Ganzhou (虔), pinyin: qián, short for Ganzhou City in Jiangxi Province. In ancient times, Ganzhou was first known as Pious Zhou, and during the Song Dynasty, Pious Zhou was renamed Ganzhou, from which the abbreviation Ganzhou was derived.

Detailed Character Meanings

I, Form

1, Congruent. From 虍, 文声. 虍 ( hū ), tiger's head. Original meaning: the appearance of a tiger walking.

2, the same as the original meaning. Derived from brave, strong [gallant].

3. sincere and respectful; sincere [pious; sincere].

Aunt Xue laughed, "Indeed, counting my filial piety as pious." -- A Dream of Red Mansions

4. Another example: pious thanks (sincerely thankful); pious earnestness (sincerely praying); pious cleanliness (honest and pure); pious solemnity (honest and serious); pious respect (sincere).

Second, move

5, pious woman, the ancient Chinese brothel bustard, that is, "momsheng". "Pious woman" of the word "pious" in ancient times have the meaning of forcible solicitation, and the bustard forcing young prostitutes to take customers, from them to force money, so people will send the bustard a "pious woman" title. The first is that the woman is not a woman, but a woman who is a woman.

Expanded:

City abbreviation

Ganzhou City is located in the upper reaches of the Gan River, in the south of Jiangxi Province, and is a national historical and cultural city. Abbreviation Gan or Pious (in order to distinguish from the abbreviation of Jiangxi Province, now more abbreviated Pious), east of Sanming City, Fujian Province and Longyan City, south of Meizhou City, Guangdong Province, Heyuan City and Shaoguan City, west of Chenzhou City, Hunan Province, north of Jiangxi Province, Ji'an, Fuzhou, two areas. It is in the transition zone extending from the southeastern coastal area to the central interior of China, and is also one of the important corridors leading from the interior to the southeastern coast.

Ganzhou is abbreviated as Piety.

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