The ancient people’s elegant names for crabs include the following:
1. Crab: It is a common name for crab, used to refer to this arthropod in the ocean or fresh water.
2. Tide crab: used to describe the phenomenon of crabs appearing when the tide is high or when the tide changes, emphasizing the connection between crabs and ocean tides.
3. Rhinoceros: Crabs are sometimes called rhino crabs, perhaps because their hard shells or sharp claws are somewhat similar in shape to those of a rhinoceros.
4. Beetle: Crabs are sometimes called beetles, emphasizing their hard shell and belonging to the phylum Arthropod.
5. Nie Yinniang: In the ancient literary work "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio", the story of the crab and the woman Nie Yinniang was widely spread, so the crab was sometimes called Nie Yinniang or the lady crab.
It should be noted that these elegant names are mainly obtained from ancient documents, poems, songs and stories, and are used to describe the characteristics of crabs, their connection with nature, and their imagination and praise of crabs. Ancient people had a strong interest in crabs, which also made crabs an image-rich and symbolic animal in literature and culture.
