一切經音義 56.35

56.35

Flying and falling (蜚墮: ancient texts often write fēi (飛) as 蜚; both are fǔ + wéi fanqie; when birds fly it is called fēi (飛); it means flying upward; note that the Han commentary says: "In the first month, sparrows larger than turtledoves and bearing five colors flew past Zheng, and after the second month flew past Chiyang", which illustrates this).