In today's Shandong, there is such a place called Dongchangfu District. This is the main city of Liaocheng, where the Liaocheng People's Government is located. Does the name
sound weird? Think about it, a government is an administrative division, and a district is also an administrative division. How do you think these two words are put together?
Of course, this situation has not happened before, because China was accustomed to single-character place names at first, and later became double-character place names, so this phenomenon occurred after the Yuan Dynasty. What does it mean? Um... not so easy to explain directly. Let me give you an example. For example, in Ganzhou now, the administrative division is Ganzhou City (Ganzhou Prefecture in Ming and Qing Dynasties). This was actually called Ganzhou directly at the beginning, and "Gan" was the place name. "State" is the name of an administrative division. But later, it was used to call two-character place names, so "Ganzhou" was a place name, and "Fu" or "City" was added to indicate administrative divisions.
But it's just a slogan. Nowadays, county-level units in China still have vocabulary (but there are no vocabulary in the district). The prefecture-level unit is called vocabulary, which makes people feel awkward. Obviously, this problem does not exist in Dongchang Prefecture. Adding it to make it a three-character place name, on the contrary, makes it very abrupt, as if it was forced in.
Moreover, it is even more strange that this is completely inverted. The administrative system of the Ming and Qing Dynasties is basically the province (the chief minister)-the three-level government-the county, and the government is the second-level administrative region; and now the province-( Prefecture-level) city-county/district, the district is a third-level administrative district.
mixes the second-level administrative area with the third-level administrative area. This is really a very strange situation. How did this happen? The root cause of the
incident was actually the “abolition of prefectures and counties” at the beginning of the Republic of China. The Republic of China abolished the “prefecture” level administrative regions, and China suddenly became a secondary administrative division system, but in China’s national conditions, the second level Administrative districts are not in line with reality, so they later became a third-level administrative district. After a series of evolutions, the second-level administrative district is today a prefecture-level city.
But in this process of change, a bunch of old place names are gone, the most famous here is Huizhou.
What is the situation in Dongchang Mansion? Um... it's a strange situation, the county salted fish below turned over and replaced the previous mansion.
This Dongchang prefecture was a prefecture during the Ming and Qing dynasties. The Qing Dynasty led Liaocheng County, Tangyi County, Boping County, Chiping County, Qingping County, Xin County, Guan County, Guantao County, Gaotang Prefecture , En County Nine counties and one prefecture (Sanzhou, county level), of which Liaocheng is Fuguo County of Dongchang Prefecture (in ancient times, there was no concept of municipal districts, all were counties, and the location of the city was called "Fuguo County") .
However, a new secondary administrative region (whether it is a road, a district or a prefecture-level city) was formed after the "abandonment of prefectures and counties" in the Republic of China. The administrative division name of this place changed from the previous "prefecture name" to "county name". Named after Liaocheng. This situation actually occurs in other places. For example, the most famous is Luoyang. Luoyang was not the name of the prefecture during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, but the Fuguo County of Henan Prefecture (yes, the same name as Henan Province), but after Henan Prefecture was abolished, It was replaced by Luoyang City; and Hefei. Hefei used to be the first county of Luzhou Prefecture. Luzhou Prefecture was abolished. Later, this area was named after Hefei.
Take Jiangxi as an example. Ganzhou, Jiujiang, Ji'an, Fuzhou, etc. still use the previous names of the prefectures. Among them, the capital of Ganzhou is actually called Ganxian, now it is called Ganxian District. This name is also quite strange; Yuanzhou, Guangxinze Replaced by the following counties Yichun and Shangrao; Nanchang is special, because the first county of Nanchang Prefecture is Nanchang County, which belongs to the same name as the Prefecture.
However, it is very rare to put the cart before the horse. According to the truth, the name of the government should continue to be used. For example, Jiujiang in Jiangxi and Fuguo County in Jiujiang are Dehua County, but because Dehua County and Dehua County in Fujian have the same name, It was changed to Jiujiang County, and because Jiujiang was a foreign trade port at that time, it was inconvenient to change the name of Jiujiang, so Jiujiang is still the name of a prefecture-level administrative district; there are also some famous big cities (Guangzhou, Hangzhou, etc.), all of which are used as government names; Otherwise, the name of the residence would disappear, such as Huizhou and Luzhou. The name of
may continue to be used, but it is very rare to reduce the level to a third-level administrative region. Of course there are, unless there is a major change in the area. Shanghai is typical here. Shanghai is originally a county. It is Songjiang Prefecture that manages it. After the vicissitudes of life, Shanghai County became extremely developed, far surpassing Songjiang Fucheng, and finally the Fucheng was swallowed, so Songjiang became a district of Shanghai; or the administrative division changed, so I looked for ancient names, such as recentlyShangrao County, Shangrao City, Jiangxi Province (ancient Shangrao County was Guangxin Mansion Sub-Guo) removed the county and set up districts, so the ancient name "Guangxin" was used. This doesn’t seem to be the case in Dongchang Mansion. Z30z Liaocheng has always been the center of this area. At the beginning, it was Liaocheng County, Dongchang Mansion. Now you can use the local city name of Liaocheng, and use Dongchang as the district name. , It's okay to make do with it, but what do you mean by bringing in the word "Fu" and calling "Dongchangfu District"? In fact,
was not like this at the beginning. It was formed in March 1998. At that time, the Liaocheng area was abolished and the prefecture-level Liaocheng was replaced; the original county-level Liaocheng was changed to Dongchangfu District . As for why it is necessary to bring the word "Fu", it is actually because of the fear of duplicate names. After the large-scale change of duplicate county names in the Republic of China, the internal administrative districts of China usually do not allow duplicate names (counties do not allow the same name, and districts are very special, unless extremely Special municipal districts such as Dongcheng District, Gulou District, and Hedong District can have the same name, and the same name is generally not allowed).
Dongchangfu District really wanted to be called Dongchang District at the beginning, but Jilin already has a Dongchang District, so Dongchang District can’t be called, and it’s more difficult for Liaocheng to change its name to Dongchang City. So it can only be renamed. Then you can take it and find an old name (for example, when Jiangxi Jiujiang County was withdrawn from the district, because Jiangzhou may have the same name, the old name Chaisang was changed), such as Bozhou (Tang-Yuan Dynasty local prefecture level) Unit), but the name is too old, and the locals don’t have any sense of identity. At the same time, Dongchang Mansion is very important in history and has a great reputation. You can see from "Water Margin" that Dongchang Mansion appears frequently what.
So there was such a unique place name in Dongchangfu District.
Author: Yun-Fan
