Clad in armor, the earth turtle is not an adjective, but a 100-pound delicacy on the table. I don't know when the word "turtle" actually became an adjective used to curse people. In my memory, in the mud house of the rural hometown, in front of the house and behind the house, you can always see a small round body, a small black and gray beetle, which we call the earth turtle.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > what is a turtle? </h1>
Earth turtles are an insect of the family Turtles and are a family of cockroaches in the insect family Pteropodidae. It is generally about 2 cm long and has a brownish-black shiny carapace. Its head is small, the antennae are filamentous, the compound eyes are developed, and it usually eats everything, which is omnivorous, and generally comes out at night.
This insect is widely lived in South China and Fujian, Sichuan, Chongqing, Guangdong, Guangxi, Anhui Bozhou and other places, so there are many aliases, such as: ground turtle, crossing the street, ground turtle, knotweed, bed bug mother, in some places, it will also be called Tuyuan.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > so what is the use of this turtle? </h1>
1. Medicinal value
The reason why the word turtle is so famous has something to do with its important medicinal value.
There is a legend that in ancient times, there was an oil mill that pressed oil. Many people were hired to work in the oil mill, including an old man named Boss Wang who was in charge of burning fires. One morning, he was burning a fire under the stove, and when he saw a few turtles crawling out of the ash pile, he hurriedly put down the shovel to catch it, and the little turtle crawled into the ash pile with a cry. After a while, a few more climbed out of the ash pile, and he hurriedly picked up the shovel and smashed it, but none of them were smashed, only so angry that he screamed and scolded. Looking down, there was another one, and he hurriedly smashed it again, and as a result, he cut the little turtle into two sections. At this time, the pot was frying rapeseed, because Boss Wang was eager to catch insects, he forgot about it, causing the rapeseed in the pot to be fried black.
The next day, when Boss Wang was sweeping the floor, he accidentally found that the small turtle that had been cut into two sections yesterday was alive again. Looking more closely, it turned out that this small turtle was automatically connected, and there was no trace of even cutting. He looked more closely and found that only the female worm was cut off to connect automatically.
Once, Elder Wang's child accidentally fell off a high mountain and broke his leg. He asked several doctors but could not cure it, which was very urgent. Suddenly, he remembered the turtle worm, so he took a few females, dried them, and grated them in sesame oil and applied them to his son's wounds. Within a few days, the child's legs were getting better. Since then, the fact that turtles can cure blood stasis and fractures has spread in the folk and has been passed down to this day.
In fact, the turtle has a long history of medicinal use, from the Han Dynasty's "Shennong Materia Medica" to the modern "Pharmacopoeia of the People's Republic of China" in the literature of the past.
This insect has the effect of relieving bruising and relieving pain, sepsis and injury, and continuing bones and tendons. Moreover, scientific research in recent years has found that it also has the effect of inhibiting tumors, anti-mutation, hypoxia resistance, hypolipidemic lowering, etc., and has a certain therapeutic and rehabilitation effect on cirrhosis, brain injury, osteomyelitis, and blood diseases. At present, there are more than 200 kinds of traditional Chinese medicines that have been used in the medicine of earth turtles, and the medicinal value is huge.
2. Edible value
Don't look at the turtle looks ugly, there are many people who eat it. A solitary uncle in Shanxi, when he was young, he injured his leg, and later listened to his mother's words, eating the turtle was cured, and since then he has developed the habit of eating turtle, putting the turtle in his pocket and eating it as a snack for more than thirty years.
Dongguan has always been the habit of boiling soup with turtles, and in early summer, as long as the weather is slightly clear, residents will bring miners, sticks and bamboo baskets up the mountain to catch fat turtles, which are used to cook a pot of beautiful soup and brew a pot of medicinal wine.
In the Yunnan region, they fry the turtles in oil until golden brown and use them as a delicacy to entertain distinguished guests.
< h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > postscript</h1>
Nowadays, the rural hometown has built a village pass, and also lived in a large brick and stone tile house, and the earth turtle insects are almost invisible, but the huge economic value of this insect still makes many people start large-scale breeding, and the price is also sold to 100 yuan per catty. As for why the word turtle has become a pejorative term, it may be that its five short stature and the identity of the cockroach's close relatives make people like it, in fact, the turtle is a good bug that benefits us humans, and we should protect it well.
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