"Harbin Kao" research: "Harbin" is the translation of the Jurchen word "Ale Jin", which means "honor"; "Manzhou Place Name Kao" records: It is said that Tsarist Russia set up Harbin City Street When the Construction Bureau, they spent a lot of thought on the setting of place names. They visited some small villages along the Songhua River and asked the locals for place names. The locals called this place Haoubin. At the same time, Tsarist Russia also imagined many names, but none of them were adopted. Finally named Harubin. The name "Harubin Street" appears on the map produced in 1900. "Harubin" means "fish net" in Manchu. It is said that this area was a large fishing area for the Manchus a long time ago, and the Han people called it a net drying ground. Later, Harubin was incorrectly pronounced as Harbin; some data record that this place used to be a grassland area on the bank of the Songhua River. The Mongolian people used this place as a flat meadow, and it looked like Harbin from a distance, so it was called Harbin, and later incorrectly pronounced as Harbin.
The special historical process and geographical location have created Harbin, a beautiful and exotic city. It not only brings together the history and culture of northern ethnic minorities, but also integrates Chinese and foreign cultures. It is a famous historical and cultural city in China and The tourist city is known as the "Ice City", "Pearl under the Swan's Neck", "Oriental Moscow" and "Oriental Little Paris". Harbin was selected into the list of "Top 200 Charming Cities with Chinese Characteristics" in 2006. Harbin is also the only city to bid for the Winter Olympics on behalf of China!
Harbin is located in the center of the Northeast Asia Economic Circle and is the largest central city in China's border opening belt. Started in 1990, the "China Harbin Economic and Trade Fair" has been held for fifteen consecutive years and has become an important forum for Harbin to carry out trade, economic and technological cooperation with countries around the world, especially with Russia and other CIS countries and Eastern Europe. Bridges and windows are moving towards international expositions. On July 11, 2008, the Olympic flame will visit the Ice City.
The city flower of Harbin is lilac, so it is also known as "Lilac City".
The "Swan Theory" put forward by Wang Yulang, director of the Institute of Local History of the Harbin Academy of Social Sciences, which collected ten years of research results, has been widely recognized.
This statement claims that the original pronunciation of Harbin is "galouwen", which means "Harwen", and its original meaning is "swan". The word "swan" in the Jurchen language is an imitative word. The cry of a swan is "Kalu - Galu", that is, "kaloun - kalou". The vast wetlands and river sides of the Heilongjiang River Basin and Songhua River Basin are where swans migrate. The inevitable place of time. So how did this sound change to Harbin? It turns out that the ancient Central Plains phonology did not have the "Ga" sound often pronounced by northern ethnic minorities, so the "Ga", "Ka" and other sounds that appeared in place names were basically written as "Ha", "He" or "A". "ER" is a distinctive pronunciation of northern ethnic minorities.
Wang Yulang uses multidisciplinary comprehensive research methods, starting from linguistics, tracing back to the historical etymology, and using in-depth research in geography, philology, toponymy, archaeology, folklore, ethnology, etc. to Based on a large number of historical documents and cultural relics, the theory of "Harbin" - "Swan" in Jurchen language is proposed.
Many Jurchen linguists, historians, and archaeologists deeply agree with this result and regard it as the "general theory" of the origin of the current place name of Harbin. Comrade Wang Huafang, deputy secretary of the Municipal Party Committee, also gave scientific affirmation to this.
This achievement also has strong practical significance and plays a great role in shaping the city's image, increasing its popularity, and improving citizens' cultural taste. Now, you know that the beautiful name Harbin contains such beautiful and profound meaning. Whiteness and bravery are the spiritual portrayal of the ancestors of Harbin, and this kind of blood flows through each of us. Then, when someone asks about the meaning of the name of our hometown, we will no longer be at a loss. The beautiful "swan" is our home.
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