Chou Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Earth (tǔ) Bang Kangxi strokes: 10 Page 229, Entry 06 Pronounced bang. It is the essence of earth. According to Song Dynasty Fiction (Song xiaoshuo), when Xu Tingping was overseeing the liquor tax in Luzhou, he obtained an object by the river that looked like a child’s palm without fingers. Fearing it, he buried it. Someone said this was what the Illustrated Scroll of White Marsh (Baize tu) called a bang; consuming it grants great strength.