Legend of the hairy crab in Yangcheng Lake Thousands of years ago, The ancestors of China engaged in fishing and agriculture in the Jiangnan region. Generation after generation, Jiangnan at that time has become the home of fish and rice.
South of the Yangtze River, the terrain is low-lying and rainfall is abundant. When floods hit, sometimes while a bumper harvest can be seen, many reptiles are often found in rivers and lakes. They have two large pliers and eight feet. And they are aggressive and fierce. Not only did they break into rice paddies and steal food and grain, but they also used sharp pliers to pinch and injure people. Ancestors called them tigers and wolves, and called them clippers.
Later, when it rained heavily, the Jiangnan River opened up, and the water conservancy warriors were sent to work in Yangcheng Lake, where land and water intersected. They led the workers to dig the Haikou River. At night, a bonfire for heating had just been lit outside the shed, and the foam gushed up like a lake of insects. Everyone quickly resisted the menacing people and insects, and the two sides fought in the dark, until the east wind turned white, and the people and insects retreated into the water one after another, but many migrant workers were injured or even killed, and the flesh and blood were connected. The PLO thought for a long time and came up with a way. He let the migrant workers native to the city wall, and dug a deep ditch at the edge of the wall to let the lake water flow in, and when the fire rose in the darkness, the ditch was full of boiling water, and the people and insects fell into the boiling water ditch and were burned. The scalded insects were covered in red, piled up like mountains, and covered with a delicious fragrance. Ba Xie smelled the fragrance and looked closely curiously, and found that each of the insects emitted a fragrance. He picked up one and broke it open, thinking that he didn't know if it could be eaten, and took a bite, and this bite even tasted the delicacy of the world.
When everyone saw that he was eating with relish, the brave migrant workers also ate with him, and they were surprised to say that everyone had come to eat. Lots of worms and good taste. Since then, ancestors have not been afraid to pinch people and insects, and pests that were treated like wild beasts have now become a well-known delicacy.
In order to appreciate the PLO, which dared to become the world's first insect-eating insectivor, everyone regarded it as a warrior, and the place where The Ba xie ate crabs in Yangcheng Lake was built, named Ba cheng, and reinterpreted the word "xie". A worm is added as "crab" below the solution, implying that the Baxie has the function of treating insects. At this time, the hairy crab of Yangcheng Lake was also famous and prestigious for a long time.