Named Characteristics And Function Of Folk Place Names

The research object is village of Dong Huang community place names namingfeatures. Articles involved Village is a yellow field point Dong, Miao settlementsbelonging to the Southern District of Dong culture. Since occlusion traffic conditions,relatively intact, the local traditional culture of the Dong. Due to the unique culture ofDong Huang Village continue to be excavated use, how to protect local cultural heritageand is the subject of studies selected for this field points to answer that purpose. ByHuang Village fieldwork, tens of thousands of its administrative area focuses ongeographic names become object of this paper. Topics in data sources through the useof ethnographic field research, the use of questionnaires, interviews, household survey,record local customs, local place names collected data and test their content. Toponymiccombination of names in the traditional classification, as well as the distribution of theobjective situation of local place names, More than two hundred place names and thetext will be collected after finishing obtained expression into historical events, mythsand legends, economic ownership, description and use of natural resources, geographicvisualization, specializing names, environmental characteristics, and position indicationeight place names category. Through in-depth analysis of these eight categories ofnames, ultimately summarized in local place names: the use of historical memorynaming, describing the natural environment use patterns (in the natural environment asthe background), recording three credit-oriented naming features, and stressed that thesethree characteristics play an important role in naming incentive statute, inheritance andother operations in the local culture. In subsequent chapters discuss in class by morethan eight instances of place names, place names, and three local features, the use ofcultural functionalism ethnology, cultural ecology and cultural core, historicalparticularism, and institutional economics of property rights theory, Combined with theuse of specific examples of relevant local place names were names of local geographicnames, historical memory, adaptation to the environment, social cohesion and culturalincentives, economic resources and control functions to analyze research, and strive todeep yellow interior Village Place Names cultural structure, operation mechanism toseek local culture. In the end, the role of Huang Village by geographic features namedin the operation of the local culture, as well as feature articles in the local communitynames, elaborated in line with the principles of natural conditions, historical and culturaltraditions, social customs, rules of traditional place names, names reasonable naming animportant role in today’s society. Meanwhile, compared to Huang gang and Dongvillages in the local place names irreplaceable cultural heritage operational role in thecrisis and the gradual opening of the cultural heritage of the Village of Dong Huangfaced by the local culture is facing huge impact conclusions. End of the article called attention to the protection of local culture and heritage, try less destructive influence offoreign culture on the local unique culture system.