Hai Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Fish (yú) Character: Qing Kangxi Strokes: 19 Page 1472, Entry 03 Pronounced zheng. Cooking fish and frying meat is called qing. Also written as a variant form. Western Capital Miscellaneous Records (Xijing Zaji): Lou Hu frequented the gates of the Five Marquises. Every morning, the Five Marquises would gift him food. Lou Hu would combine all the gifted food to make qing; people of that era called it the Five Marquises Qing. In the General Rhymes (Guangyun), it is also written in a variant form. Pronounced qing. The name of a fish. It is blue-green in color and has an occipital bone. Orthography Compendium (Zhengzitong): Its shape is like a grass carp, blue-green in color; it is the black carp. Commonly called the black osprey, and people in the south use it to make pickled fish. Illustrated Pharmacopoeia (Bencao Tujing): The black carp was anciently written with the character qing, which is the so-called pickled fish of the Five Marquises. Zuo Si, Ode to the Capital of Wu (Wudu Fu): The hawksbill, the qing, and the crocodile. Commentary: The qing fish is produced in the commanderies of Jiaozhi and Hepu. Pronounced qing. The meaning is the same.