Shen Collection, Lower Volume Radical: Insect (chóng) Kangxi Strokes: 12 Page 1082, Entry 20 Pronounced wang. Shuowen Jiezi (Shuowen): Refers to the wangliang (mountain spirit). Huainanzi (Huainanzi): The wangliang is shaped like a three-year-old child; it is reddish-black in color, has red eyes, long ears, and beautiful hair. Discourses of the States (Guoyu): The strange beings of wood and stone are called kui and wangliang. Commentary: The wangliang is a mountain spirit that likes to mimic human voices to bewilder people. Zhang Heng, Rhapsody on the Southern Capital (Nandufu): Pursuing the water leopard and whipping the wangliang. Commentary: The wangliang is a spirit of the mountains and rivers. Dictionary of Rhymes (Yunhui): The term wangliang is written as fangliang in the Rites of Zhou (Zhouli), as lang in the Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), and as liang in the Zuo Tradition (Zuo Zhuan). Six Categories of Writing Rectified (Liushu zheng'e): Also written in a variant form (liang).