A geographical name is not only the spatial and temporal scope represented by a name, but also many aspects other than the geographical name itself. When we talk about geographical names now, we often ignore their temporal significance and concept, because a geographical name, whether it is a point or a surface, is delimited by geographical coordinates and with specific boundaries. But any spatial range is actually related to a certain time range, this time range is either long or short, and in this time range it is related to many things and factors other than place names, so in addition to their original meaning, place names also have their historical, cultural, social, national and other aspects of meaning.
Because of its long history and profound culture, many place names in Xinjiang have profound historical and cultural connotations, such as Yiwu, Shanshan, Yanqi, Luntai, Weili, Ruoqiang, Zhimu, Wensu, Shule, Shache, Pishan, Khotan, Milan and other place names, which directly follow the names of the ancient city-states of the Western Regions of the Han Dynasty (thirty-six countries in the Western Regions), and each place name has a history of more than 2,000 years. Take Ruoqiang County as an example, Ruoqiang is a shorthand for The Qiang, a small country in the Thirty-Six Kingdoms of the Western Regions of the Han Dynasty, standing side by side with another small country, Loulan, located at the heart of the Silk Road. In 77 BC, Loulan changed the name of his country to Shanshan, and The Qiang dynasty was later annexed by him. That is to say, today's Ruoqiang existed in ancient times with three place names: one is Wuqiang, one is Loulan, and the other is Shanshan. When the Later Qing government set up a county in this area, it used the ancient place name Wuqiang as the name of the county, and at the same time set up the name of Shanshan County in the adjacent eastern Xinjiang region, and the county cleverly preserved the historical imprint of the ancient place name, which not only showed the wisdom of the ancestors, but also a very precious cultural heritage. There are also some place names that are transliterated from ancient place names, Jimsar from "Jinman", Qitai from "Seven Stations" and "Khitan", Kucha from "Guizi" and "Bitter Fork", Hami from "Kunmo" and "Hamili" and "Hamiri", and Toxon from "Tianshan County".
Some of the ancient place names in Xinjiang that are still used today not only sound particularly beautiful, but also make people feel particularly historical and cultural, which has a certain role in promoting economic and tourism development. But today we are not talking about these ancient place names in Xinjiang, but a world-famous book and a well-known TV series in the country to the actual place name of "Journey to the West" - Flame Mountain Town.
The TV series "Journey to the West" is particularly familiar to everyone, and everyone is very curious when watching the "Journey to the West" book or TV series, where is the Flame Mountain described in china by the four Tang monks and apprentices (who should also add Xiao Bailong) when they came to Huozhou? Is it also so hot in reality? Many people will go to reality with such doubts to find the Flame Mountain. After an online search, many people will learn that the Flame Mountain is in Turpan City, Xinjiang, but it is still unclear where it is on the map.
On January 6 this year (2021), the official website of the Civil Affairs Department of the Xinjiang Autonomous Region issued a reply on the approval to revoke the establishment of Erbao Township in Gaochang District, that is, to agree to revoke the establishment of Erbao Township in Gaochang District, Turpan, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, and establish Flame Mountain Town. At this point, everyone knows where the Flame Mountain is, and then you can directly navigate the "Flame Mountain Town" on baidu or Gaode map to see the Flame Mountain in "Journey to the West". Turpan is the place with the highest temperature in China, and the highest temperature once reached 49.6 degrees Celsius, which is known as the "Fire Continent" in history. The Flame Mountain is in the southern foothills of the East Tianshan Mountains and the northern edge of the Turpan Basin, a mountain range with an east-west length of 98 kilometers, a north-south width of 9 kilometers, and an average height of about 500 meters, which is the Flame Mountain depicted by Wu Cheng'en in "Journey to the West", and now there is finally the Flame Mountain Town, which is also a kind of inheritance and continuation of historical and cultural place names.