Peeling crab shells, sucking crab feet, picking crab meat, and dipping in crab sauce, diners feel the beauty of being in the regions south of the Yangtze River.

The Yangcheng Lake hairy crab is also known as the golden claw crab . Because the crab body is not muddy, it is commonly known as the clear water hairy crab. It has green shell and white belly, with good meat quality and greasy crab cream. Therefore, it has the reputation of king of the crab .

The surimi sticks of crabmeat, or is being sold as crab meat, is white fish that's being dyed with cochineal.

At present, Bacheng has built five crab markets of Crab Boat Garden, Fishmen Village, Spring and Autumn Waterside Town, Lakeside Crab market, Zhengyi Bajiexie Market and food street. There are as many as 1,300 large and small restaurants used Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs as topic. The crab restaurants placed closely side by side are very fascinating, and the heavy traffic on the street at the peak of the passengers has become a unique landscape.

Crab farmer Chang Jianhua, who has been in hairy crabs industry for nearly 20 years, is planning to export the seedlings and breeding techniques of Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs to Thailand, so that the waterside foods can cross national borders and promote cultural exchanges with overseas cuisine.

Here's crabs here, worms here.

And I don't mean chewing the crabs.

And the crabs don't like it at all.

And one idea comes from lessons from chewing crabs.

But I'm talking about the crabs actually doing the chewing.

The annual Yangcheng Lake Crab Culture Tourism Festival kicked off on the 30th. According to Gu Wenhua, secretary of the Party Committee of Bacheng Town, the hometown of Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs , the annual economic output of the hairy crabs in the town is nearly 3.8 billion yuan and the net earning is over 600 million yuan.

Now, they normally retract as soon as a crab touches them.

I have a hermit crab named Hawthorne, who doesn't get a lot of respect as a hermit crab, so he kind of wishes he were a great white shark.

So, the bacteria grows hair on the crab.

Crab chewing is actually really fascinating.

And I don't know whether they actually saw crab in it, or imagined that one might be, but whatever the case, they would leap off the bottom and go through the water and land right on top of this coral head, and then the web between the arms would completely engulf the coral head, and they would fish out, swim for crabs.

The hairy crab is the most famous image spokesperson in Bacheng.

I grew up in Baltimore, and I chew crabs very, very well.

DG You can see, here's a crab that lives down there.

These long filaments that you see on the back of the crab are actually created by the product of that bacteria.

And as soon as the crabs touched the arm, it was lights out.

Meaning, nothing that we do can we be the first ones to do it.

Vision was refined in horseshoe crabs, among the first to leave the sea.

So, as soon as a crab touches them, they retract down into their shells, just like your fingernails.

Well it turns out it's these neuromodulators, just like the neuromodulators in that little tiny ganglion in the crabs.

According to crab farmer Jin Wei, more diners will spend more time staying in Bacheng this year. On the edge of the vast Yangcheng Lake, watch the egrets prey, enjoy the sunset, experience the fun of catching crabs, and enjoy the slow paced water town life.

Turning rocks over revealed this crab spider grappling with a beetle.

This is slowed down 20 fold, and the crab just zooms across that simulated debris.

And living amongst the tangle of tube worms is an entire community of animals shrimp, fish, lobsters, crab, clams and swarms of arthropods that are playing that dangerous game between over here is scalding hot and freezing cold.

Eating crabs during the Mid Autumn Day with orange osmanthus fragrance has become a customary convention.

We did that by putting these artificial spines on crabs, as you see here, and then we tested them.

And I bought some crabs too right around there, and some chitlins at the Safeway in Emoryville.

And now I'm not swimming with a nice long stroke, I'm sort of crabbing it this way.

Both parties absolutely need to resolve it, but neither party wants to be seen as the first to resolve it.

The crabs are missing spines, so they have a problem in this kind of rough terrain.

There are a few people who don't like shrimp, but shrimp, or crabs, or crayfish, are very closely related.

Here's a crab with his claw right at the end of that tube worm, waiting for that worm to stick his head out.

Due to the widespread introduction of large sized offspring seedlings in Bacheng, the hairy crabs that have been out of the water this year are much larger than before.

Crabs have this complicated structure under their carapace called the gastric mill that grinds their food in a variety of different ways.

Now crabs don't miss footholds, because they normally move on sand until they come to our lab.

What they're getting at is that on the back of this crab the foodstuff here is this very strange bacteria that lives on the backs of all these animals.

But he looked at me, and he said, Son he's my age, by the way, he calls me son, I love that he says, Son, I'm a captain of a crab boat.

Gu Wenhua introduced that, One Crab attracts nearly 3 million tourists from home and abroad every year, and also forms the Bacheng with two horizontal and two vertical and lively old streets.

And I'll never forget, up in the Bering Sea, I was on a crab boat with the Deadliest Catch guys which I also work on in the first season.

72 percent of the population has such scars, but most don't shed the gear, things like lobster traps and crab pots.