Study Of Chinese Place Names And Cultural Relations

Geographical name is a culture phenomenon. It is one of importantresearches to probe into geographical name and culture in cultural linguistics.In this thesis, the relationship between geographical name and culture is to betried to elucidate from a great deal of correlative data that have beencollected and summed up. Therefore, the property of culture and civilizationof geographical name has been analyzed, and the way of naming a placeconcluded. At the same time, the rule of development and evolution ofgeographical name and the causes of the change of geographical name havebeen discussed. Based on these, the culture connotation of geographical namehas been revealed from different sides such as geographical name and socialpsychology, it and immigration, it and the economic activities and it andmilitary activities in old times. At last, the existing problem is been pointedout according to the demand of standardizing the geographical name. So theconclusion is attained that geographical name has close connection withculture and is one of parts that constitute culture, and a means of inheritingculture. On the other hand, geographical name is certainly been influencedand restrained by culture.