明清时期广东西江走廊聚落地名特征分析

Research into the Characteristics of Place Names of Villages in the West River Corridor Strip of Guangdong Province during the Ming and Qing Periods

聚落地名反映了人类社会在变迁过程中对自然和人文地理环境的选择和适应。明清时期,西江走廊人口密度进一步增大,从平原、河谷到低山、丘陵等地区都有人口的分布。但受自然和人文地理环境的作用,聚落类型发生相应的变化。在聚落地名方面,除保留原有自然特征和古越语聚落地名外,社会类型聚落地名大量涌现,充分反映明清时期西江走廊地带在社会经济发展等状况,并奠定了以后本地区聚落地名在和自然特征和经济类型等方面的分布空间格局和命名特征。

Place names of villages are a way to reflect the choices and adaptation to natural, social and geographical environment in the human social development. The density of population of the West River Corridor Strip increased further in the Ming and Qing periods, which led to the spread of population from the plains and river valleys to low hills and mountain areas. But the village types varied due to the change of natural and social environment. As for the naming of places, social-type names emerged in large numbers besides the names of retaining the original natural and living characters. This fact displays the socio-economic development in these periods in the West River Corridor Strip and lays a foundation for the distribution of place names and the naming patterns in this area.