Tzu-yang
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See also: Tzŭ-yang
English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Mandarin 資陽／资阳 (Zīyáng) Wade–Giles romanization: Tzŭ¹-yang².
Proper noun[edit]
Tzu-yang
- Alternative form of Ziyang, Sichuan
- 1977, William Jerald Kennedy, Adventures in Anthropology[1], West Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 274:
- The three southern fossils were in various stages of development, with Liu-chiang Man from Kwangsi as the oldest, followed by Tzu-yang Man from Szechwan (cf. 2, 57-58) and Lai-pin Man also from Kwangsi in chronological order.[...]The Tzu-yang Man is represented by a very complete skull which bears some resemblance to Homo erectus on the one hand and Homo sapiens on the other, forming a link between the two widely different stages of Chou-k'ou-tien.[...]Pebble and flake chopping-tools were used and occasionally, as at Tzu-yang, a triangular bone splint was scraped into a point which became blunt and polished through long usage.
- 1979, Peter Bellwood, Man's Conquest of the Pacific[2], New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 44:
- He further claimed to be able to trace Mongoloid evolution from Peking Man through a series of Chinese Middle and Upper Pleistocene fossils, including the early sapiens forms of Mongoloid type represented by the Upper Pleistocene skulls from Tzu-yang, Szechwan, and Liu-chiang, Kwangsi⁸⁴.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Tzu-yang.
Translations[edit]
Ziyang — see Ziyang
Etymology 2[edit]
From Mandarin 紫陽／紫阳 (Zǐyáng) Wade–Giles romanization: Tzŭ³-yang².
Proper noun[edit]
Tzu-yang
- Alternative form of Ziyang, Shaanxi
- 1974, Ray Huang, Taxation and Governmental Finance in Sixteenth-Century Ming China[3], Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 155:
- An extreme example is provided by Tzu-yang county, in Shensi, one of the poorest regions, the annual tax return of which was 341 piculs of grain, less than one-thousandth of Shanghai's.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Tzu-yang.
Translations[edit]
Ziyang — see Ziyang
Further reading[edit]
- Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Tzeyang or Tzu-yang”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World[4], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1971, column 3