Wu Shu-he says that in his experience, to prepare a good specimen you have to put a great deal of effort into understanding the structure of the crab's body. Traditionally, most people preparing crab specimens didn't understand the crabs '" skeleton, "and after dismantling the shell and removing the meat they would reassemble it with metal wires, making it look very unnatural.
吳書和根據自己的經驗指出，想做好螃蟹標本，得下苦功瞭解螃蟹的構造，傳統製作甲殼動物的人往往不瞭解螃蟹「骨架」，拆掉外殼、取下肉後再以鋼絲拼裝回去，看來極其僵硬。