Xirang
MAGICAL SUBSTANCE IN CHINESE MYTHOLOGY
Xirang (), also known as hsi-jang, Swelling Earth, self-renewing soil, breathing earth, and living earth is a magical substance in Chinese mythology that had a self-expanding ability to continuously grow – which made it particularly effective for use by Gun and Yu the Great in fighting the rising waters of the Great Flood. 218 This Chinese word compounds xí "breathe; cease; rest; grow; multiply" and rǎng "soil; earth".