The former chairman of Yuchu Temple, Shih Chao-hsing, explains: "That's because Marshal Tiandu was abandoned as a infant, and he was just lucky that a big crab came and suckled him with a sort of foam, and a duck protected him under its wing. That's how he survived."
因為，「田都元帥小時候，被人棄養，好加在有大螃蟹前來吐出泡沫哺育，又有鴨子以羽翼覆蓋，才得以生存，」玉渠宮前主委施肇興解釋。