Why are elephants called elephants?

The reason why "Xiang" is called "Xiang" is the evolution of hieroglyphics.

"Elephant" is a hieroglyph. The earliest word "elephant" is a stick figure of an animal elephant. Later, after many times of text simplification, it became the current writing method. "Da" became the name of the animal elephant, because it was large and easy to read. With the continuous evolution of fonts, it has been handed down.

In the traditional culture of China, because the word "elephant" is homophonic with the word "auspicious", elephants are endowed with more auspicious meanings, and many mascots are designed accordingly, such as the image of peace, auspiciousness and Vientiane renewal.

The origin of elephants:

Asian elephants originated in the Indian Peninsula and Southeast Asia, and African elephants originated in sub-Saharan Africa. Modern elephants began with mastodons 36 million years ago, also known as emerging elephants. They have evolved stout bodies, columnar limbs and relatively developed noses. It is generally believed that mastodons may be more closely related to modern elephants.

In zoological classification, elephants belong to the order proboscis. Although there are only elephants in this project, there are only three kinds of elephants mentioned above, but from the fossil data that have been excavated, the evolution of the long nose is extremely prosperous in the history of biological evolution, and there are at least 180 species of fossils alone.