.
But one day, it was as if they had suddenly received some signal. Begin to move en masse and return to the abyss.
At first, scientists thought that the return signal was related to sexual maturity.
But after fishing, it was found that some of them were only 7 years old, and some of them were already 30 years old...
This obviously has nothing to do with age or sexual maturity.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="169" > the fourth stage: regression</h1>
On the way back to the abyss, they deformed again, growing fat and strong, their eyes enlarged, their fins thickened, their gastrointestinal tracts disappeared, and they began to eat or drink, and they rushed day and night. At this time, the eel becomes the fifth form, the silver eel form.
Once, scientists caught a silver eel and raised it in a fish tank, it had no digestive tract and could not eat, but it lived for four years. It's simply biochemical machinery. After diving into the deep sea, the silver eel became untraceable and disappeared from the human vision.
The ghost knows how deep they have dived to the bottom of the sea after they disappeared, and the ghost knows whether there is a group of higher civilizations in those unknown abysses that are recycling these biochemical machines. In short, when humans see them again, they are the first form of willow leaf eels.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="171" > the eels we eat</h1>
The eel described above, from the Abyss of Bermuda, lives in the lakes and rivers of Europe, called the European eel (Anguilla anguilla).
The eels we often eat, which come from the abyss near the Mariana Trench and live in lakes and rivers in China and Japan, are called Japanese eels (Anguilla japonica).
The Japanese eel is not as big as the European eel, and in ancient China it was called the eel.
Folk call it eel, or white eel, and say it's water ginseng, which can treat skin and lung diseases.
According to the Song Dynasty medical book, there was a melon village in Quanzhou, and once the villager's wife got tuberculosis, and many people in the village died of illness because of her infection. Some people in the village began to jump the god, saying that they must throw this wife into the coffin of the nails alive and float away in the river before the plague will disappear. Everyone coaxed together, and the wife was really nailed into the coffin and drifted away.
Later, the coffin drifted to a place called Jinshan and stopped in front of the door of a fisherman's house, who opened the coffin and found that the woman inside was not dead. He began to treat her, and gave him a lot of eels every day, and soon after, the disease was cured, and the woman remarried the fisherman.
Examining it, this legend is also possible. Because eel meat is poisonous, it will attack human blood cells. It must be cooked before eating. However, if this toxic residue is not much, taken in small doses, it does have antibacterial and anti-inflammatory effects.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="173" > the masters eat eels</h1>
Fast back in 1876, Freud, who was not yet a psychologist at the age of 20, came to the harbor and vowed to find the testicles of the eels.
Because, behind the eel testicles, there is a showdown between creationism and evolution. Evolution cannot explain why eels do not need to reproduce and can be produced out of thin air.
Aristotle, 2400 years ago, could not find the testicles of eels, and he could only admit that eels were naturally produced from the soil.
For more than 2,000 years, countless scientists could not find the eel testicles. They can only admit that the eel is a beetle, metamorphosed from the rubble of the roof, crawled out of the gills of the big fish, and so on. But apparently, these theories contradict the theory of evolution. Could it be that eels were really created by God out of mud?
Ancient Chinese just thought so, the son once knew that the eel came from an unknown source, and a gentleman could not eat it.
There is a Confucian story that says.
Once, Nan Duzi visited Cheng Benzi, and Benzi cooked eels for Nan Duzi to eat. Nan Saidoko said, I heard that gentlemen cannot eat eels. The book replied, whether a gentleman eats or not, does it matter to me, do you eat or not?
"The Tale of Han Poetry"
Nan False Zi process book, originally for cooking magnum.
Nan False Zi Yue: I heard that gentlemen do not eat mackerel.
Ben Zi said: This is a gentleman who does not eat, why should I be with him?
The implication is that you are less dressed, still a gentleman, when you play with the mud, you eat more than anyone, think I forgot?
There are also eels in the Classic of Mountains and Seas, saying that it looks like an eel and does not grow warts when eaten.
The North Mountain Sutra
"Among them, there are many slippery fish, whose shape is like an eel, whose back is red, whose sound is like a sycamore, and whose food has been warts."
Originally, the sages of the East and the West had been eating happily for more than 2,000 years, and they never thought that whether the eel had testicles or not was a big problem.
But by Freud's day, the eel's testicles had become dead holes in evolution's head.
How could natural evolution allow a creature to really jump out of a crack in a rock?
Freud, 20, vowed to find its testicles and further decipher the secrets of its reproduction. But after dissecting more than 400 eels, his mental world collapsed—the eels really didn't have testicles. In tears, he threw away his scalpel and ran out of the lab. He gave up completely and began to study his already crazy heart. Many years later, he said, everything is sex.
Ever since I learned the story of Freud dissecting an eel at the age of 20, I never wondered why my brother said that humans are all gun machines.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="192" > and eat and cherish</h1>
In Spain and Portugal, there is a traditional dish of eel fry, which is so extravagant that 100 eels are gone in one bite. Once upon a time, European eels were so plentiful that they were fed to cattle and sheep until the 1950s and 1960s. By 2000, however, eel fry had become very rare overnight.
Now the European eel is AL-rated, critically endangered, and a pangolin and black rhinoceros. Authentic European eels are almost impossible to eat.
Let's look at the Japanese eel in the Chinese river. Think back to it, twenty years ago, the eel rice you ate was not fragrant with lips and teeth, and you never forgot it. In the past thirty years, I have seen someone catch a white eel from the Yangtze River. This is the absolute best wild Yangtze River eel.
But now?
The wild eels in the Yangtze River have long become legends, and we eat fishing fry in the sea and then raise eels in ponds. But lately, even the eels that grow in this pond may never be eaten again. Because, 3 years ago, the main production areas of China, Japan and South Korea, the eel fry catch plummeted, and legend has it that only 20 tons of fry were caught in total, less than 1% of previous years.
It can be said that in 2018, authentic eel rice disappeared overnight. Today, the Japanese eel is rated EN, or endangered species, one grade higher than the giant panda. Merchants had to use moray eels to make eel rice.
Electric eels, hagfish, lampreys, eight-eyed eels are not moray eels, nor are they eels.
We are talking about eels belong to the eel order, there is a class will swim back inland to grow, that is, The European eel, the Japanese eel, collectively known as the river eel, there is a class that does not swim back inland, grows in the sea, collectively known as moray eel.
These moray eels look horrible, attack divers, and even swallow sharks raw, which obviously tastes weird.
Recently, merchants have begun to advocate caves and star eels, saying that this is the top Japanese ancient eel delicacy.
In fact, this is a less terrifying little moray eel.
If you have eaten the wild river eels in the Pearl River and the Yangtze River thirty or forty years ago, and even eaten the legendary Jinsha River white eel. I believe you will understand how big the gap is in the cave. Just this year, the authentic river eel is really going to disappear.
But fortunately, there are also river eels in Australia and Africa. The Australian eel may have come from the abyss near Lalaye, and the African eel may have come from the abyss where the legendary Remlia sank.
These two eels have not yet been in crisis. Eat and cherish.
Perhaps, many years later, humanity will no longer be frantically asking for it from the sea. In the unknown abyss of Bermuda and Mariana, they will release the eel fry again for us to taste.
Well, today's story is shared here, thank you.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="196" > The last lady said, it turns out that the eels you eat, each of them has seen the secrets of the abyss under the sea. </h1>
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