Abstract
Historical geographic names belong to geographic names, which divide into the names that are still in use and those disappeared. Due to natural elements or human elements, historical geographic names continuously evolved. So far, there are six different types. In consideration of their significances, it is high time to protect historical geographic names. As for the protections, it should be based on the types of the evolution of the historical geographic names.
Highlights
Historical geographic names are the products of history, some are still in use today, their meaning are not much changed still maintaining vitality; Some have changed their contents, others have faded into the past completely abandoned and no longer used
After removing, renaming or any other changes, the old names are no longer used in the same level of administrative zones, but they might become the name of low level administrative zones, community, village, or even road; if this situation is considered to be out of use, it is difficult to define historical geographic names
If the variations exceed a certain limit, great changes would happened to the entities(such as a big adjustment in political space, the original name of the administrative center is no longer referring to the scope of this administrative zones, etc.), referring to another object, which does not belong to this kind of situation; In other words, it should be renamed
Summary
Historical geographic names are the products of history, some are still in use today, their meaning are not much changed still maintaining vitality; Some have changed their contents, others have faded into the past completely abandoned and no longer used. The ancient geographic names record the rise and fall of the country, the past of the nation, the developments of the society and even the changes of the natural environment [3] In 2000, Mr Chen Qiao-yi came up with three general aspects of toponym research since the Pre-Qin Dynasty including geographical location researches, evolution change researches and origin history researches. He called on contemporary toponym workers to sort out and develop on the basis of previous achievements. This study mainly aims at these three aspects and tries to make a preliminary discussion on the definition, evolution and protection of historical geographic names in China
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