Hai Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Sacrificial wine (chàng) Kangxi stroke count: 10 Page 1458, Entry 10 Pronounced chàng. According to the Shuowen Jiezi (Shuowen): Brewed using black millet and aromatic herbs, its fragrance carries far, and it is used to invoke spirits. Book of Changes (Yijing), Hexagram Zhen: One does not lose the sacrificial ladle or the fragrant wine. Commentary: The fragrant wine is a premium offering used for ancestral temple sacrifices. Book of Documents (Shujing), Announcement of Luo (Luogao): Use two vessels of black millet fragrant wine to perform the bright, pure sacrifice. Commentary: Black millet is called ju, and it is brewed using the aromatic chang herb. Book of Odes (Shijing), Greater Odes (Daya): One vessel of black millet fragrant wine. Commentary: Chang is an aromatic herb. It is pounded, steamed, mixed, and left to mature, which is called chang. Rites of Zhou (Zhouli), Ministry of Spring: The official in charge of fragrant wine manages the supply of black millet fragrant wine and its ornamentation. Commentary: This wine is brewed from black millet, and its fragrance penetrates between heaven and earth. Also, Book of Odes (Shijing), Odes of Zheng (Zhengfeng): Restrain the bow in the bag. Commentary: To bag the bow means to place it inside a bow case. Also written as the character for flourishing (chàng). History of the Former Han (Qian Hanshu), Treatise on Suburban Sacrifices (Jiaosi Zhi): Plants and trees flourish. Commentary: Shigu states that this character is the same as the character for flourishing (chàng). According to the Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), it is also written in a variant form.