Witness unique crab "hunting" styles in Nghe An
(Baonghean.vn) - Field crabs can be used to make many delicious dishes. To improve their meals, Thanh Chuong people have come up with many effective ways to hunt crabs.
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Crab-catching is a way to catch crabs in flooded rice fields using a bamboo or steel stick. The crab-catcher just pushes the stick across the rice field. Flooded rice fields are often the place where many crab-catchers are found. Photo: Huy Thu |
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Crab hunting attracts both young and old to participate, with children being the most active force. Photo: Huy Thu |
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Crab hunting not only helps people improve their meals but also brings joy to many people in the fields. Photo: Huy Thu |
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Only when they have caught a certain amount of crabs or when their legs are tired from wading through the fields, the "crabbers" will leave. Photo: Huy Thu |
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Not only hunting crabs during the day, at night the fields are lit by flashlights of people hunting crabs at night. Photo: Huy Thu |
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Two indispensable items for night crab hunters are a flashlight and a container, which can be a plastic bucket, bamboo basket, etc. Photo: Huy Thu |
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Hunting crabs at night is a simple way to catch crabs, just walk around the fields and see crabs and "take a picture". Photo: Huy Thu |
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Picking up crabs after the rain is the simplest way to catch crabs. You don't have to "go out at night and come back at night." Just wait for heavy rain, flood the fields, and crabs to crawl out of their holes, then you can pick them up. Photo: Huy Thu |
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Of all the crab hunting methods, crab fishing is probably the hardest job. They use bamboo sticks with earthworms attached as bait and stick them into the fields, wait for the crabs to eat them and calculate the time to go and catch the crabs. Photo: Huy Thu |
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Although crab fishing is hard work, having to wade through deep fields, soaking clothes in water, braving the cold rain, we still catch quite a lot of crabs. Photo: Huy Thu |
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After wading through the fields, crab hunters will find fresh crabs to improve their meals. Delicious dishes made from crabs not only make meals more flavorful but also retain childhood memories for many people. Photo: Huy Thu |
Crab hunting in Thanh Luong commune, Thanh Chuong district. Clip: Huy Thu |