How to pronounce Mao
Mao is pronounced as mǎo.
Mao, the second-level Chinese character, pronounced as mǎo, refers to the top of a hill, which refers to a loess hill with a rounded top and steep slope. Radical: mountain. The total number of strokes is 8. Stroke sequence: vertical, vertical fold/vertical bend, vertical, skim, vertical lift, skim, horizontal fold hook, vertical. Definition: A type of loess hill in northwest China. The top is gentle and the slope is steep. Group word: Shanmao (shān mǎo), dialect; a small hill with a dome.
Basic meaning: Mao mǎo. The top of a hill refers to a loess hill with a rounded top and steep slope. Xiaoshanbao refers to loess hills with round tops and steep slopes in northwest China. For example: I went down a slope and then went up a hill. Mao mǎo, a rare surname nowadays. It is distributed in Linfen, Shanxi today. Collected in "Shanxi Population Surname Encyclopedia". (Note: The top of the hill is Mao, and place names are often used in the northwest region because the place is the surname.)
Yaomao Village, Qiangtou Township, is located 50 kilometers northeast of Fugu County, with a total area of about 12 square kilometers. . There are more than 1,500 people in the village. Yaomao has a large population, a large area and many surnames. It is the largest village in Fugu County. The Yellow River turned a big bend when it passed Yaomao Shiyaobo. After erosion and sedimentation, it formed a strip of land about ten miles long from Shiyaobo to Banchuan and more than 3,000 acres of fertile riverbank land. For thousands of years, the rolling Yellow River has been like a jade belt surrounding the village. The land is flat, the land is rich and the people are abundant, nourishing the people. It is a geomantic treasure land, known as the Little Jiangnan on the Fortress.
The origin of the name of Yaomao Village in Qiangtou
There are three theories about the origin of the name of Yaomao Village. In the 48th year of Emperor Qianlong's reign in the Qing Dynasty, the Fugu County Chronicle records that Fengjiahui was four miles away and Yao Mao was five miles away, where the Yellow River made a small turn to the north. The ancients dug cave dwellings to live in the mountain ridges and named them Yaomao. Another kind of legend, as the name suggests, should be related to Yao in history. According to legend, Yao's master and his servant traveled west to inspect the sufferings of the people in the world and control the flooding of the Yellow River. One day when they passed by this place, it was already dusk. In order not to disturb the people, Yao stayed quietly. Yao could not rest and it was not dawn. Just left quietly.
The third rumor is that in times of war and chaos, generals were afraid of place names. The villagers told them that this was Shijiagou. The military leader asked again what village was further ahead. The villagers told him that it was Yaomin Village. The military leader mistakenly heard that Yaomin was dying. The military leader thought that this was Shijiagou. Going forward would be fatal to the village. Feeling that it was unlucky and unfavorable to start the army, he ordered the troops to turn around and return to the original route, thus saving the village from the suffering of war. Later generations gradually heard that the homophony of Yao Min and Hao Ming was not pleasant, so it was later renamed Yaomao.