An official account renders Puzhehei as a Yi-language name meaning a lake filled with fish and shrimp. The gloss brings water and food together in a few words. It is an attributed explanation, carried in a scenic-area account rather than presented as a full linguistic history.
The scenic-area account places the name in Qiubei County’s landscape, where 54 connected lakes, 312 karst peaks and 83 caves form the terrain, and names Xianrendong among the Yi villages. The official gloss of fish and shrimp can be read beside this inhabited, water-filled basin.
