Shen Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Insect (chóng) Hedgehog Kangxi Strokes: 15 Page 715, Entry 06 Pronounced wèi. Jade Chapters (Yupian): An insect, similar to a porcupine but smaller. Rhyme Compilation (Yunhui): Also written in the variant form (huì). Explication of Animals (Shijing - Erya): The hui, having bristly fur. Commentary: This refers to the hedgehog. Lu Dian states: It can be used to treat stomach ailments. Zhiguzi states: When the tips of the bristles are split into two branches, it is a hedgehog; when they are like thorny needles, it is also a hedgehog. The hedgehog resembles a rat, by nature ferocious and slow; if any creature approaches it, its bristles stand up like arrows. Biography of Jia Yi in the History of the Former Han (Qian Hanshu): The rebels rose up like the bristles of a hedgehog. Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Treatise on Tortoise Divination: The hedgehog is humiliated by the magpie. Commentary: Continued Records of Broad Knowledge (Xu Bowuzhi) states: The hedgehog can jump into a tiger's ear; when it sees a magpie, it exposes its belly to be pecked. Jiao Gan's Forest of Changes (Yilin): A hungry tiger wanting to eat sees a hedgehog and crouches down. Miscellaneous Records of the Western Capital (Xijing Zaji): In the second year of the Yuanfeng era, there was a great cold; cows and horses all curled up like hedgehogs. Also a mountain name. Gazetteer of Huayang (Huayang Guozhi): In Dianchi there is White Hedgehog Mountain; the mountain has no stones, only hedgehogs. Sometimes also written in the variant form (wèi). Zhang Heng, Rhapsody on the Eastern Capital (Dongjing Fu): Stretching out the hedgehog. Rhyme Compilation (Yunhui): Also written in a variant form.