Hai Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Bird (niǎo) Character: Yi Kangxi stroke count: 21 Page 1498, Entry 10 Guangyun: Pronounced li (falling tone) Jiyun, Yunhui: Pronounced ni (falling tone); sounds the same as ni (falling tone). Yupian: The same as yi and yi. Piya: Yi is the ribbon bird. The ribbon bird is about the size of a crested myna, with a head like a pheasant. Sometimes it spits out something several inches long. When it eats, it must store the food in its crop. The crop on its chest is as large as a peck measure. Gujinzhu: The ribbon-spitting bird is also called gongcao, commonly known today as the brocade pouch. It is also called pizhu. When it walks, it always keeps away from grasses and trees for fear of snagging its crop. Yunhui: Also known as the guinea fowl, which has pearl-like spotted patterns on its body. Li Shizhen said: The ribbon-spitting chicken has a crop on its neck containing a fleshy ribbon. It is not visible at ordinary times. During the Qingming festival in spring and summer, it will spread it out toward the sun. Two emerald green horns about two inches long first extend from the top of its head, and then it slowly unfolds the ribbon under its neck, which is nearly a foot long and wide, with brilliant and splendid colors. After a while, it retracts it completely. Some people have dissected it and seen nothing inside. It is also the name of a type of grass. Book of Odes (Shijing): In the center of the Tang there is the pi, and in the Qiong there is the delicious yi. Erya, Explaining Grasses: Written as yi-shou (a type of variegated grass). Guo Commentary: A type of small grass with variegated colors, resembling a ribbon.