Ningxia Place Names In The Study Of Cultural Linguist

The historical status of Ningxia went without saying. You can find it in every aspect of Chinese history, including military, racial, culture, etc. Military affair, Ningxia was always a crucial border town, with a lot of remnants of battles. Racial, Ningxia was a place that many nations lives together. Nations conflicted, communicated and assimilated with each other continually here, and gradually formed a national culture of personality. Cultural, Ningxia was the intersection of agricultural culture of central plains and the nomadic culture from the north of the Great Wall. Every culture can find some similarities with itself from the culture here. In linguistics, the geographical names in Ningxia have a variety of origin and different route of evolution. So the charm is also unique. It will be significant to parse Ningxia toponym from the view of cultural linguistics and dissect the origin and changing process of place names, then we can dissect the cultural connotation of Ningxia.Firstly, we did a layman analysis of place names and the concept of place names culture, describing the significance of our subject and the research methods used during our researching process. Secondly, a general introduction to the toponym and cultural background of Ningxia was given. Thirdly, the toponym was divided into3groups as natural elements toponym, cultural elements toponym, sound turned and meaning transferred toponym.