Territorial Feature of Placename Culture
——Taking placename culture of Yining City as an example
Since ancient times, Xinjiang has been a multinational region, where different nationalities have populated. The nationalities have kept their own tradition and culture, speaking different languages, which makes one place polyonymous.
To know well a place, we should begin with its name. Placename is a mirror of ethno-culture, through which we can become conscious of life-customs and ethno-belief of different nationalities. A placename is a regional identifier, which reflects its local conditions and customs and its history culture to a certain extent.
Although it has a long history to study place names in our country, we cannot say that toponymy has been mature. Most of people don’t know very well about it. There are millions of place names at ancient and modern time in our country and all of them are full of civilization contents. As long as we can make an exploration and research seriously, we can find different regional culture feature and historical culture element judging from the place names in different regions.
From xinjiang is the national activities of the region, many people are migrating to come here and here and increase. different nations have their own language, the development of character. all ethnic groups have access to the national languages freely, so there is one of the same area, all ethnic groups have different way. different nationalities have different kinds of folk culture and habits.
Know a place, the first is the geographical names from the start of the national culture. it is true, the name of the people can often see different ethnic groups of customs and beliefs. the name is a place to identify in certain extent reflects the place of historical culture.
Name of the research in our country while a long history, but still cannot be said 名学 is ripe. many people don't know and understand. in our country in a few of the ancient name of the contents. if he earnestly to explore and study from different region of the places, we can see different areas of culture and historical cultural elements in this respect. this is an attempt to.