Xu Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Metal (jīn) 釣; Kangxi strokes: 11; Page 1296 Tang Rhymes (Tangyun), Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), Dictionary of Rhymes (Yunhui), Correct Rhymes (Zhengyun): Pronounced diào. Shuowen Jiezi (Shuowen): To fish with a hook. Book of Odes (Shijing), Odes of Shao: What is it that he fishes for? Commentary: Fishing is using this to seek something from that. Huainanzi (Huainanzi), Discourses on Mountains (Shuoshun): Gong Zhan fished for a thousand-year-old carp. Master Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals (Lüshi Chunqiu): Taigong fished at Ziquan, and by doing so encountered King Wen. Song Yu, Rhapsody on Fishing (Diaofu): The fishing of the ancient sages Yao, Shun, Yu, and Tang used holy virtue as the rod, the Dao as the line, benevolence and righteousness as the hook, salary and profit as the bait, the four seas as the pond, and the ten thousand people as the fish. Also means to obtain. Huainanzi (Huainanzi), Instructions on the Ruler's Arts (Zhushuxun): The Duke of Yu loved precious items, and the state of Jin offered jade and horses to fish for his favor. Also a surname. Comprehensive Dictionary of Characters (Zhengzitong): During the Shaoxing era of the Song dynasty, there was a scholar named Diao Hong.