 to starve" Liang & Chang (1971) "to avoid eating cereals in order to obtain immortality" Lin (1972) "stop even vegetarian food, as a way of becoming Taoist immortal" DeFrancis (2003) "avoid eating cereals in order to gain immortality" Kleeman & Yu (2010) "refuse to eat grain" Catherine Despeux (2008:233) lists synonyms for bigu "abstention from cereals": duangu "stopping cereals" (with duan "cut off;
<coherence>  to starve" Liang & Chang (1971) "to avoid eating cereals in order to obtain immortality" Lin (1972) "stop even vegetarian food, as a way of becoming Taoist immortal" DeFrancis (2003) "avoid eating cereals in order to gain immortality" Kleeman & Yu (2010) "refuse to eat grain" Catherine Despeux (2008:233) lists synonyms for bigu "abstention from cereals": duangu "stopping cereals" (with duan "cut off;
 to starve" Liang & Chang (1971) "to avoid eating cereals in order to obtain immortality" Lin (1972) "stop even vegetarian food, as a way of becoming Taoist immortal" DeFrancis (2003) "avoid eating cereals in order to gain immortality" Kleeman & Yu (2010) "refuse to eat grain" Catherine Despeux lists synonyms for bigu "abstention from cereals": duangu "stopping cereals" (with duan "cut off;