What should you pay attention to when eating crabs on Double Ninth Festival?

What should you pay attention to when eating crabs on Double Ninth Festival?
Introduction: On the Double Ninth Festival, the Fortune Teller website has compiled a special article about the Double Ninth Festival for everyone, let’s learn about it together! Eating crabs during the Double Ninth Festival is a folk custom. There is no doubt that crabs on this day are no longer just ordinary food, but have become a carrier of traditional culture, just like eating glutinous rice balls on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month and eating rice dumplings on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. They were once an indispensable delicacy in many places and families in the past.
Probably since the Tang Dynasty, eating crabs has been added to the Double Ninth Festival:
On the ninth day of the ninth month, Emperor Zhongzong of the Tang Dynasty visited Weiting and wrote a poem on the top of the mountain… It was the second year of the Jinglong reign. The imperial preface says: "Tao Qian holds a full hand, and has already floated the joy of nine wines; Bi Zhuo holds a claw, and must enjoy the joy of his whole life. (Quoted from the fourth volume of "Wang Changhui's Poetry Talk" in the Ming Dynasty, "Emperor")
The wine is already mellow and fresh, and the crab roe is solid and does not need frost. (Song Dynasty: Han Qi, The Ninth Day Water Pavilion)
I love those things when autumn comes: picking yellow flowers with dew, cooking purple crabs with frost, boiling wine and roasting red leaves. Life is limited, how many Double Ninth Festivals can we have? (Ma Zhiyuan, Yuan Dynasty, "Shuangdiao·Night Boat")
In addition, a folk song in Shaoxing, Zhejiang goes: "On the ninth day of the ninth month, eat lake crabs with old wine"; a famous proverb in the south of the Yangtze River goes: "On the Double Ninth Festival in September, eat crabs" (crabs are the common name for crabs)...all reveal the information of eating crabs on the Double Ninth Festival. It is particularly worth mentioning that Lin Daiyu in Cao Xueqin's Dream of the Red Chamber said "I enjoy this fine food as a reward for the festival", and Xue Baochai said "People in Chang'an are looking forward to the Double Ninth Festival with great anticipation", which shows that by the Qing Dynasty, eating crabs had become a common practice on the Double Ninth Festival and it was also an indispensable food on the festival. Crabs are not only delicious, but also rich in vitamins and have certain medicinal value. Crab meat is cold in nature and salty in taste. It has the functions of relaxing muscles and replenishing qi, regulating the stomach and digesting food, dredging meridians, dispersing various heat, clearing away heat, and nourishing yin. It can treat bruises, muscle injuries, fractures, and allergic dermatitis. In addition, crab meat has a good therapeutic effect on hypertension, arteriosclerosis, cerebral thrombosis, hyperlipidemia and various cancers. However, there are some things to pay attention to when eating it. If you eat it incorrectly, your body may have problems.
1. Crabs should be steamed and cooked thoroughly. Do not eat raw crabs. Crabs feed on animal carcasses or humus, so the crab's body surface, gills and gastrointestinal tract are covered with various bacteria and sludge.
Some people do not get sick because they do not wash crabs cleanly, do not steam or cook them thoroughly, or eat them raw, drunken or pickled crabs, and thus eat the germs or parasites in the crab's body into their stomachs. How can they not get sick? If you steam and cook the food thoroughly before eating, this problem will not occur.
2. Crabs and certain foods will counteract each other when eaten together. Crabs should not be eaten with sweet potatoes, pumpkins, honey, pears, pomegranates, tomatoes, cantaloupes, peanuts, snails, celery, persimmons, rabbit meat, and nepeta. Do not drink cold drinks when eating crabs as it will cause diarrhea.
3. Do not eat dead crabs. Eat fresh crabs instead. The rigor mortis and autolysis periods after the crab dies are greatly shortened. The bacteria in the crab's body will multiply rapidly and spread into the crab meat, causing vomiting, abdominal pain, and diarrhea in the eater.
The shell of a fresh live crab is glossy blue-black, with a full navel and a clean white abdomen. The shell of a dying crab is yellow, and its legs are soft, making it difficult to turn over.

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