Chinese Name Culture Studies, when did the name Beijing come from? How to choose the name of the baby born in Beijing? When did the name Beijing come about?
Chinese master of name studies, Teacher Xie Yong sorted out, when did the word Beijing appear? How to choose the name of the baby born in Beijing?
Teacher Xie Yong suggested that no matter which city and region the baby was born in, the name of the baby should also be "people-oriented", "life-oriented", the first heavy numerology of the five elements of the boom and bust depth, the balance and circulation of the numerology pattern, the all-round accurate grasp of the difference between the weight of the use of the god, in order to have the basic name; and then can consider the combination of the auspicious mathematical collocation of the name, and more of the basic common sense of the name!
When did beijing get its name from?
The earliest place names that can be found in this part of Beijing are Yan and Ji, and before King Wu of Zhou sealed Yan, the place name "Yan" already existed, also known as Ji.
By the time of the Qin and Han Dynasties, There was Guangyang County, which was a political district at or above the county level, and in the Han Dynasty the county was parallel to the state, so it was once placed as the State of Guangyang, and two nearby counties were closely related to Guangyang County, one was Yuyang County and the other was Zhuo County. Therefore, there is also a saying that Yuyang and Zhuo county are used to represent Beijing.
After the Eastern Han Dynasty, Youzhou appeared, and the State of Yan was also called Fanyang County, Fanyang Kingdom, and the State of Yan later appeared again in Yan County, and these names were alternate. "Yan" was actually the earliest Yancheng, and later there was Yanguo, there was Yan County, and Zhuo County was closer to the original Ji County.
In the Jin Dynasty, this part of Beijing was called The Zhongdu DaxingFu, and later there was Daxing County, which was set up as Dadu Road during the Yuan Dynasty and became the capital.
The Ming Dynasty was the most complex in its toponymic changes, but laid the foundation for today's Beijing. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Beiping Province was established, and later because ming chengzu moved the capital, Beiping Province was changed to Shuntianfu. In the first-level political district (xiang today's provincial level), the Beiping Cloth Envoy Department was set up, and Nanjing was called the Beijing Division at that time.
After the capital was moved to Beiping, Beiping was renamed "Jingshi." However, because the original Beijing Division still retained its status as the capital, in order to distinguish it from the Beijing Division in the north, it was called Nanzhili and Nanjing, and the Beijing Division was called Beijing. Qing Dynasty officials have always called the current Beijing the "Beijing Division" and the surrounding administrative districts are directly subordinate, but regardless of the official people, the custom is still to use Beijing. The Qing Dynasty abolished Nanjing, changed the south to Jiangnan Province, and was later divided into Jiangsu and Anhui provinces. At the beginning of the Republic of China, Beijing continued to exist as the capital. In 1927, Nanjing became the capital and Beijing was renamed Beiping City. In 1949, the capital of the People's Republic of China was set in Beijing, and Beiping was renamed Beijing. From a small princely state and settlement, it has developed into a regional center and an important military base, and has become the capital of another non-Han regime, and now it has become the capital of the country. The evolution of Beijing's place names reflects the development process of the city, and is actually a history of Beijing's development, political achievements and social changes.
"Beijing" has appeared everywhere. "Beijing" as a place name, has appeared in many parts of the country, as far north as today's Inner Mongolia, south to Jiangsu have been used.
Why was the place name Beijing once used all over the country? Since it is called Beijing, there must be places such as Nanjing accordingly. This shows that in history, especially in the period of division, the political center is often not fixed in one place, and the coordinates reflecting the geography of geographical names are also changing. In the coordinate system, such as the central city changes, then the corresponding central location and the place name of the corresponding center will also change.
When did Beijing get its name?
Historically, the earliest documented use of the word "Beijing" was by the Jiangnan people of the Western Jin Dynasty. At that time, they called Luoyang Beijing, which was not an official name, but an official name called Luoyang. In the Jiangnan region, especially in the former State of Wu, Luoyang was called Beijing, which implied both the meaning of "Beijing" because the capital was in the north and the political power of the north.
The practice of truly making "Beijing" the political center originated from the fact that Helian Bobo of the Sixteen Kingdoms called The City of Tongwancheng (present-day Baichengzi, Jingbian, Shaanxi) beijing. After expanding his power to Guanzhong and occupying Chang'an, he set up a southern platform in Chang'an, that is, a government agency in the south, calling Tongwancheng Beijing and the official capital. After the Northern Wei Dynasty moved its capital from Pingcheng (平城, in present-day Datong, Shanxi) to Luoyang, it was once called Beijing because Pingcheng was the old capital. This is relative to the south of Luoyang, respect for the original capital, to satisfy the attachment of some noble courtiers to the old capital, so it is called Beijing.
In the Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties of the Later Tang, Later Jin, and Later Han Dynasties, Jinyang (present-day Taiyuan, Shanxi) was called Beijing. The Tang Dynasty also had the establishment of Nanjing, Tokyo, and Xijing, because Li Yuan, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, started from Jinyang, so it was called Beijing. The rulers of the Tang, Jin and Han dynasties of the five dynasties also started from Jinyang, so Jinyang continued to hold the title of Beijing.
The Jin Dynasty entered the Central Plains and renamed the original Liao Dynasty's Linhuang Province beijing, which is the Bahrain Left Banner in today's Inner Mongolia. Later, it was beijing in the northwest of present-day Ningcheng County, Inner Mongolia. Because the political center of the Jin Dynasty moved inward at that time, relatively speaking, these places became the north, and only then did they have the title of Beijing, and the Ming Dynasty once named Kaifeng Province Beijing.
After Zhu Yuanzhang established the capital Nanjing, he knew that Nanjing was located in the south and hoped to find a place in the north that could build the capital for a long time, so he initially liked Kaifeng Province and upgraded it to Beijing. Later, it was found that the waterway from the south to Kaifeng was silted up, and the amount of water was insufficient to ensure the transportation of grain, and finally had to be abandoned. During the Yongle period, Peiping Province was changed to Shuntianfu, and it was at this time that the concept of Beijing was associated with today's Beijing City.
Many of the times in Chinese history beijing has appeared because of the existence or simultaneous existence of Nanjing. After the Ming Dynasty moved its capital, its official name was Jingshi, but because the two capitals were built together, they could only be distinguished by north and south. If this had not been the case, then after Xuande officially moved the capital, there would be no more Nanjing, there would have been no Beijing, and it would have been impossible for the Qing Dynasty to continue to call it Beijing. After Beijing was renamed Beiping in 1927, residents at that time often continued to call Beijing instead of Beiping. This is enough to prove that historical place names have a very strong vitality, but also have a very strong lag, some place names are not as good as common names, and some customary names can be continued.
From the change of a place name - Beijing, understand that the two words Beijing represent different place names and different geographical coordinates. It shows that in addition to the concept of spatial scope that it should represent, geographical names have complex and deeper meanings in different time categories, which deserve our attention
Architectural culture in Beijing
Beijing was historically the capital of the Six Dynasties, and in the more than 2,000 years since the Yan Dynasty, many court buildings have been built, making Beijing the city with the largest number of imperial palaces, gardens, temples and mausoleums in China.
Forbidden City, Beijing,
During the Ming Dynasty, it was called the Great Inner Palace, and during the Qing Dynasty, it was called the Forbidden City, which was originally the imperial palace of the Ming and Qing dynasties, lived 24 emperors, the architecture was magnificent and spectacular, reflecting the traditional Chinese classical style and oriental style, the largest existing palace in China and even in the world, and a valuable cultural heritage of the Chinese nation. The Temple of Heaven is famous at home and abroad for its reasonable layout and exquisite construction, and is the place where the emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties "sacrificed to the heavens".
Beijing Courtyard
The courtyard is a general term for the traditional houses in the north that form a layout around the middle courtyard with the main room, the inverted seat room, and the east and west wing rooms. Beijing Courtyard originated from the courtyard-style houses of the Yuan Dynasty, and is the most important residential building in the old Beijing city.
Religious architecture
The famous ones in Beijing are: The Buddhist Fayuan Temple, Tanzhu Temple, Jietai Temple, Yunju Temple, Badachu Temple, etc. Taoist White Cloud Temple, etc.
Islamic Beijing Niujie Worship Temple, etc. Lama Temple of Tibetan Buddhism (Lamaism), Catholic Xisku Catholic Church, Wangfujing Catholic Church, etc. Christian Tank Tile City Church, Chongwenmen Church, etc.