續一切經音義 4.71

4.71

Greenbottle flies (qingying 青蠅: the second character has the fanqie [reading] yu + ling [ying]. The Kaosheng states: "A flying insect." Zheng [Xuan's] commentary on the Mao Commentary on the Classic of Poetry states: "The fly, as an insect, defiles white color and turns it black, metaphorically representing how sycophants distort and throw into chaos good and evil." It also states: "A flaw in a white jade tablet can still be polished away; a flaw in these words can never be undone").