一切經音義 4.161

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孔雀 (Peacock: The fanqie 即藥 [què]. The Chunqiu yuanmingbao says: "The Fire trigram of Li constitutes the peacock." It also says: "The country of Jibin has many peacocks; they do not necessarily mate physically, but conceive merely through the exchange of cries and shadows, or upon hearing the sound of thunder").