Zhubie Fish

Pearl-Bearing Six-Legged Fish

Odd six-legged fish that bears pearls; eating it was said to prevent disease.

The Zhubie fish of Huai Marsh has a body like a lung, eyes upon it, six feet, and a pearl inside. Its flesh was said to prevent disease. A fish that carries its pearl beneath six limbs turns the marsh itself into a treasury of the text’s oddest remedies.