The origin of Shanghai’s road names
The street names in Shanghai are named for the following reasons:
1. Influence from the concession.
In the early days of the British Concession, road names were randomly chosen. In 1862, the British and American Concessions merged into the Public Concession, and each had their own opinions on the road names within the concession. In the end, both parties compromised and decided to name the north-south and east-west roads respectively after Chinese provinces and cities. On May 5, 1862, British Consul Maihua Tuo issued the "Shanghai Road Naming Memorandum", formulating the principle that all north-south streets should be named after the names of provinces, and east-west streets should be named after the names of cities. The first batch of 19 roads were named. In order to commemorate the huge benefits brought to them by the Treaty of Nanjing, the concession officials named Park Lane Nanjing Road, and the original Consulate Road was named after the name of the Chinese capital: Beijing. road.
But Shanghainese once rejected these road names set by foreigners and called Nanjing Road Dama Road, while Jiujiang Road, Hankou Road, Fuzhou Road, and Guangdong Road were called Second, Third, and Four or five roads, and later the shorter Beihai Road was called six roads. It was not until 1949 that the above-mentioned road names designated by foreigners were uniformly accepted.
There is one exception. Guangdong Road runs east-west, but it has the name of a province. Because the original name was in English, the road was changed to "Cantan Road". In the early days of Sino-foreign exchanges, this word could be understood as either "Guangdong Road" or "Guangzhou Road". When it was first named, the original meaning was "Guangzhou Road", but the Chinese translated it as "Guangdong Road".
2. The product of the Revolution of 1911.
Shanghai was an important area during the Revolution of 1911, and its municipal construction was also deeply affected by it. When roads were built in 1912, they were named Hanzhong Road, Manzhou Road (today's Jinyuan Road), Mongolia Road, Xinjiang Road and Tibet Road. It is taken from the fact that the Chinese nation is a harmonious country of the five major ethnic groups of Han, Manchu, Mongolia, Hui and Tibet. The original "President Road" was changed to "***he Road", the section of Nanchuan Hong Road along the Suzhou River was changed to "Guangfu Road", the eastern section was changed to "Guoqing Road", and Xinzha Bridge was changed to "Datong Road".
3. The product of the period when national capital flourished.
In the early days of the Republic of China, Shanghai's national capital developed rapidly, and more of it was concentrated in the Zhabei area. In order to express the desire to revitalize China and prosper the nation, the newly opened roads were named Central Road and Yongxing Road. , Zhonghua New Road, Hongxing Road, Huasheng Road, Huachang Road, Minli Road, Minde Road, etc.
4. The product of the “Greater Shanghai Plan”.
Nowadays, the roads in Wujiaochang and Jiangwan areas of Shanghai are mostly preceded by the words "people" and "guo". Because there was a "Greater Shanghai Plan" during the Republic of China, the road construction plan was to take Wujiaochang as the center and build five main roads radially around, with branch roads connecting each main road. Among them, all roads parallel to Songhu Road and Huangxing Road use the characters "min" and "guo" as the first characters in their road names, such as: Minqing Road, Minyue Road, Minyi Road, Minzhuang Road, Minfu Road, Guohe Road, Guojing Road, Guoji Road, etc.; for any road parallel to Xiangyin Road, use "Zheng" and "Fu" as the first character of the road name, such as: Zhengji Road, Zhengfa Road, Zhengben Road, Zhengxi Lu et al. Later, due to the Japanese invasion of Shanghai, the "Greater Shanghai Plan" was stopped, and not a single road with the prefix "Fu" was completed.
5. Minor adjustments and changes by the Kuomintang city government.
After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the Kuomintang government used names such as "Fuxing", "Jianguo" and "Zhongzheng" in road names: In order to commemorate the heroes of the Republic of China, "Linsen", "Qimei", " Some roads were named after people such as "English".
6. Changes after the founding of New China, especially since the reform and opening up.
In the early days of the founding of New China, in 1950, the government only changed the names of a few roads, and still used the convention of naming places.
In 1979, Shanghai established place name management agencies at the municipal and district and county levels, conducted a census and naming of place names, and made major changes. Mainly due to the development of municipal construction, some original roads have been canceled and some new roads have been added. At the same time, due to the construction of Pudong New Area and other development zones, hundreds of new residential areas have been added, and the number of roads has increased rapidly.
The roads have New Age names.
A comprehensive review of the history of place naming in Shanghai reveals four lessons: 1. Respect the history of the city’s formation and development, and make place names a distinct commemoration of each period; 2. Respect the participation of “foreigners” and do not completely deny foreigners. The remaining place names; 3. Mainly use conventional place names, and do not exclude the appropriate use of some personal names as place names; 4. During the reform period, there must be new place names that reflect the spirit of reform.
With the continuous development of Shanghai, the urban area is expanding at an alarming rate. The demand for road names is more abundant, and the corresponding rules can only be based on a general principle. This principle is to try to name roads after domestic places, and the location of the named area in the country should be roughly equivalent to the location of the road in Shanghai, while not affecting the original main roads. This may be a way to express the harmony of the country and the cosmopolitan community, and it also weakens the local consciousness of Shanghainese. However, when the desire for expression is too strong, the local color that place names should have will be stripped away. East-west roads are named after cities, and north-south roads are named after provinces. This makes Nanjing Road, Yan'an Road, Fujian Road, Shandong Road, etc., not necessarily more individual than Fifth Avenue or 16th Street in New York.
Under this guiding ideology, an interesting phenomenon such as regional road name clustering appeared on the edge of Shanghai's urban area. Place names in the same province were clustered together on the map. "Qinzhou Road" and "Liuzhou Road" appear in the southwest corner (both are place names in Guangxi), "Anshan Road" and "Shuangyang Road" (place names in the northeast) appear in the northeast corner, and "Huma Road" and "Shuangyang Road" appear in the northeast corner. "Hulan Road" (a place name in Heilongjiang).
In fact, this rule has been used in Shanghai for a long time. However, as the urban area expands, this rule has been in effect. At the same time, new naming must take into account not to affect the original road names, so some The regions are very close on the map, but very far apart in Shanghai, and there are interesting situations such as multiple Northeastern clusters. The most typical ones are Chifeng Road and Duolun Road in Hongkou District, which were the northeast corner of the original Shanghai city. Now they are basically in a position that should be called "Shanghai Road" or "Lianyungang Road", which is very interesting.
Some people from Anhui used this as a basis to ask the Shanghai Library: Why is there no Anhui Road in Shanghai? Plausibly.
This issue makes the comrades of the Shanghai Library a little embarrassed. My subjective guess is that in places where it is possible to name "Anhui Road", there has never been a road that needs to be named. It is more difficult to find out why there is no "Anhui Road" than to find out why there is a road called "Anhui Road".
In fact, there is always a certain degree of randomness in naming. No road is born with a certain name, and the provincial name used to name the road is not the only one missing. Anhui one.
The area that has benefited most from the development of Pudong is undoubtedly the Lujiazui area (Lujiazui is said to be the birthplace of Lu Xun, the general of Soochow during the Three Kingdoms period). Some Shandong place names that are not well-known and not very economically developed have become more frequent in Shanghai. Extremely advanced vocabulary, such as Boshan, Rushan, etc.
The development after the 1990s suddenly made people discover that road names can be a kind of intangible wealth. The person in charge of the Shanghai Municipal Place Names Office said that there is no Ningxia Road in Shanghai. The Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region took the initiative to apply for the name. Ningxia's Guangxia Group, Ningxia Wolfberry and other famous brand companies and specialty products naturally settled on Ningxia Road, creating a new place in Shanghai. The market flexes its muscles to open up a breakthrough.
At the request of Kaiyuan City in Yunnan, Kaiyuan Road was established. People from the Municipal Place Names Office said that a new set of road naming methods is now being implemented. Some road names have begun to take on the dazzling colors of the times: such as Century Avenue, Wuzhou Avenue, etc.; and a number of memorial roads for scientists such as Li Shizhen Road and Newton Road have appeared in Zhangjiang High-tech Park, which seems to indicate the high-tech content of this area.
The name of the road is silent, but it is almost a display card of the evolution of our political and social life. Any attempt to exhaust the meaning of place names will inevitably become beautiful folly. Place names identify stations of individual life or urban life. Whether we have stayed or whizzed by, we have entered its coral reef-like tangle.
The rules of road names in Pudong, Shanghai
I bought a new version of the Shanghai map at noon today. After studying it carefully, I found that the place names in Shanghai are just like the place names in every city. It can well represent the characteristics of a place. Especially the place names in Pudong New Area, it is obvious that there are rules to follow. The naming rules of each place also represent the characteristics of this place.
Biyun International Community
My favorite Biyun Community is at the southwest corner of Yanggao Road and Luoshan Road West. The name of the road is like an oil painting:
East and West Three paths in the direction:
Blue - Sky - Road
Blue - Clouds - Road
Ming - Moon - Road
In the north and south direction, there are four kinds of trees:
Black, white, blue and red
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Pine, birch and eucalyptus maple
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Lulu Lulu
The entire Biyun International Community is a colorful night scene.
Waigaoqiao Fute New Village
Fute New Village is located in the northeastern corner of Shanghai and is not conspicuous.
Four roads in the east-west direction:
Spring - Hui - Road
Summer - Bi - Road
Autumn - Xia——Road
Dong——Rong——Road
In the north-south direction, a horizontal road with the same shape runs through four roads in the shape of "Feng":
Season
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Scenery
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Road
The four scenic spots of spring, summer, autumn and winter are here all year round. A corner of less than one square kilometer quietly unfolds.
Zhangjiang High-Tech Park
As for Zhangjiang, it is obviously not as poetic and picturesque as those mainly residential areas, and they are all named after scientists:
Niu Juhagao
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Dunlires
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Lulu Lulu
The east-west directions are named after ancient Chinese scientists:
Li——Shi——Zhen——Lu
Guo——Shou——Jing——Lu
p>Zu——Chong——Zhi——Lu
Zhang——Heng——Lu
This Zhangjiang university atmosphere is very consistent. Software, microelectronics, pharmaceutical, biological and other industries have settled here. One of Zhangjiang's most impressive actions is that when I was still studying at Jiaotong University, two bus lines opened on the same day: the fifth line of the bridge leads to the entrance of Fudan University, and the sixth line of the bridge leads to the entrance of Jiaotong University. . .
Jinqiao Export Processing Zone
To the east of Biyun Community and to the east of Jinqiao Road is the Jinqiao Processing Zone where manufacturing companies gather. There are too many roads here, so a simple method was used. The north and south roads were collectively called "Golden X Road", and the east and west roads were called "X Bridge Road". X is the abbreviation of a Chinese province. For example:
Gold, gold, gold, gold, gold, gold, gold, gold gold gold gold gold
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Tibetan Xinhu Yunnan, Hunan, Henan, Anhui, Jingji, Susui
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Lululululululululululu
The east-west road has:
Qin - Bridge - Road
Rong - Bridge - Road
Ji - Bridge - Lu
Ning - Bridge - Road
Lu - Bridge - Road
Yun - Bridge - Road
Sichuan-Qiao-Road
Gui-Qiao-Road
Fortunately, there are many provinces in China, and a dozen or so roads can still be lined up. Moreover, the approximate distribution is similar to that on the map of China.
Waigaoqiao Free Trade Zone
If other new areas are still mainly residential and industrial, the number of roads is not very large. A large port like Waigaoqiao has horizontal and vertical roads. Obviously many more roads were built at the same time. For example, there may be twenty or thirty roads in a grid in the port area, but they still don’t have names. Because in the port area, it is estimated that everyone will directly mark the location with the name of the container berth, without the need for a name. If you really want to name them, I would probably use A1, A2, B1, B2. The roads outside the port area must be named anyway so that people outside the port area can find the direction. So, they were named after countries and cities and cities.
Ma—Ji—Road to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Philippines—La—Road to Manila, Philippines
Au—Na—Road to Vienna, Austria
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Japan - Beijing - Road to Tokyo, Japan
Hua - Shen - Road to Shanghai, China
Mei - Sheng - Road to Washington, USA
Thailand-Valley-Road to Bangkok, Thailand
Canada-Taiwan Road to Ottawa, Canada
Netherlands-Denmark-Road to Amsterdam, Netherlands
Germany - Lin - Road to Berlin, Germany
Hua - Beijing - Road to Beijing, China
Love - Capital - Road to Dublin, Ireland
Hope ——Ya——Road to Athens, Greece
New—Ling—Road to Wellington, New Zealand
France—Sai—Road to Marseille, France
English ——London——road London, England
Germany——burg——road Hamburg, Germany
Australia——Nigeria——road Sydney, Australia
Canada, the United States, Japan and Finland
| >If you teach primary school students about world geography, they can memorize it almost accurately with this small piece of map. Trucks loaded with containers are constantly flowing on roads named after places around the world, transporting goods to the Waigaoqiao Port area to be loaded onto giant ships that will sail from the Yangtze River Estuary into the Pacific Ocean. . .
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Well written, just a few additional points :
The flower and tree areas are named after flowers:
Peony Road, Plum Blossom Road, Cherry Blossom Road
Yulan Road, Haitong Road
By The roads in Xincun are all named with the character "Yan":
Yan Yang Road
Yan Feng Road
Yan Zhen Road
Yanmin Road
Also before the development of Pudong, the road names in Pudong followed the naming principles of Puxi. Pudong is to the east of Shanghai and is close to Shandong in China, so many road names are Named after cities in Shandong:
Lancun Road Wendeng Road (now Dongfang Road) Jiyang Road Laoshan Road Rushan Road Fushan Road Eshan Road Weifang Road Qixia Road Jimo Road Changyi Road Juye Road Yushan Road Gu Shan Road Linyi Road Yinan Road Jiaonan Road Lanling Road Nanquan Road Chengshan Luzhou Road Dongming Road Qihe Road etc.