Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Puyang.
The state of Wei was a small state at that time. Its capital was P’u-yang (to the southwest of today’s P’u-yang in Honan), and its territory consisted only of the northeastern edge of today Honan Province and the northwestern edge of Shansi Province.
1977, Li Yu-ning, Shang Yang's Reforms and State Control in China, M. E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 201 more example
Among the recent excavations of Northern Ch’i dynasty tombs in which green-glazed wares were found, that of Li Yün at P’u-yang, Honan Province, datable in accordance with 576, yielded celadon-glazed jars with whitish bodies and rather distinctive decorations (Fig. 20).
1975, Suzanne G. Valenstein, “Six Dynasties”, in A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 37
Origin
- Mandarin濮陽 /濮阳
- EnglishP'u-yang
From Mandarin 濮陽 /濮阳 (Púyáng) Wade–Giles romanization: Pʻu²-yang².
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