Chou Collection, Middle Volume. Radical: Earth (tǔ). Kangxi brush strokes: 11. Page 232, Entry 04. Pronounced dui (level tone). A gathering of earth. Book of Chu (Chuci), Nine Laments (Jiu tan): Like a mountain peak piled high to block the view. Also, to set aside. Intrigues of the Warring States (Zhan guo ce): Zhong Qi set aside his zither. Annotation: This is like the mention of setting aside the zither in the Analects (Lunyu). Also, a place name. Book of Han (Hanshu), Treatise on Geography (Dili zhi): The Shu Commander Li Bing cut through the Li mound to calm the water disaster. Dui is also written as a variant form. Also, Yanyu Mound, located in Kuizhou, Shu. Du Fu's poetry: Formerly clinging to the Jin River with double tears, it is good to pass Yanyu Mound in the Qutang Gorge. Also, a type of bird. There is a bird in Mount Li named Alan Dui. During the Tang dynasty, the emperor played the jade flute, and its sound was adapted into a musical composition. Zhang You's poetry: To this day, the customs beneath Mount Li include village flutes that still play the Alan Dui tune. Also, a dust heap. Anecdotes from the Golden Slope (Jinpo yishi): In the customs of Wu, at dawn on New Year's Eve, servants hold sticks and strike the manure heap, reciting prayers for profit, which is called striking the dust heap. In the Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), it is written as dui (mortar). In the Book of Han (Hanshu), it is written as dui (variant). It is commonly written as dui (variant).