Chou Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Earth (tǔ) Tang Kangxi strokes: 13 Page 235, Entry 22 Guangyun (Broad Rhymes), Jiyun (Standard Rhymes), Yunhui (Collection of Rhymes), Zhengyun (Correct Rhymes): Pronounced tang. An embankment or levee. Building earth to obstruct water is called a tang. Annals of Wu and Yue (Wuyue Chunqiu): When Fuchai was east of Gusu Terrace, there was a ten-thousand-acre Dan Lake, and within the lake there were gold and silver tang. Qiantang Records (Qiantang Zhi): Cao Huaxin built a seawall to protect against the sea, recruiting workers for earth and stone with a pay of one thousand coins per hu. People came in crowds like clouds. Later, he announced that no more earth was needed. People abandoned the earth and stone and departed. Once the tang was completed, it was named Qiantang for this reason. There is also Qutang, located east of Kuizhou. Survey of Geography (Fangyu Shenglan): Qutang is the ancient Xiling Gorge, which is the gateway to the Three Gorges. Poem by Du Fu: Many streams gather amidst ten thousand mountains, and Qutang is the first gateway of the Three Gorges. It is also written as tang.