Meanings
Tzu-yang1
- alternativeAlternative form of Ziyang, Sichuan
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.
1979, Peter Bellwood, Man's Conquest of the Pacific, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 441 more example
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.
1977, William Jerald Kennedy, Adventures in Anthropology, West Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 274
Tzu-yang2
- alternativeAlternative form of Ziyang, Shaanxi
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.
1974, Ray Huang, Taxation and Governmental Finance in Sixteenth-Century Ming China, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 155
Origin
Tzu-yang · proper noun
- Mandarin資陽 /资阳
- EnglishTzu-yang
From Mandarin 資陽 /资阳 (Zīyáng) Wade–Giles romanization: Tzŭ¹-yang².
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- Mandarin紫陽 /紫阳
- EnglishTzu-yang
From Mandarin 紫陽 /紫阳 (Zǐyáng) Wade–Giles romanization: Tzŭ³-yang².
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