Baby Panda a Father-in-Law

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Baby Panda a Father-in-Law

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National Zoo's panda is not even a year old, but he is already a father-in-law. His name, Tai Shan, has a number of meanings, and one is the address for one's wife's father.

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Tai Shan

National Zoo's Baby Panda Named Tai Shan

The National Zoo's panda is not even a year old, but he is already a father-in-law. His name, Tai Shan, has a number of meanings, and one is the address for one's wife's father.

Tai Shan is used to refer to Mount Tai, a mountain in Shandong Province. The prime minister Zhang Shui began the practice of having the new ruler, upon becoming emperor, ascend the mountain to offer sacrifices. When the prime minister's son-in-law rose politically, others scoffed that the emperor promoted him only because of Zhang Shui's institution of the ritual on Tai Shan. Thus taishan became a derisive term for father-in-law.

Maybe the zookeepers had something else in mind for the baby panda. Tai Shan is also the transliteration for the name Tarzan.

Tai Shan is also the name of Good Characters' president Andy Chuang's home town in Taipei Taiwan.

October 2005