Welcome to changsha! I am your tour guide, my name is x, you can call me little x. In order to facilitate everyone to visit, let me first introduce the origin of the name, changsha people.
"Changsha" in the name of the first in the western zhou dynasty, 3000 years ago. Later dynasties, changsha of hunan city and southern town, after the founding of new China, as the capital of hunan province, changsha become one of the state council promulgated the first 24 historical and cultural city.
Changsha is a how of, opinions vary, different history records, basically has the following a few said:
One, named star in changsha
Shi-ji day GuanShu "cloud:" days have lodge, to have the state domain." Twenty BaSu Chiu lodge a star called "changsha", the ancients according to astrology eset's theory, the land of changsha to changsha star, think changsha place-names from star name, so the changsha "star sand," said.
Second, named Yu Wanli sand shrine
Wan Lisha shrine said today (Monday) in jin at the earliest Kan horse because of the "thirteen states:" han "has Wan Lisha shrine, and since hunan state, to a surname wanli, yue changsha." Since then, the tang dynasty Li Jifu "yuanhe county," citing "DongFangShuoJi" cloud: "the south county have Wan Lisha shrine, from hunan state to a surname wan li, yue, changsha." Tang tu yu tong Canon "tam states" qin ", changsha county, since the note also cloud: "have Wan Lisha temple, yue changsha." So after the generation of local Chronicles, more say as the source of changsha is named, and best.i exposition, think of god, the god of changsha in the ancient cult sand activities.
Three, gets its name from the "land of sand"
Changsha for geological structure by quartz sandstone and glutenite, siltstone and shale as the foundation, after years of external force, formation collapse rock and the weathering and water erosion, make a lot of sand and stone are accumulated in the surface, especially in downtown changsha xiangjiang river valley, with large areas of beach, sand, etc., when low water season, exposing the chau, beach, and to show people a piece of sand, especially grew up the sand, "white sands, such as frost and snow," the scene is very conspicuous, so many of ancient books called changsha township sand or sand land. Like changsha satrap of da tang Zhang Wei the "changsha folk dancing inscriptions" lead "dun armour" cloud: "sand land, YunYang market." Road history again yue: "sand, for changsha; YunYang, ling for tea." "Yuanhe county" cloud: "" yugong" domain of jingzhou, the spring and autumn for released, qian chu south of the border. The qin dynasty and the world, points in guizhou sands of township, changsha county, south of to tong xiang chuan."
Four, gets its name from the long bar
Surface states of changsha xiangjiang river, about 5000 meters long, 100 meters wide, is a relatively distinctive geographical landscape.
Five, takes its name from "the" language "cult goddess"
Before "nanping pretty more" chu, changsha residents "pretty the clan. In the language of the "long" is the meaning of "altar", "sand" is the meaning of "goddess", not "god" of sand. "Changsha" in quite the meaning is "local" sacrifice to the goddess. , zhuang and dong ethnic communities have the custom of worship of the goddess, in their idioms "adulthood village, changsha" first.
conclusion
After the age of literati scholar's discussion, the first and second kind of claims being negative. While the third and fourth on the basis of basic same, is a prominent feature characteristics of changsha, relatively believable. Changsha placenames, should be the natural environmental characteristics of the ancient ancestors' according to changsha and gradual confirmation, finally established, posterity; Should be "began in the conceptions of the world", to the western zhou dynasty was confirmed. As for the fifth said, is not determined, but also as a ra.