You Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Cowrie (bèi) Cong Kangxi brush strokes: 15 Page 1210, Entry 05 Broad Rimes (Guangyun): Pronounced cong. Collected Rimes (Jiyun) and Rhyme Compendium (Yunhui): Pronounced cong. Explanation of Graphs (Shuowen): A tax levied on the Southern Barbarians. History of the Later Han (Houhan Shu), Account of the Southern Barbarians: Each year the leader is ordered to pay one bolt of cloth, and commoners two zhang (a measure of length), which is known as cong cloth. Customs and Traditions (Fengsu Tong): The Ba region has the Cong people, who are fierce and brave. Fan Mu of Langzhong advised the High Ancestor to recruit the Cong people to pacify the three Qin territories. Yang Xiong, Rhapsody on the Capital of Shu (Shu Du Fu): To the east are the Ba and Cong, stretching across the lands of the hundred Pu tribes.