濮阳 (Púyáng): Puyang (prefecture-level city in Henan province)

Meanings

1 Puyang (prefecture-level city in Henan province)

Characters

濮

pú

(name of an ancient river in Henan)

阳

yáng

sun; north bank (of a river)

Examples

濮阳被誉为中华龙乡。

Púyáng bèi yùwéi Zhōnghuá lóng xiāng.

Puyang is known as 'the hometown of the Chinese dragon'.

他老家在河南濮阳。

Tā lǎojiā zài Hénán Púyáng.

His hometown is in Puyang, Henan.

Tips

history

In 1987, a 6,500-year-old grave at Puyang's Xishuipo (西水坡) site was found containing the oldest known Chinese dragon image — a clam-shell mosaic of a dragon and a tiger flanking a human skeleton. Because of this, Puyang is officially branded 中华龙乡 ('the cradle of the Chinese dragon').

usage

The name 濮阳 comes from its historical location — 阳 here means the north bank of the Pu River (濮水), following the classical geographic rule 山南水北为阳 ('south of a mountain, north of a river is yang').