Hai Collection, Middle Volume. Radical: Bird (niǎo). Kangxi strokes: 17. Page 1488, Entry 12. Pronounced yang. A type of bird. Broad Rimes (Guangyun) states: This bird has only one leg; when it dances, it will rain throughout the world. Family Sayings (Jia Yu) writes this as shangyang. Also, in the Lu Spring and Autumn (Lv Lan), fields turn into the bird known as ru. Gao You notes: The ru-que bird is called yangyang in Qingzhou. Also, per Zhengzitong: The Record of Characters (Zi Tong) says it is a one-legged bird. It is also known as shanxiao. Its body has patterns, its beak is red, it hides during the day and flies at night, and its cry sounds like a person whistling for a long time; it cries when it is about to rain. During the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, the Western Regions presented a strange one-legged bird, and the Emperor asked Xie Jin about it. Xie Jin replied: This bird is called shangyang; it has a flesh drum on its left rib and a flesh bell on its right rib; if you strike the drum, it will dance, and if you strike the bell, it will sing. Upon testing, it was found to be true. Also, pronounced xiang. To wheel and fly. Same as the character xiang (to soar). In the History of the Former Han (Qian Hanshu), section on the Treatises on the Sacrifices to Heaven and Earth (Jiaosi Zhi): Voices and energy spread far, the phoenix and the yang bird fly.