You can't live up to Lushan Mountain, and you can't live up to your belly if you don't eat crabs-A record of eating hairy crabs by driving yourself in Yangcheng Lake

The Jiangnan water town always gives people a sense of gentleness and grace. Life here is like water in a small river, flowing quietly and unchanged. There are few moments of blood boiling, and there are also moments of passion, such as when there is a strong wind. When it is blowing, it is like the water on a lake rippling and then still like a mirror. The people living here seem to be calm and calm in the face of anything. Perhaps for people in the water town, they will not break the quiet days of the years and stability in the world. Perhaps they have long been tempered by the waterway in their bones. They want to spend their whole lives peacefully and peacefully.

There is only one occasion that will make them abandon their usual indifference and glow with something different. Of course, even if the enthusiasm in their hearts is like fire, they will endure it. That enthusiasm is deliberately suppressed in a small space. In the space, it is the need to be cautious in the face of the most precious things, and the need to be unable to help themselves in the face of the most favorite things. What in the world can make people like this, only delicious food, and only delicious food cannot be underestimated.

Speaking of eating, Chinese people can talk to you about endless topics for three days and three nights. This is a tradition passed down from our ancestors. Drinking a pot of herbal tea after hard work, or a delicious food harvested after a harvest, or a bite of food that is greedy for during the seasons and solar terms. Chinese people are always harsh but tolerant about eating. In spring, you can have the first bite of fresh green, in summer, you can taste the taste of relieving the heat, and in autumn, you can get a table of post-harvest dishes. In winter, the Chinese people pay special attention to the heat around the stove. It is as if they are on a battlefield. Being able to eat is the greatest blessing in their lives. In China, food has regional characteristics. The northerners are generous and the southerners are exquisite. Regions divide food into different ingredients, and the combination is a vivid history of China. Food has developed from the original food and clothing to the present variety. This is vividly reflected in the south, especially Suzhou.

Without the joy of northerners eating meat and drinking, Suzhou people have traditional Suzhou cultural characteristics for delicious food and different opinions on eating Suzhou people. Just like drinking, the northerners 'large bowls have become small cups in Suzhou. With a peck, the aroma flows from the mouth to the throat. The aroma is on the tip of the tongue. With a sigh of alcohol, the drink is no longer free and easy, but has a calm and tranquil atmosphere. The exquisiteness of Suzhou people has been raised to a higher level when eating hairy crabs. It has just arrived in August and September of the lunar calendar. The hairy crabs in Bacheng Town, Suzhou are fat and strong, with green shells and white triplets, gold claws and yellow hair, and ten limbs. After steaming, the meat is greasy. The female crab roe looks like gold, and the male crab paste is like jade. The taste is delicious. The crown among crabs is worthy of it. Eating hairy crabs is a matter of great importance. Laymen eat hairy crabs like a gulp, and it ends before they even taste it. This is unacceptable to Suzhou people. It is not about being picky, but out of caution and respect for the food they love. Most Suzhou people can still put the hairy crab shells into their original appearance after eating the hairy crabs. It is amazing. From the preparation of ingredients to the consumption, this kind of respect for delicious food. It vividly reflects the exquisiteness and indifference in the bones of Suzhou people.

For outsiders, Suzhou in August and September is a time of crisp autumn. There is no boredom from the generation of Guangdong and Guangxi, and no dryness in the north. In August and September, in Bacheng, Suzhou, the golden chrysanthemums and lake light are reflected together, and the autumn sun meets the autumnal equinox. It is a good place to travel and enjoy the scenery. When you arrive in Bacheng, you will not be considered to have come to Yangcheng Lake without eating a fresh portion of hairy crabs. It can be said: Not until Lushan Mountain fails to live up to your eyes, and not eating crabs fails to live up to your stomach. August and September is a good time to eat hairy crabs. At this time, you can eat a portion of crab roe, drink a glass of rice wine, enjoy the lake light, and watch the yellow chrysanthemums. It is beautiful. It has a taste.

Bacheng is located on the east bank of Yangcheng Lake. It is the hometown of PLO, the first crab-eater. It is the famous "No. 1 Crab City in the World". In August and September, Bacheng has a different kind of scenery. There are many tourists on the roadside, the shops are very lively, and the fishermen are happy with a bumper harvest. How not to go to such a beautiful scenery? How can we let down? Of course, when traveling, merchants and shops are also mixed, and the same is true in Yangcheng Lake. If you want to eat authentic and delicious hairy crabs, you need to have a pair of discerning eyes.

But many people went to Bacheng and were dumbfounded when they arrived. Any store said that they were selling Yangcheng Lake. As outsiders, we couldn't tell it at all. The whole light turned dark. Everyone knows that the price of Yangcheng Lake crabs is not very cheap, but it doesn't matter if you want to eat them more expensive. What you are most afraid of is that you spend real money but you don't get authentic crabs. That would be sad.

In recent years, the country has paid more and more attention to protecting the water environment. The purse seine breeding area in Yangcheng Lake has been greatly reduced. Now it is only 1600 acres, and the annual output is only about 1300 tons. However, the market is mixed with good and bad people, and "big miscellaneous crabs" are sold at high prices under the guise of "Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs". Instead of looking for authentic Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs, it is better to taste the cost-effective ecological crabs like the locals.

There is such a time-honored crab farm in Bacheng, Yangcheng Lake. The shop owner in Asi Crab Farm in Bacheng is kind, the clerk treats people with sincerity, and the scenery inside the village is pleasant. It is also a good place for tourists.

The boss was the first batch of fishermen to engage in purse seine breeding hairy crabs in response to the government's call in 1989. In order to open up sales, in 1993, several crab buckets were set up on the roadside of Hubin Road in Bacheng to sell hairy crabs. Later, it was discovered that many Shanghai tourists who came to Yangcheng Lake to escape the heat could not find a place to eat anywhere. So in 1995, Ah Si rented a store opposite the resort center to cook fish, shrimp, crabs and other aquatic products and farm dishes from Yangcheng Lake for tourists who wanted to eat. Unexpectedly, the hairy crabs that every family in Yangcheng Lake can cook will be welcomed by tourists from Shanghai. Many tourists will come to try this steamed hairy crab specially.

Although crabs cannot be raised in the lake now, owner Zhu Asi began to transform and moved hairy crabs to high-standard ponds outside the lake for breeding. Ah Si, who drank water and thought of his source, actively responded to the policy and took the initiative to hand in his breeding license. Years of hairy crab breeding skills can also be demonstrated in modern high-standard ecological breeding ponds. The high-standard pond outside the lake in Asi uses Yangcheng Lake water as a water source, is also equipped with complete infrastructure for scientific and reasonable feeding, and invites experts to regularly test water quality. Now in terms of quality, the hairy crabs cultivated by Ah Si are equally divided into lake crabs in Yangcheng Lake. Due to its affordable price and high cost performance, it is very popular among local residents!

In Asi Crab Farm in Bacheng, you can drink a cup of rice wine and yellow chrysanthemum paste. If you go there and enjoy such beautiful scenery and delicious food, you will not live up to your life.