Si Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Fire (huǒ) Page 665, Entry 16 Broad Rimes (Guangyun), Collected Rimes (Jiyun), Dictionary of Rhymes (Yunhui), Correct Rimes (Zhengyun): Pronounced deng. Emerald Chapters (Yupian): A flame or light. Record of Retiring from Court in Spring Brightness (Chunming Tuichao Lu): During the Lantern Festival, lights were burned from dusk until dawn. Miscellaneous Records of the Western Capital (Xijing Zaji): On the night of the Lantern Festival, nine-flowered lanterns were burned on South Mountain, illuminating the area for one hundred miles. Also: In the Xianyang Palace, there was a green jade five-branched lamp, seven feet and five inches high, crafted in the shape of a coiled dragon. It held the lamp in its mouth, and when lit, the scales and armor seemed to move, shining like a string of stars. Additionally: In Buddhist texts, lamps are used as a metaphor for the Dharma; there is the Record of the Transmission of the Lamp (Chuandeng Lu). Poetry by Du Fu: Transmitting the lamp with no daylight. Also: Dictionary of Correct Characters (Zhengzitong): The golden lamp herb, also known as mountain mushroom, is used in medical prescriptions combined into pills called Jade Pivot Pills, detailed in the Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu). Also: Rhymes with dang. Rhapsody on the Whale Lamp by Wei Shu: Depicting its form, entrusted to the golden lamp; its spine rises and its tail is held high, with scales and fins spread out. Collected Rimes (Jiyun): Originally written as the character for lamp (dèng). Etymology Dictionary (Shuowen): The character for lamp (dèng) means a pedestal. Annotation: Xu Xuan states: Candles were placed inside the pedestal, hence it was called the lamp (dèng). The modern colloquial form is written as lamp (dēng), which is incorrect.