一切經音義 97.189

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為蛤（甘合反禮記云季秋雀入大水為蛤說文蛤有三皆生海海蛤者百歲鷰所化也一名蒲螺老服翼所化也蛤蠣者千歲鴽所化也從虫合聲集云雉化為蛤用事誤）。

Turn into clams 為蛤 (fanqie: 甘合 [gé]). The Liji says: 'In late autumn, sparrows enter the great waters and become clams.' The Shuowen jiezi says: 'There are three kinds of ge (clam), all produced in the sea. The haige (sea clam) is what a hundred-year-old swallow transforms into; another kind is the puluo, which an old bat transforms into; the geli is what a thousand-year-old quail transforms into.' It takes 虫 ('insect/creature') as semantic and 合 as phonetic. The edition under collation says pheasants transform into clams, which is an erroneous allusion.