Suckled by a crab Marshal Tiandu is typically portrayed as a youth wearing a scholar's cap and gown and sporting a pair of long braided queues hanging down from the back of his head. And oddly enough, his statues always have a crab painted over his mouth or on the forehead.
螃蟹餵哺頭戴簪花狀元帽，身穿狀元服，腦後垂著兩條長辮子，而最特別的是，嘴上或額頭上畫著一隻螃蟹，這位造型特別、年輕俊秀的神明，就是田都元帥。