Landscape of Direction-based Geographic Names and Residents'Sense of Belongings
ZHAGN Wei-jia
Abstract：The direction-based geographic name of Jiujiang in Nanhai is embedded with the sense of be-longings of Jiujiang people .It was first born in Ming Dynasty ,when JiuJiang won the monopoly of fish fries and was known as a cradle of great scholars .It peaked in 1920s-1930s ,when Jiujiang became a city under province (in 1926 to 1928) and under county (1928 to 1936) .To study the relationship between direction-based geographic names in JiuJiang and the sense of belongings of its citizens ,it is not difficult to understand that :first ,the geographic names reflect people's mental reality ;second ,there is an inter-active relationship between the geographic names & people's mental reality ;third ,geographic names contain abundant information on local & residential cultural ,just like living fossil .
Keywords：Jiujiang in Nanhandirection-based geographic namessense of belongings
Publication Date：2014-03-02
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：5( 74-78 )