Crab Mythology

In the eight immortals across the sea, an important chinese work of the ming dynasty, you basically have the story of these powerful humanoid beings using their various powers to cross the ocean and kind of show off as they're doing it. And crossing the ocean also entails out smarting and overpowering the dragon king, as this is his domain. It's said that the dragon king is served by shrimp soldiers and crab generals,. These sort of shrimp soldiers and Crab generals also show up in tales of the monkey king when he encounters the dragon king or the dragon king's soldiers.