Zhuanglang place name census

In December 1981, the county established a leading group for the census of place names and set up an office. I, seven other staff members and two photography enthusiasts were assigned to work in four groups throughout the country. A census of place names is carried out within the county according to its respective divided areas.

At that time, the commune had not yet been transformed into a township, and the brigade had not yet been transformed into a village. We mainly investigated five aspects of the situation in each commune. First, the origin of the name of the commune, changes in administrative divisions, the number of brigades, production teams, and natural villages, the total number of households and actual population, and the proportion of agricultural and non-agricultural populations and ethnic minorities. The second is the geographical location and boundaries of the public area, the trend of mountains and rivers, topography, soil quality, climate conditions, rainfall distribution and natural disasters, etc.; the third is the area of ??cultivated land, planted food crops and oil crops, yield per mu, and total output, The construction of terraces, the amount of farm machinery and equipment, the amount of forage planting and livestock raising, etc.; the fourth is the farmer's market where the commune is located, the sales of agricultural tools, mountain products, and grain; the fifth is the establishment of enterprises, cultural facilities, health center construction, radio stations, and transportation trunks roads, school distribution and cultural heritage sites within the territory, etc. Among them, we adopted data from annual statistical reports for cultivated land area, population and grain production, while cultural sites are mainly based on the archaeological naming of county museums.

The census of place names of production brigades is basically consistent with that of communes. First, the origin of the name of the brigade, the area of ??cultivated land, the construction of terraces, the total number of households and population, the establishment of production brigades and the number and distribution of natural villages; The second is the number of clinics, primary schools and teachers in the brigade; the third is the number of trucks and walking tractors owned by the brigade, the harvest and living conditions of the masses, etc.

We attach great importance to the census of natural villages. Regardless of their size, we insist on repeated visits and surveys to villages ranging from dozens to thousands of people until the origin of the village name is approved. Local ancient ruins, reservoirs, dams, bridges, roads, rivers, mountains, beams, ditches, gorges, mountain passes, rivers, flats, lakes, springs, land parcels and other natural and built entities were also verified and registered one by one.

During the census process, there were two interesting things that remain fresh in my memory. One thing is that not long after the census work was launched, it was winter when dripping water turned into ice. The snow was extremely thick, making it more difficult to walk on the narrow paths between villages. There were no telephones at that time, and every household had a radio, so if you announced something, the whole commune would hear it. When our team finished the investigation in one village and was about to go to the next village, the radio in the countryside suddenly called my team leader to say back. The unit had something important to do, so the team leader walked back to the unit with a wooden stick and walked through the thick snow, leaving me alone to go to another village one step at a time, one step at a time. After dinner, the captain arranged for me to stay in a new courtyard with only one hut. The heated kang in the room was damp, with a layer of wheat clothes sprinkled on the surface, and moisture evaporated from the fire would rise up from time to time. The captain put a new bamboo mat on the kang, brought a quilt from somewhere and threw it down, and arranged for me to rest. As a result, I wandered around the ground of the hut all night. After dawn, I walked through the slush to other villages without saying hello to anyone. The captain thought that my census of place names was not important. In fact, the use of place names involves military, diplomacy, press, publishing, post and telecommunications, transportation, surveying and mapping, culture and education, etc. Therefore, it is very necessary and important to conduct a census of place names. After standardization and standardization, If a place name needs to be changed or supplemented due to special reasons, it must be reported step by step and approval procedures can be completed before it can be used. There was another thing that made me feel warm in my heart. That was when I was investigating in Nanhu Shuangbao Village, the team leader arranged for me to live in a house where the yard and the house were clean and tidy. There was an old man wearing a pair of stones. Shui Jing had a kind face and a long beard that was completely white. He was wearing a clean and well-fitting blue top and green trousers. He was calm and steady in his conversation. He sat on the kang and let me sit next to him and chatted all afternoon. For dinner, I had diagonal arrowheads made of white noodles. The soup was topped with fried green onions, a plate of salted carrots and a plate of eggplant. It was very delicious. When sleeping, the old man took out an unused quilt from the closet and spread it on the kang. The new white sheets and the new quilt made of pure cotton could make a deep nest when sitting on it. At night, a big black dog raised by the family escapes and wanders around the courtyard, which makes people feel very at ease and warm. I was deeply moved by their honest, simple and hospitable family style.

After our in-depth and detailed investigation and verification of various literature materials, the origin, meaning and historical evolution of the county's place names have been clarified. According to statistics, at that time, the government included 2,321 standard place names in the county. Including one county name, 22 commune names, one residents' committee, 26 enterprises and institutions, 422 production brigades, 1,501 natural villages, 31 and ten villages Two alleys, three streets, three section roads, eleven highways, thirty-three historical sites, eleven dams, bridges, and warehouses, fourteen rivers, eighty-nine mountains, twenty-eight beams, eight There are mountain passes, eighty-six ditches, nine gorges, four patches of land, two flats, two rivers, one lake and one spring. After verifying that the information is true and reliable, these materials are marked with geographical locations by category, standard pinyin and Chinese characters are added, and file cards and place name business cards are created. After that, he compiled 29 written materials on counties and communes, drew 24 maps, and attached 22 photos. Finally, Zhuang Lang was formed in four recording forms: pictures, texts, cards, and tables. Reference material for place name prototypes.

The vigorous development of the census of place names benefits from the great attention and support of the county government. In the process of our investigation and data compilation, the person in charge of the Geographical Names Office carefully organized, personally compiled, conducted field research, and reviewed each item. All the staff of the Census Office and photography enthusiasts have always persisted and worked hard, overcoming numerous difficulties and doing a lot of hard and meticulous work. After acceptance by the regional and provincial leading groups, we reviewed the survey data several times, and finally compiled and published the book "Zhuanglang County Place Name Data Collection", completing the important task of the census, which lasted two years and ten months. The census of place names was successfully concluded.

Time flies, and more than thirty years have passed since the census of place names was carried out. At the end of the article, I felt happy reliving my memories. Here, I would like to excerpt some place names for sharing.

Zhuanglang: In 1227 AD, Taizu Temujin of the Yuan Dynasty captured the Zhuanglang and Longde areas to escape the summer heat at Liupan Mountain (according to legend, it was in Liangdian Gorge in the Guanshan forest area), and he built a village around this time. Langlu, died in Qingshui in the same year. The name Zhuang Lang may be related to the Zhuang Lang tribe of the Dangxiang tribe in the northern part of the Yellow River during the Northern Song Dynasty.

Shuiluo City: Located in the triangle area between the south and north Shuiluo River, it is named after water. It was an important military town in Tonglongyou, Guanzhong in ancient times. It has been recorded in historical records in the seventh year of Yixi in the Eastern Jin Dynasty (411 AD), and it is the earliest place name in Zhuanglang. It was expanded by General Liu Hu in the third year of Qingli in the Song Dynasty (AD 1043). It is the hometown of Wu Jie and Wu Lin, the famous generals of the Southern Song Dynasty.

Jiacheng Lane: According to legend, it is the seat of Liu Hu’s family.

The second-bedroom Li family: When the brothers surnamed Li split up, the eldest brother had the first bedroom and the second-youngest son had the second bedroom.

Pan'an: In 1929, when Cha'er Lijia established the market, it named the town "Pan'an", which means "safe as a rock", and later evolved into Pan'an.

Wanggong Village: According to legend, in the early Hongwu years of the Ming Dynasty, there were four brothers on the oil slope of Hubokou, Fengxiang, Shaanxi, namely Wang Gong, Wang Hao, Wang Qu, and Wang Fu. In order to escape the military famine, they moved here and named them after them. .

Ma Zhang Pass: According to legend, there was an official named Ma in this village, who was known as "Mr. Ma", and later evolved into Ma Zhang Pass.

Wang Huoyanzi: It is said that two brothers, Wang Huo and Wang Yan, lived here a long time ago, hence the name.

To hold the god: Legend has it that due to frequent hailstorms in the area, people built a stone man on the top of the beam. After a lightning strike, the stone man held the lightning like a rope, so it was called "the rope", and later evolved into Thanks to God.

Jie Cliff: There is an east-west mountain range in the area that is crossed by the north-south Dapaoerzui Mountain, forming a horizontal cliff, so it is called Jie Cliff.

Rain-testing Wang Family: Legend has it that a god named Ji Ji took a rain gun and tested the rain here, so it is called the Rain-testing River. In the 16th year of Emperor Kangxi's reign in the Qing Dynasty, people surnamed Wang moved from Shuntian Prefecture in Zhili to live at the mouth of Shiyu River, hence the name Shiyu Wang's family.

Bai Lian Bay: meaning bare mountains and bare ridges.

Uiwo Road: This place once had a Uiwo (a kind of stone mortar), hence its name.

Sheer Bay: This place was named after the abundance of snakes.

Tongyang Family: According to legend, someone once did the bucket business, hence the name.

Tonghua: It means leading to Huaping (today’s Jingyuan County).

Liangyi: The original name "Liangye" means wild. Later, it was changed to "邑" because the word "wild" was uncommon.

Tongbian: Located at the west entrance of Anhua Gorge, it was the main road to Longxi in ancient times. In the eighth year of Qingli in Song Dynasty (AD 1048), Tongbian Village was established, which means leading to the border village.

Wang Gongzi’s Family: According to legend, it was named after the Wang family had Gong students.

Dragon Palm: The village is named because the village is located at the foot of the Hulu River in Miaolonggou. The two mountains in the north and south have stone protrusions facing each other, which look like a dragon playing in the water.

Youfuchuan: "Youfu" refers to people who sell oil in the old days.

Li Maoer: According to legend, there was a man named Li who made a living by selling hats, and later changed "hat" into "mao".

Black Chen Family: According to legend, there once lived a family with the surname Chen who had no household registration, hence the name.

The Xu Family of Public Security: According to the "grain distribution" in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it was called the Xu Family of Public Security, and later evolved into the Xu Family of Public Security.

Santai Mountain: According to legend, the heroine Liu Jinding of the Northern Song Dynasty and his subordinates camped here and built a gathering platform, a martial arts platform, and a fighting platform, hence the name.

Lin An's sentence: It was named after the two surnames Lin and An lived there.

Yangchuan: formerly known as "Yangsanchuan", named after "There are three rivers in Shanyang", it was later shortened to "Yangchuan".

Sanyi: During the cooperative period in 1955, the Sanyi Junior Cooperative was formed by Weijiagou, Chenjiayangpo, and Zhaojiayangdai, with the intention of taking the path of common prosperity.

Wanquan: It is named after a large water spring at Wanjiagou gate.

Sanhe: Named after the merger of three natural villages, Lijiazhuang, Xindianzi and Liujiaxinzhuang, to form an agricultural cooperative.

Qigu Mountain: According to legend, General Liu Hu, a famous general in the Song Dynasty, once stationed troops on this mountain, so it was named after its similar shape.

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