Megan Ling lives in the Chaoyang Social Welfare Institute. My friends, Stacey and John, who are also adopting Sofia Bao, from Chaoyang, shared the following information from Wikipedia.
The name "Chaoyang" comes from a poem in one of the oldest collections of Chinese poetry. The poem found in the famous Shijing goes,
"A wutong tree grew on a mountain. A fenghuang bird perched at the top and sang towards the morning sun."
In the eastern part of Chaoyang, there is a mountain that has been called Fenghuang Mountain since old times. In 1778, this mountain was connected with the poem from the Shijing and Chaoyang was given its current name.
The tree in the poem is a Chinese Parasol tree. John says they're very large trees with big leaves...12 inches across! The bird is mythical, like a Phoenix.
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