Flying Fish of the Ji River 濟水魚飛

壬寅歲，濟源水中魚飛起，鳥鵲啄食之而墮，人取食無他異。甲辰冬，安賢鎮西南之馬陵，平旦無風雲，忽空中墮魚七八頭，不知所來，又比濟源者差小。陶朱種魚法，池中著鼈，不爾則飛去。

In the year renyin fish took wing from the waters at the head of the Ji River. Magpies ate them but then fell out of the sky, and people gathered and devoured them [fish and birds] without distinction. In the winter of the jiachen year, at Horse Hill to the southwest of Anxian Town, on a calm and cloudless dawn, seven or eight fish suddenly fell from the sky, their origins unknown, and not much smaller than those from the Ji. Tao Zhu’s method of breeding fish involves placing a soft-shelled turtle in the pool, and then [the fish] do not fly away like this.

Yuan Haowen 元好問, ‘Xu Yijian Zhi 續夷堅志 (Supplement to the Records of Yijian)’, ed. by Chang Zhenguo 常振國 in Xu Yijian Zhi / Hu Hai Xinwen Yijian Xu Zhi 續夷堅志 / 湖海新聞夷堅續志 (Selections from Supplement to the Records of Yijian and News of the Lakes and Seas Supplement to Records of Yijian), ed. by Chang Zhenguo 常振國 and Jin Xindian 金心點 (Beijing: Zhonghua Shuju, 1986), juan 2, p. 25.