台湾地名文化与景观关系探析

Relationship between Scenery and Culture of Toponym in Taiwan

运用地理信息系统和统计分析技术,将台湾全省划分为23个一级行政单元,并选取县(市)、区(市)、镇(乡)、里四个行政区划等级的559个地名进行重点分析。结果显示:台湾省地名景观反映了台湾省热带、亚热带季风气候及其中部高大山脉纵贯南北,东西部平原狭窄、河谷纵横的地形地貌和动植物资源丰富的自然生态环境特征,蕴含着台湾省内独特的原住民文化、大陆移民文化、外来文化等方面的信息;在空间上还表现出移民类地名与各类移民的居住区域相重叠,原住民类地名分布与各民族聚居区相关性较强,海岛类地名集中分布在台湾沿海各县市及其离岛等地名空间分布的特点。

Toponym is a place name, especially refers to one derived from a topographical feature. As the product of human activity, the formation of a toponym has profound geographical, historical and cultural background, not only reflecting the historical period and the reality of the natural geographical features, but also recording a great large of scenery full of cultural information including national prosperity, social changes, economic production, military activities. This article makes an analysis of 559 place names in Taiwan by using GIS and SPSS. The results show that the sight of culture of the toponym in Taiwan reflected the natural environment characteristics： subtropical and tropical monsoon climate, topography featured by huge mountains, narrow plains and complex valleys and rivers; and also its particular culture： the migration culture from Chinese Main Land, Taiwan local culture and Japanese colonial culture. In the perspective of space, the cultural sight of toponym reveals that the distribution of toponyms in Taiwan is consistent with the distribution of Taiwan Aborigines＇ ghetto. The distribution of sea islands＇ toponyms is concentrated in the coastal cities and its affiliated islands in Taiwan.