What was the nickname of the ancient crab?

The ancient people called crab crab.

In ancient times, China called crabs crabs, which were recorded in many ancient books. In addition, crabs were also known as heartless sons, such as the crab poems written by Tang Yanqian in the Tang Dynasty, which claimed that heartless sons were beautiful, and forbade them to run wild. Lu You also wrote "Ode to Bad Crabs". Old friends have forgotten each other for a long time, and the son has a long taste, and he will never regret it when he is drunk. It seems that he is heartless.

crabs are crustaceans. Breathe on your cheeks all the time. In China, eating crabs has a long history. Everyone knows that crabs are good, but remember that dead crabs can't be eaten.

Since ancient times, literati have formed an indissoluble bond with crabs. With their subtle observation and rich imagination of crabs, they have been endowed with various appropriate nicknames.

Four nicknames for crabs:

1. Sharp ball. Su Dongpo's poem "Sharp Mission": "You can laugh at Wuzhong's gluttony, and one poem is worth two sharp missions." The word "pointed ball" in the poem includes pointed navel and ball navel, that is, male crab and female crab. The navel of the abdominal armor of the male crab is pointed, called pointed navel; The navel of the abdominal shell of the female crab is round, called the ball navel, which is collectively called the pointed ball.

2. Inner Yellow Hou. Because there is an orange colloidal object in the shell of crab, it is called crab yellow, which is not only rich in nutrition, but also more delicious than crab meat, so it is called "Inner Yellow Hou" by Hou Wang. In the Song Dynasty, there was a poem "Xie Luxian sent a crab": "I never admire the yellow marquis, and the flavor is first-class."

3. Guo suo. "Tai Xuanrui" by Yang Xiong in the Han Dynasty: "The crab's Guo Suo has different hearts." Sima Guang's Notes in the Song Dynasty: "Guo Suo is full of feet and looks restless." It refers to the way crabs crawl, and also refers to the "Guo Suo Guo Suo" sound made by crabs when they crawl.

4, no intestines, no intestines. Ge Hong in Jin Dynasty's "Embracing the Puzi": "He who is called a heartless son is also a crab." There is a similar saying in Feng Zhi's Miscellanies of Yunxian in the Tang Dynasty: "The crab is called a heartless son." "Crab" in Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica in the Ming Dynasty explained: "If it is empty inside, it is said that there is no intestine." It is named because there is no intestines in the crab shell.

5, eight feet, eight feet. Crabs have two big claws and four pairs of appendages, namely crab feet. They are often called "eight feet" or "eight feet" in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai. In the thirty-eighth chapter of A Dream of Red Mansions, "Being fleshy is more pity for your eight feet. Who will advise me to help you?"