Wei Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Rice (mǐ) Gao (cake) Kangxi strokes: 16 Page 911, Entry 37 Collection of Rhymes (Jiyun): Pronounced gao. Same as gao (a type of steamed cake). It means porridge or mush. Wild Guest Anthology (Yeke Congshu): Liu Mengde once wrote a poem for the Double Ninth Festival and wanted to use the character for gao, but thinking that the character did not appear in the Six Classics, he refrained from doing so. Thus, Song Jingwen wrote in his Double Ninth Festival poem: Master Liu would not compose a poem with the character for gao, in vain he neglected the hero of his lifetime. Rites of Zhou (Zhouli), Offices of Heaven, Commentary on the Bamboo Basket Men: Offering the contents of the bamboo baskets, dried grain cakes and rice flour cakes. The annotation says that cakes are called ci. The commentary notes that today these are called ci-gao, and that the character for gao is not absent from the Six Classics. Records of Pine Desert (Songmo Jiwen): In the Jin Dynasty, there were baojie-gao cakes on the Double Ninth Festival. Textual Research: Wild Guest Anthology (Yeke Congshu) Rites of Zhou (Zhouli), Offices of Heaven, Commentary on the Bamboo Basket Men: Offering the contents of the bamboo baskets, dried grain cakes and rice flour cakes. Zheng Notes: Today these are called ci-gao, and the character for gao is not absent from the Six Classics. Corrected according to original text: Rites of Zhou, Commentary on the Bamboo Basket Men, Offering the contents of the bamboo baskets, dried grain cakes and rice flour cakes. The annotation says that cakes are called ci. The commentary notes that today these are called ci-gao, and that the character for gao is not absent from the Six Classics.