Study on the distribution characteristics and formation mechanism of traditional village names in Southeast Guizhou
Source abstract
Abstract
Traditional village names are important components of cultural heritage. However, existing research on them is limited in scope and lacks sufficient attention. This study analyzes the spatial distribution characteristics and formation mechanisms of traditional villages names across Southeast Guizhou. (1) Traditional village names adhere to a naming system primarily based on natural landscapes with supplementary cultural landscapes. Natural landscape names are distributed in a band, while cultural landscapes names display clustered distributions. Over time, traditional village names transitioned from random distributions to local aggregations. (2) Traditional village names are influenced by ethnic diversity and intermingling. Elevation and slope serve as primary factors contributing to spatial differentiation within natural landscape names. Historical developments driven by transportation infrastructure construction reveal the formation mechanism behind the spatial patterns observed in cultural landscape names. The study provides valuable insights into exploring the significant correlation between cultural connotations and regional characteristics of place names.
Source: openalex_inverted_index · Quality: baseline
Research context
OpenAlex topics: China's Ethnic Minorities and Relations · Chinese history and philosophy · Philippine History and Culture
SciVX discovery tags are terminology-based. OpenAlex topics are source-provided classifications.
References (55)
Show source-provided references
1. Nan, J. F. Study on the improvement path of the system construction for China geographical names cultural heritage protection lists. China Anc. City 37, 11–16 (2023).
2. Gonzalo, S. & Wladimir, M. R. The space-time compression of indigenous toponymy: The case of mapuche toponymy in Chilean Norpatagonia. Geogr. Rev. 112, 641–666 (2022).10.1080/00167428.2020.1839898 ↗
3. Frolova, E. L. The standardization of foreign geographical names in Japan. Vestn. NSU Ser. Hist. Philol. 10, 122–128 (2018).10.25205/1818-7919-2018-17-10-122-128 ↗
4. Zhou, W. & Liu, Q. Protection and tourism development of cultural heritage of place names in Chengdu, China. J. Resour. Ecol. 13, 1109–1115 (2022).
5. Abdikhalikovna, F. K. Principles of toponyms (place names) classifications. Int. J. Multicult. Multireligious Underst. 7, 73–79 (2020).10.18415/ijmmu.v7i6.1738 ↗
6. Wang, H. et al. City association pattern discovery: a flow perspective by using cultural semantic similarity of place name. Appl. Geogr. 139, 102629 (2022).10.1016/j.apgeog.2021.102629 ↗
7. Sergei, B. Place names: approaches and perspectives in toponymy and toponomastics. J. Cult. Geogr. 40, 255–256 (2023).10.1080/08873631.2023.2250673 ↗
8. Porter, M. C., Parker, A. & Walls, M. Indigenous place names in arctic Canada: a publicly accessible inventory of projects. Polar Sci. 39, 101002 (2024).10.1016/j.polar.2023.101002 ↗
9. Dany, B. French names bestowed by the Baudin expedition along the coasts of Australia: A snapshot of French national spirit during Napoleonic times. J. Historical Geogr. 86, 47–66 (2024).10.1016/j.jhg.2024.02.003 ↗
10. Josip, F., Orietta, S. & Dragan, U. Geographical names of the Adriatic Sea on medieval and early-modern maps and nautical charts. J. Hist. Geogr. 82, 68–80 (2023).10.1016/j.jhg.2023.09.007 ↗
11. Wang, T. et al. Construction of genetic information chain and bionic model of geographical names and cultural landscapes: an example of the South China Sea Islands. World Reg. Stud. 32, 28–40 (2023).
12. Rusu, S. M. Political patterning of urban names capes and post-socialist toponymic change: a quantitative analysis of three Romanian cities. Cities 103, 102773 (2020).10.1016/j.cities.2020.102773 ↗
13. Sergei, B. Exploring informal vexillgeographies: flags, urban place names, and local identities in Minsk, Belarus. Cities 134, 104165 (2023).10.1016/j.cities.2022.104165 ↗
14. Cillian, B. et al. Transformer based named entity recognition for place name extraction from unstructured text. Int. J. Geogr. Inf. Sci. 37, 747–766 (2023).10.1080/13658816.2022.2133125 ↗
15. Zhao, S. W. et al. The spatiotemporal characteristics and influencing factors of settlement name cultural landscape from the perspective of ancient waterway: take the Yuanshui Basin in Hunan as an example. Geogr. Res. 43, 214–235 (2024).
16. Wang, Y. M. & Gong, K. On the culture of place names in traditional ancient villages in Guangxi. Guangxi Ethn. Stud. 05, 112–122 (2019).
17. Cai, Q. & Liao, J. W. Spatial differentiation and influencing factors of traditional villages in the Nanling ethnic corridor. J. China Three Gorges Univ. 05, 57–63 (2024).
18. Qi, J. Q., Zhang, S. Q. & Deng, Y. Y. Study on the spatial characteristics of the place name cultural and scape of Hunan traditional villages. Sci. Surv. Mapp. 48, 220–230 (2023).
19. Chen, Y. L., Lian, W. H. & Bian, H. Analysis on the spatial distribution and origin of Hakka place-name cultural landscape. Sci. Surveying Mapp. 44, 70–77 (2019).
20. Zhou, Y. et al. Landscape Ecology Analysis of Traditional Villages: A Case Study of Ganjiang River Basin. Appl. Sci. 14, 929–934 (2024).10.3390/app14020929 ↗
21. Zhou, Y. The historic progress and sustained development of man-earth relationship of GuiZhou Province. J. Taiyuan Norm. Univ.3, 107–111 (2006).
22. Bi, S. B., Du, J. C. & Tian, Z. Investigating the spatial distribution mechanisms of traditional villages from the human geography region: a case study of Jiangnan, China. Ecol. Inform. 81, 102649 (2024).10.1016/j.ecoinf.2024.102649 ↗
23. Long, J. K. & Liu, X. H. The crisis of ethnic memory and ethnic identity-an investigation and study of the names of Dong Nationality in Southeast Guizhou from the perspective of sociolinguistic. J. Mudanjiang Coll. Educ. 09, 77–80 (2017).
24. Jiang, J. G. The changes and reasons of Guizhou Post Road Traffic in Ming dynasty. Hist. Geogr. 01, 138–150 (2018).
25. Lee, Z. J., Lin, W. X. & Qin, S. C. The development of transportation in southwest China during Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties. Thinking 02, 70–75 (2008).
26. Carles, J. T. M. Interpreting protohistoric societies through place names of landscape features: a case study in València, Spain. Landsc. Res. 46, 811–827 (2021).10.1080/01426397.2021.1914567 ↗
27. Yang, Y. et al. Spatial differentiation of ethnic traditional villages in Guizhou province and the influencing factors. J. Arid Land Resour. Environ. 36, 178–185 (2022).
28. Lin, X. Z. & Chen, Q. H. Spatial characteristics and influencing factors of tourist towns in Fujian Province. Sci. Geogr. Sin. 41, 1645–1653 (2021).
29. Zhao, W. F., Zong, L. P. & Wang, M. J. Spatial distribution of nature reserves in China. Acta Feologica Sin. 44, 2786–2799 (2024).
30. Qi, K. et al. Metaphor representation of resource nodes in cyberspace based on local Moran index and PageRank algorithm. J. Geo-Inf. Sci. 26, 1283–1295 (2024).
31. Du, C. L. & Wang, Y. T. Research on the spatiotemporal distribution characteristics and change mechanism of chongqing geographical names: taking the Yuzhong Peninsula as an example. China Ancient City 37, 65–72 (2023).
32. Huang, X. J., Shen, S. Y. & Hu, X. J. Spatiotemporal distribution characteristics of cultural heritage and their association with natural environment in Meishan Area. Econ. Geogr. 44, 218–228 (2024).
33. Zhang, X. R., Gu, T. F. & Wei, H. The spatial distribution pattern and influencing factors of the intangible cultural Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan Provinces villages. Resour. Dev. Mark. 40, 33–41 (2024).
34. Wang, M., Wu, T. Z. & Zhang, J. J. Research on the coupled and coordinated development of the transportation and logistics system in Guizhou. Mod. Bus. 04, 88–91 (2022).
35. Wang, J. & Xu, D. Geodetector: principle and prospective. Acta Geogr. Sin. 72, 116–134 (2017).
36. Guan, Y. B. Geographical distribution of place names and peoples. J. Guizhou Norm. Univ. 03, 13–19 (2007).
37. George, B. S., Joseph, M. & Zvinashe, M. Renaming Enkeldoorn: Whiteness, place, and the politics of belonging in Southern Rhodesia. J. Hist. Geogr. 77, 55–64 (2022).10.1016/j.jhg.2022.05.001 ↗
38. Peng, Y. & Wang, Q. H. Spatial distribution and influencing factors of settlements in the farming–pastoral ecotone of Inner Mongolia, China. Ecosyst. Health Sustain. 6, 1771213 (2020).10.1080/20964129.2020.1771213 ↗
39. Rysbergen, K. & Uali, N. Cultural representation of the semantics of Kazakh geographical names. Tiltanym 89, 189–200 (2023).10.55491/2411-6076-2023-1-189-200 ↗
40. Peter, J. Adequate minority place-name representation on topographic maps. KN J. Cartogr. Geogr. Inf. 73, 289–299 (2023).10.1007/s42489-023-00150-w ↗
41. Giuseppe, S. & Alessio, F. U. Geographical maps meet place names where languages meet dialects: the case of Italian. Forum Italicum 57, 1019–1040 (2023).10.1177/00145858231190030 ↗
42. Parker, R. E. et al. Urban sociology: Chicago School Urban Studies Collection (Be translated Song, J. L. & Wu, J. H.) 173 (Huaxia Press, 1987).
43. Pierluigi, F. D., Fernando, G. L. & Silvia, S. The place names of the Aragonese maps. Interpretative hypotheses, landscape readings and methodological proposals. Int. J. Cartogr. 8, 3–17 (2022).10.1080/23729333.2021.1982474 ↗
44. Yang, X. P. et al. Analysis of spatial distribution characteristics of traditional villages in terraced areas of Guizhou Province. J. Guizhou Norm. Univ. 40, 62–68 (2022).
45. Wu, Y. W. A study of Miao place names and Miao history and culture in southeast Guizhou. J. Guizhou Minzu Univ. 03, 48–52 (1995).
46. Fan, T. S. The development of transportation in Guizhou at the end of Qing dynasty. Guizhou Cult. Hist. 04, 18–20 (1997).
47. Xie, J. L., Chen, X. Z. & Wu, Y. T. From “burying stones to set rules” to “government issues a notice by erecting a monument”: the changes of the rural socia governance system in the southeast Guizhou in the Qing Dynasty. Guizhou Ethn. Stud. 45, 156–162 (2024).
48. He, G. J. On the Jimi prefecture system in the history of Miao nationality area. Guizhou Ethn. Stud. 2, 49–55 (1985).
49. Xu, R. Q. The Expansion of Northern Song Territory and the Evolution and Influence of Surrounding Ethnic Relations. Lect. Notes Hist. 6, 060202 (2024).
50. Zhang, Y. Q. & Zhou, K. Post road development and space production: An analysis on the process of regional social structure in southeast Guizhou in Ming and Qing Dynasties. Guizhou Ethn. Stud. 42, 150–156 (2021).
51. Chen, Z. H., Li, J. X. & Wang, Z. B. Ecological response and environmental order in the intangible cultural heritage of Southeast Guizhou ethnic cultural and ecological reserve. Sci. Geographical Sin. 44, 502–512 (2024).
52. Yang, G. L. & Li, Z. Influence of social changes on evolutionary laws of traditional village distribution in southeast Guizhou Province. South Archit. 6, 17–24 (2022).
53. Li, B. H. et al. Research on the revitalization path of human settlements in traditional villages from the perspective of “dual cultivation” of settlements: a case study of Zhangguying Village, Hunan Province. Geogr. Res. 39, 1794–1806 (2020).
54. Shi, Y. X. et al. Study on spatial evolution of geographical names in Tongzhou Canal settlements. J. Spat. Sci. 4, 75–791 (2023).
55. Liu, D. M., Wang, Y. & Liu, B. L. Historical context and economic and social value of Guizhou Ancient Post Road since the Yuan, the Ming and the Qing Dynasties. J. Guizhou Educ. Univ. 39, 1–9 (2023).