Thanks to several hundred years of advertising in The Dream of the Red Chamber, Chinese today still love to eat the Chinese mitten crabs of Jiangsu Province's Lake Yangcheng. Lu Yao-tung recalls how in the 1940s film The Spring Waters Flow East, which is set during the war with Japan; someone talks about "crabs riding in aeroplanes."
經過經典名著《紅樓夢》幾百年來的廣告，今天華人仍熱中吃江蘇陽澄湖產的大閘蟹，逯耀東回憶抗戰時看過電影《一江春水向東流》，其中有句詞說：大閘蟹坐飛機凌空八隻腳。