Place Names Cultural Landscape Research In Yanbian

Place name is one of the symbols of geography, which can be seen everywhere in our daily life. An annotation is a kind of cultural phenomenon, and is closely related to human history, language, customs and habits. For the convenience of cadastral management, modern geography gradually develops the cortical research of taxonomy. And we gradually establish a basic classification system of names, having also made a breakthrough in the distribution and evolution of place names. The Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, China’s largest Korean inhabited area, distributes Korean, Han, Man and many other ethnics. Geographical names of Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture research can help us identify the distribution and migration rules of different nationalities in the Yanbian area, which would offer some help for the settlement of the population problem of Yanbian area.In this thesis, I study the eight counties of Yanbian, and collect the place names from Kangxi years until liberation. Data is from the eight counties of Yanbian state, county gazetteer, statistical data and books related to some historical, cultural geography and historical geography, summarizing the Yanbian place names’formation mechanism, evolution process, as well as place names’temporal and spatial distribution characteristics, which increase the awareness and understanding of the state of Yanbian place names. Through this reaserch, I find that place names of Yanbian is mainly distributed from200-650m high side and0-400m distance from rivers. It’s stable, too. Besides, I find that the Korea place names of Yanbian are always in the countryside until the third times, in the fourth times they started entering the mainland. While only in the second times, the Han place names are from the mainland to the countryside.