Seeking The Change Of Urban Culture From The Place-Name In Changsha

Changsha have a long history, the old place names, the glorious culture,known as Famous City in Chuhan country, Xiaoxiangsizhu, the hometown of Qujia. The Changsha's location is superior, lying between Hunan province and Hubei province;natural environment resources is abundant ,getting close to the river of Xiangjiang and five rivers passing in Changsha;Changsha closes to lakes and rivers,so the transportation is convenient. Since Qin and Han Dynasty,Changsha is the first important city. During the long years of vicissitudes Changsha formed a strong political and military overtones urban culture.The culture is the essence of the city.Although the ancient city of Changsha has swallowed vicissitudes and general also has been completely transformed, we can grasp the cultural development track of Changsha city history from the ancient names with deep cultural atmosphere. To retain historical Wenmai Changsha city and find the names and cultural integration point, the paper attempts to trail and discover Changsha city cultural situation changes to point to the survey of place-name in Changsha.This text is divided into two parts totally:Part I provides an overview of the basic concepts of names and research significance and focuses on the type of modern Changsha names, types and profound cultural connotations. Place-name,in essence, is a kind of cultural phenomenon;For its functions, is the geographical location of the symbols. However it is not a general sense of symbols, it is the carrier of national culture.The place name assigns always have unusual origin and meaning as the place-name closely related to the general historical background, geographical conditions, social life, and the place-name is a region, a cultural origins and is alse the true record of social development. Through the research of the place-name we can understand the track Chinese urban development, and explore the sources of city folk customs, thereby understand the local characteristics ofurban culture.Changsha names is quite distinctive, The classification of the modern Changsha place-names roughly divided into geographical names, monuments, historical names, such as local names several categories, thus exploring Changsha place-names rich cultural connotations.Part II is the focus of the article, Changsha names primarily from the perspective of modern Changsha Tanxi geographic ecological culture, planning the construction of cultural, and economic, cultural, military, cultural, political and religious culture of social consciousness and cultural history of change. Get a conclusion : The place name is the body of carrying culture, The culture is the soul of the city, destroying the place name is to destroy the history, that is to say , to annihilate the city culture. To find names and contacts of urban culture, history and culture so as to protect and modern Changsha names submitted indicative planning advice.