Appreciating chrysanthemums with paws and drinking and reciting poems are indispensable elegant things for ancient literati and poets every autumn. Bi, a poet of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, said, "Holding a crab claw and a wine glass and patting it in a floating wine pool is enough for a lifetime." Li Bai, a great poet, said, "Crab pincers and golden liquid are bad for Penglai, so you have to drink alcohol and go to the high platform on the moon." Thus, the weight of eating crabs and drinking in the minds of these writers.
In the Tang Dynasty, Li Shi's poem "Crab Fu" said: "Cicada-eyed turtles are like spiders, and they have never faced people. Now being nailed to a banquet is like wandering in the rivers and lakes. " Don Yan Qian's poem "Crab" intones: "One hand is full of rubies, and two claws are crisp and fragrant. Sell mud and seal wine on the shore, chew it carefully and pour it diligently. " Pi Rixiu's "Crab" is a famous sentence praising crabs: "You are famous for not swimming in the sea, but you have a stomach, and you are born of meat; Mo Dao is not afraid of thunder and lightning, and the sea dragon king is rampant everywhere. " This paper vividly describes the morphological characteristics of river crabs and the unique flavor of crab meat, and metaphorically praises the crab's "rampage" as a brave and fearless behavior.
Scholars in the Song Dynasty recited many poems about crabs. Lu You's poem "Bad Crab" intones: "Old friends have forgotten each other for a long time, but sons care for each other. They will never regret getting drunk in Shangqiu. It seems that they are heartless. " "The one-foot-round frost crab is beautiful and fragrant." "The crab fat is coveted for a while, and the wine is bright." Chen's poem "Ode to a Crab" says: "You don't count the number of fish, but you care about health. However, it is very embarrassing to see the rampage, but I don't know that my son has no intestines. " Huang Tingjian said in his poem: "Although the shape is horizontal, the taste can comfort the face of a strong man." "The taste is extremely pleasant. This thing is really unparalleled." "It's not as good as two claws, so it's comparable to wine." Zhang Lei's poem said: "I know from a distance that the crabs in September have been frosted;" The heavy gold in the basket, the paws are white and fragrant; Dust leaves the old country, and poetry and wine are sent to other places; If there are no western envoys, why go to Luoyang? "These poems all express the desire to eat crabs and the richness and delicacy of crabs, but it is wrong to say that crabs are heartless sons. Actually, crabs have intestines.
In the Ming Dynasty, Xu Wei said that the poem "Qian Wang Sun Xiang Crab" chanted: "Kun Sheng exchanged words for frost crabs, and served a letter to exchange books for ice cream. It is also the belly of the old man Yingkou, and the discipline of half plum wins the cricket. " Most ancient literati were penniless, exchanging calligraphy and painting for money and trying their best to eat crabs.
Huang, a scholar in Qing Dynasty, wrote in "Eating Crab Song": "Cancer has a big horn and a big side." "The tooth force turns into pieces, and the entrance of muscle snow does not stop." "People holding a laugh, eat more than me, all with coach; I don't care about the wrist in front of the lamp, but I've been paying attention to it for a long time. ""If you are covered with fat, you won't give up. " "From you to the sea, the strike began. The less you know, the more you will raise money. When you are drunk, you will see the passengers in a mess, and the umbilical cord will stay on your body and pounce on Sanchi. " These poems not only introduce the morphological characteristics of river crabs, but also describe the sitting guests and kung fu of eating crabs, and also vividly describe the greedy diners. In Sun Jinhao's Eat Crabs, he said: "A gluttonous person who eats a lot is really greedy. Gold paste is thick and greasy, and jade grease is smoother than clam. " The poet vividly described the plump beauty of the male crab, which made people drool.
Cao Xueqin has three famous poems about crabs in the thirty-eighth chapter of A Dream of Red Mansions, namely, "Lin Xiaoxiang's poem of seizing chrysanthemums, Xue Heng's satirical poem and crab rhyme poem". Jia Baoyu said with a smile, "Today, it is not without poetry to reward laurel with pliers. I have sung it, who dares to do it? " The poem says: "Claws are more like the shade of osmanthus flowers, and vinegar pours ginger crazily. The gluttonous prince and grandson should have wine, but the rampant son has no intestines. Cold accumulation between umbilicus forgets jealousy, and fingers are stained with fishy fragrance. It was originally a good taste in the world, and Poxian once laughed all his life. " Lin Daiyu also wrote a poem: "I haven't forgotten the death of the armored commander. I like to taste the pile of colors first." The chelated tender jade is full, with red grease protruding from the shell and fragrant. What a pity it is to have more meat. Who will advise me to help you? Sijia Festival, fragrant chrysanthemum with frost. Xue Baochai also sang a song: "Gui sits in the shade and Chang 'an looks forward to Chongyang. There is no latitude and longitude in the road ahead, and the skin is black and yellow in spring and autumn. Chrysanthemum should also be used before waking up, and ginger is needed to prevent cold accumulation. What's the good of falling into the kettle today? Yuepu has a leisurely meal. "These three poems are about the science of eating crabs. One is "vinegar on ginger"; The second is to prevent "cold accumulation between umbilicus"; Third, "chrysanthemum is still used when the wine is not awake, and ginger must be used to prevent cold accumulation." "The poem is full of tender jade, convex shell and fragrant red fat" can be called a poem about crabs.
There are also some unknown poems about crabs, such as: "beautiful as a jade pillar, as rare as an oyster house, as brittle as a stone tongue, as fat as the fat of the right army." "Don't live up to Lushan Mountain, don't live up to your stomach without eating crabs." "The navel in September is sharp in October, and drinking chrysanthemums with claws." Ms. Tang Guoli, the wife of Mr. Zhang Taiyan in modern times, lived in Suzhou for a long time. After eating Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs, she couldn't help singing: "Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs are not delicious. Why do you live in Suzhou in this life?" This can be regarded as the famous crab-eating quatrain.