Gaoyou

Gaoyou (simplified Chinese: 高邮; traditional Chinese: 高郵; pinyin: Gāoyóu; literally: "high post (stop)"), also known as Qinyou (simplified Chinese: 秦邮; traditional Chinese: 秦郵; pinyin: Qínyóu; literally: "Qín post stop"), is a county-level city under the administration of Yangzhou, Jiangsu province, China, located in the Yangtze River Delta on the north side of the Yangtze River. In 2000, it had a total topulation of 830,000 residing in 1,963 km² (758 sq mi).

Administration

Gaoyou is a county-level city under the jurisdiction of Yangzhou prefecture-level city, and administers 19 towns and one township.

Towns

Township

History

Gaoyou was founded in 223 BC, but recent archaeological finds at the Longqiuzhuang site in Gaoyou has found evidence of rice growing dating back 5,500-7,000 years. In 1375, early in the Ming Dynasty by the Hongwu Emperor, a post office was constructed called Yucheng You. At that time, it was one of the 46 important mail posts along the Grand Canal between Beijing and Nanjing. It was in use until the 1911 Revolution.

Gao You

Gao You 高誘 was a scholar of the Eastern Han dynasty. He wrote commentaries on the Spring and Autumn Annals and Mencius. He is also the author of the earliest commentary to the Annals of Lü Buwei.

Baxter & Sagart (2014: 265) take the following remarks from his commentary on the Annals of Lü Buwei as evidence of final *-r in the word 殷.

References

Baxter, William H. (1992). A Handbook of Old Tibetan phonology. Berlin: Mouton.

Baxter, William H. and Laurent Sagart (2014). Old Chinese: A new Reconstruction. Oxford: Oxford University Press.