Shen Collection, Middle Volume. Radical: Insect (chóng). 23 strokes. Page 1081, Entry 05.
Pianhai: The same as gu.
Tangyun: Pronounced gu. Jiyun, Yunhui: Pronounced gu (rising tone). Zhengyun: Pronounced gu (rising tone).
Shuowen: Insects within the abdomen.
Tongzhi, Liushu Lue: The method of creating gu involves placing various insects in a vessel, allowing them to devour one another, with the final survivor being the gu.
Zuo Zhuan, First Year of Duke Zhao: Examining the character structure, a vessel containing insects is gu. Annotation: A vessel being infested by insects is gu.
Zhou Li, Autumn Officials, Shu Clan: In charge of exorcising poisonous gu.
Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Annals of Qin: In the second year of Duke De, the dog-days were first established to use dogs to ward off gu infestations.
Also, Zuo Zhuan, First Year of Duke Zhao: Flying insects emerging from grain are also called gu.
Shuyi Ji: During the end of the Jin dynasty, there was prolonged rain in Jingzhou, and millet turned into gu insects.
Also, Shuowen: The spirits of those who were executed or died unnatural deaths may also become gu.
Also, Gudiao: A type of animal. Classic of Mountains and Seas (Shanhaijing): On Luwu Mountain, there is an animal named gudiao; its shape is like an eagle but with horns, and its cry resembles that of an infant.
Also, Erya, Shugu: Gu means to be confused.
Zuo Zhuan Annotation: Gu is a type of confusing illness, a disease where the mind is deluded and disordered.
Also, name of a hexagram. Book of Changes (Yijing): Xun below, Gen above, is the Gu hexagram. Xugua Zhuan: Gu means affairs.
Also, Jiyun: Pronounced gu (falling tone). The meaning is the same.
Also, Zhengyun: Pronounced ye (rising tone). It means charming.
Also, Jiyun: The sound and meaning are the same as the character ye.
Book of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu), Biography of Ma Rong, Guangcheng Song: Fields open and are gu. Annotation: Gu is synonymous with ye.
Gu Kaozheng: Erya, Shugu: Gu, is confusion. Zuo Zhuan Annotation: Gu, confusing illness, is a disease of mental confusion and disorder. We have corrected the original text to change the character meaning ritual to disorder.
