On a hot summer night, if you pass through a quiet forest in Shandong, you suddenly see a cluster of figures, slowly moving with your body, and a beam of light dangling around...
Don't Fang, this is not a thriller set, but Shandong people are looking for monkeys.
For many people, the dream of a midsummer night will probably be a romance surrounded by fireflies, while for Shandong people, climbing a forest full of monkeys is the satisfaction of summer nights.
Here, as long as you can catch the monkey, followed by the frying crunchy under the pan, the happiness of the people of Shandong does not need sleep.
Because the monkeys generally come out at night to move, so Shandong people will not sleep well when they enter the summer night, all in the flashlight to uncover the pole to catch the "monkey", go to work and leave early to catch, do not do dinner also have to catch, do not sleep also want to catch!
So you'll see your Shandong friend's exercise steps, lying flat on the bottom during the day and occupying the cover at night.
To say that some of the catch is also counted, but you know, more people to catch, know the monkey less and less, slowly, catch the monkey of the human, more than the monkey, maybe you found a night, the mosquito bag on the body than the caught monkey more.
In 2018, there was an incident in Hangzhou, and the greening department had to call for "please people who love to eat to help catch it" in the news.
So netizens shouted about China's well-known foodie Guangdong people, but the Guangdong people said that we did not eat and know, and the Shandong people frantically requested to fight: a small detachment ate all of Hangzhou and knew, and guaranteed to complete the task.
At that time, some post-90s children did not have pocket money, they went to the forest to catch monkeys, one can be exchanged for a few cents, the more they catch, the more they earn, which has become a popular side business.
Therefore, everyone has formed a fixed memory of knowing that the monkey is an additional dividend in ordinary life.
This habit, even after the material conditions improve and the life is rich, has been retained, becoming a childhood memory of many people, and turning it into a parent-child activity after growing up with a baby.
This summer limited large-scale grasping movement has also led to the rise of the monkey capture tool category.
Enter "Knowing the Monkey" in a treasure The first place is the Monkey Monkey, followed by the second is the Monkey Artifact.
The folk classic "three-piece set of catching monkeys" includes flashlights, plastic bags/plastic bottles, poles, flashlights for illumination, plastic bags tied to the end of the pole, used to catch monkeys, and plastic bottles are used for storage - what if you catch hundreds?
In the case of poles, fanatical fans will have thin bamboo poles that have been specially kept for catching, clothes drying poles are the choice of people at home, and fishing rods are the choice of cross-border players.
However, you must not think that the most professional equipment is actually transparent! bright! glue!
Wrap the transparent glue around the trunk of the tree, and when the monkey climbs up on its own and is stuck, it can be easily "harvested".
So in some fruit forests that also do monkey breeding, you will find that each tree is wrapped with transparent glue, which is not a fruit tree injured, but a trap carefully set for the monkey.
When the summer is almost over, how to judge whether a Shandong person is a big family, please open the refrigerator freezer of his home, like this stuffed with monkeys, please add the list of first choices for borrowing money.
If you can't catch it, and your mouth is hungry, what can you do, then let's buy it?
Buy at the door of the morning market, retail investors know that the monkeys are only sold, cheap when 6 cents a piece, the most expensive can be sold to 1 piece 5 a.
Otherwise, there are also stall owners selling in the market, on the pound, a pound is close to a hundred pieces, someone can buy one or two thousand pieces of zhi monkeys at once...
△ Source: Poster News
Open a certain treasure of almighty, all kinds of flavors, all kinds of monkeys have to sell, frozen, stir-fried, braised, freshly caught... Everything is available, one look at the price, good guys, more expensive than crayfish.
A treasure once counted the sales of monkeys, and easily sold 950,000 in a month.
Foodies can spend thousands of dollars for the monkey, then someone can get rich overnight by knowing the monkey.
Small stalls and small households, catch a night to know the monkey, sell in the morning, you can earn more than a thousand pieces.
This is not a big deal, and the whole village has become rich by selling cicadas.
Fengxin Village in Jinan, planting fruit trees for 10 years without tepid fire, and then began to raise golden cicadas at the same time as the planting of fruit trees, since then, every family in the village is raising cicadas, in the summer, each person catches 600 per night, more than 1,000, a year by selling cicadas can provide children to go to college.
Later, it became famous, Binzhou, Zibo and other sister cities in Shandong came to buy, a single tens of thousands of kinds, and then, this village was called "Golden Cicada Village", completely famous. The whole village bought a new car, and people called the golden cicada "fairy".
Look, Shandong people, with their enthusiasm for knowing monkeys, have led a group of people to get rich.
Therefore, let the Shandong people return to their ancestors in the summer, go to work early and stay up late and the bald head will also pour into the small forest to catch the monkeys, what is it? If you know it, why add a monkey? Here's a Q&A session for Southerners:
The life of the know will go through 5 stages of cicada eggs - cicada ants - larvae - nymphs - adults, and the main thing people eat is only the knowledge of the nymph stage.
At this time, the zhihu skin color is golden and lustrous, just drilled out of the soil, need to climb to the tree to learn to fly, the posture of breaking the soil and climbing the tree is very similar to the golden snub-nosed monkey, so it is called the knowing monkey - speaking of this, I have to admire the association ability of the people of Shandong.
△Matching degree is at least 80%
In addition to knowing the monkey, it also has many aliases.
There are as many as dozens of different names in a province in Guangdong, Jinan is called "whistle", "knowing monkey", Texas people call "knowing the ghost", Yantai is called "horse monkey", Qingdao is called "Jieliu turtle", please enjoy the excerpt of "On how many kinds of names can be called a food":
Qingyun: Little laughing monkey
Qi He: Old Spoon Monkey
Lingcheng District: Climbing
Linqing: Ji Niu climbs
Yang Gu: Belly turtle
Heze: Know the turtle, climb the fork, know the monkey
Cao County: Beep monkey's
Yuncheng: Tula turtle, belly turtle
Juancheng: Climbing grasshoppers
Jining: the big one is called a festival or a turtle, crawling and rubbing, the small one is called "Ozuzu", and there is also called "Little Squeak"
Liangshan: Dura turtle, climbing fork
At the junction of Jiaxiang, Juye and Yuncheng: Climbing fork
Zibo: Money-burning monkeys
Boshan: The cicada is called to feed the friend, and the smaller one is called the lesser bolt
Binzhou: Monkeys, little rhinos, old dao'er
Laiwu: Burn the former dog, burn the fairy dog, less circle dog
Shou Guang: Immortals
Anqiu and Changle: Jieliu Turtle
Linqu: Festival turtle, festival turtle, festival willow turtle, festival willow chase
Changyi: The small one is called xiao zheizhei
Linyi: Festival Monkey, Festival Willow Monkey, Festival Willow Monkey, Festival Willow Dog, Festival Willow Turtle, Knowing Monkey
Junan: Knot monkey, throttling monkey
Tai'an: Know the monkey, know the turtle, and the dog in the few circles
Feicheng: Climb the fork
Xintai: Hu Jieliao
Rizhao: The small one is called Toy Wow; the smaller one is called Gambler, and the smallest is called Jingjing'er
Yantai: horse monkey, horse monkey
Qingdao: Jieliu turtle, zhi monkey
△ See if there is your home
Birds, grasshoppers, monkeys, horses, turtles, cockroaches (prawns), dogs, cows, fairies... It can all be known.
I just want to ask my friends in Zibo, called "burning money monkey", is it because it costs money to eat it?
The amazing thing is that although Shandong people love to eat monkeys, according to a treasure data, the province with the largest sales of monkeys in the country is not Shandong, but Jiangsu.
According to the ranking of cities, Shandong did not have a single one on the list, but Beijing, Shanghai, and Hangzhou dominated the top three of the list, which was outrageous.
Shandong people: There is reason to suspect that these are all goods ordered by Shandong people who are out of the house...
△Source: Taobao
Originally from the perspective of agriculture and forestry farming, it is known that it is a solid pest, they will suck the sap of the tree, weaken the tree, resulting in the withering of the branches, but the reversal appears at the moment when it becomes people's plate, fried, fried, braised, fried, grilled... No matter how you do it, it is the beloved of Shandong people.
After all, if you don't eat the monkeys, the monkeys will eat flowers and trees, everyone is thinking about how noisy, and the people of Shandong will only feel sorry for the green belt.
And not only is it delicious, but the protein content of the monkey is as high as 72%, you know, like beef, chicken breast, fish, milk, which we are familiar with, high-protein foods, up to 23 to 25% protein content.
According to this logic, isn't the monkey the king's fitness meal?
According to the "Chinese Medicinal Materials" record, cicada nymphs can also be refined and aphrodisiac, quench thirst, protect lungs and kidneys, antibacterial and blood pressure...
The edible value and medicinal value add up, together creating an important position of the monkey in the hearts of the people of Shandong, so in 2020, the ban on wild game, the whole country is paying attention to what is on the list, and all Shandong people are worried about whether there is a monkey on the list.
In addition to knowing the monkeys, shandong people have a lot of research on eating insects. For example, Shandong people also eat bean worms, grasshoppers, bamboo worms, bee pupae, scorpions, ha worms, ground locusts, pine tiger pupae, landscape cattle, blind bumpers, silkworm pupae... Maybe Cantonese people have to retreat three points (no) when they see it.
If you feel that it is not too addictive, you can also try the fried whole scorpion of "the last fortress of Shandong Liquor Bureau".
Although the scorpion is poisonous, but in fact, the high temperature can be inactivated, in short, as long as the fried thorough, will not be poisoned, only crunchy.
Interestingly, because of the appearance of the scorpion and the public impression, it is much more terrible than alcohol, so when other places coax wine, coaxing at the Shandong liquor bureau, that is to "persuade the scorpion", a sentence "scorpion a plate of intestines, brother and sister have brother help", you have to eat a plate of scorpions in one breath - look at the persuasion of scorpions so rhyme.
Shandong Weihai Wenden, Yimeng, Tai'an and other places, will also use special insect feasts to entertain guests.
Only these low-fat, high-protein, pure natural, and healthy insects are worthy of distinguished guests, no matter whether they have to go to the mouth, they come, and they always have to eat something.
Of course, not all Shandong people are so good at eating insects, but don't casually mention monkeys to Shandong people, this is not, it has entered the end of summer, they have left work early, and they have once again thrown themselves into the final battle to catch the monkeys.