Shen Collection, Middle Volume. Radical: Insect (chóng). Character: Jie. Kangxi strokes: 13. Page 1085, Entry 10. Pronounced jie. Shijie, name of an insect. Jiang Yan, Preface to Rhapsody on the Rock Barnacle (Shijie Fu): Coastal people eat the rock barnacle; another name for it is zi, it is a type of clam or oyster. Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao): The rock barnacle resembles a crab claw, and its color is purple. Sometimes also written in a variant form. Guo Pu, Rhapsody on the Yangtze (Jiang Fu): The rock responds to the season and blooms. Commentary: Records of the Southern Yue (Nanyue Zhi) state: The rock barnacle is shaped like a tortoise foot; when it receives spring rain, it grows flowers, and the flowers resemble those of plants. Wang Wei poem: Passing through the rock barnacles in spring.