The paintings often depict a crab grasping a reed or some other water plant in its pincers, walking along all alone, a picture which causes people's mouths to water as they reflect on a nice, fat, autumn crab.
畫中常是畫一蟹挾蘆葦、水草踽踽而行，令人聯想到清秋肥蟹，垂涎欲滴。