Hai Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Fish (yú) Bian; Kangxi strokes: 20 Page 1474, Entry 08 In Explaining Graphs and Analyzing Characters (Shuowen Jiezi), bian is the same as bian. In the commentary to the Explication of Fishes (Erya), it is noted that in the regions east of the Yangtze River, the bream (fang) is called bian. In Song Yu's Rhapsody on Fishing (Diao Fu), the thoughts do not extend beyond the scope of crucian carp and bream. The History of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu), in the Biography of Ma Rong, mentions the bream, the bighead carp, the sturgeon, and the bian fish. Commentary: The bian is a type of bream. The Biographies of Elders of Xiangyang record: The bian fish of Hanzhong has a very delicious taste; the government often prohibited the people from catching it. People used wooden rafts to obstruct the water flow to catch these fish, which is why they are called the raft-headed contracted-neck bian. Additionally, in the poems of Liu Yan, there is the line: Returning to fish at the pool head for the maple-leaf bian. Also, in the Broad Rhymes (Guangyun), pronounced ban. Also, in the Collection of Rhymes (Jiyun), pronounced ban. The meaning is the same.