Where did the name of the giant panda come from?

The modern name of the giant panda (that is, the popular Chinese name in China) was originally named Panda or Giant Panda, which means that its face is as chubby as a cat, but its whole body is like a bear, and some even belong to Xiong Ke.

Before 195s, Chinese was written in a straight book, which was read from right to left, but changed to a horizontal book, which was left to right. When it was exhibited in Beibei Museum, Sichuan in 1939, it was explained that the title was a horizontal book, a famous panda. At that time, visitors were used to reading straight books from right to left and mistook it for a panda.

Since then, first in the hometown where it is mainly produced (Sichuan), it has been used to changing the name of panda to panda for a long time. Since then, its common Chinese name is Giant Panda, which has been recognized by people.

Its local names are mostly called White Bear or White Old Bear in its hometown, and some are called Flower Bear. In Minshan Tibetan area, it is called Dang or Du Dong Ga (G m 4), while Baima Dabu people in Pingwu are called Dong Ga; The Yi people in Liangshan are called Equ. Although the names of all these places are different, their meanings are the same as those of the brave and brave dogs in ancient books, which only show that their body color is white, black and white, or their body shape is like a bear.

Other aliases for giant pandas are Hua Xiong, Zhu Xiong, Silver Dog and Big Raccoon. Silver dog, this is because the local name and commodity name of the little panda is golden dog, and the corresponding panda is called silver dog because of its white body color. Bamboo bear is named after its main food is bamboo. Hua Xiong shows that it is a rare animal that is a specialty of the Chinese nation.

after the western world knew it, it was initially translated into "panda" or "panda", but another legend was accidentally reversed into "panda" when it was first published in the 2th century newspaper, which unexpectedly became a common name. If we follow these names as clues, we can trace back many magical records.

Extended information

The ancestor of the giant panda is Ailuaractos lufengensis, and the standard Chinese name of the giant panda is actually "panda", which means "bear like a cat". This is the earliest panda which is mainly carnivorous and evolved from bear-like animals.

The main branch of the Eocene panda continued to evolve in the central and southern parts of China. One of them appeared in the early Pleistocene about 3 million years ago, smaller than the panda. It was inferred from the teeth that it had evolved into an omnivore that ate bamboo, an egg-laying bear. Since then, this main branch has spread to the subtropical zone, and fossils have been found in North China, Northwest China, East China, Southwest China, South China, Vietnam and northern Myanmar. In this process, the giant panda adapted to the life of subtropical bamboo forest, and gradually grew in size and depended on bamboo for a living.

The giant panda reached its peak in the middle and late Pleistocene from 5, to 7, years ago. Giant pandas in life have well-developed molars, and their claws have a "thumb" in addition to five toes. This "thumb" is actually a specialized formation of a wrist bone, and its scientific name is "radial sesamoid bone", which mainly plays the role of holding bamboo.

Baidu encyclopedia-panda

Baidu encyclopedia-panda