Recently, Hainan, Shaanxi, Hebei, Guangdong and other places have carried out the work of cleaning up and rectifying irregular place names, and standardized and standardized the irregular place names such as "big, foreign, strange and heavy" in residential areas, large buildings, roads, streets and lanes.
It stands to reason that this initiative reflects cultural self-confidence. Moreover, some place names are really self-respecting and strange and difficult to understand, which has been criticized by all walks of life for many years. However, in some places, due to the existence of a one-size-fits-all approach, unclear standards, and insecure organization and implementation, public opinion has also rebounded.
Making foreign names caters to consumer psychology
With the reform and opening up, we found that compared with the world, we are far behind. In the process of catching up, a large number of place names that worship foreign things and flatter foreign countries have appeared.
This community is called "Italian Style", and that commercial building is called "Paris Sunshine"; You are named "Manhattan City" and I am called "Champs Elysé es". If you develop a real estate, you won't be able to sell it if you don't call it "Seine River", no matter whether there is a river next to it. Selling ceramic tile furniture without names like "Kyle Poirot" and "Leonardo da Vinci" feels no class, regardless of whether the names and experiences of these characters have anything to do with the products.
this practice of being famous for foreign countries is a manifestation of cultural self-confidence, and the root cause lies in economic self-confidence.
in the past ten or twenty years, domestic goods and supporting services have indeed fallen behind the international first-class level in terms of quality and application performance. These things can't be caught up with for a while, therefore, making a foreign name will often promote the choice psychology of some domestic consumers.
In addition to using foreign names, some deliberately exaggerated place names, such as "Chinese International" and "Dragon Ruling the World", and some obscure names, such as "Danxi Liuquan" and "Weilan Xiangti", may be used to catch people's eyes and attract more attention, or may be used as a banner to bluff their products. In the final analysis, these are still lacking in confidence.
from a historical perspective, the appearance of "big, foreign, strange and heavy" place names is the product of a certain stage of social development. It is absolutely possible and necessary to criticize it, but we must see that in a certain period of time, some consumer groups are buying this "foreign flavor".
Changing place names should follow the trend.
If we say that we are not confident in giving foreign names to products and communities, then today, when we have become the second largest economy in the world, will changing foreign names definitely highlight our more confidence? This needs to be viewed dialectically.
to be fair, culturally, we are indeed becoming more and more confident. In recent years, there are fewer and fewer new residential quarters and commercial projects, and there are more and more names with national characteristics, historical background and evidence.
For example, according to media statistics, the name of residential buildings in Xi 'an, "Qujiang", has the highest frequency, which is enough to show that the phenomenon of valuing foreign things has converged.
If this trend continues, I believe that in the future, there will be fewer and fewer phenomena of clinging to foreign place names and deliberately seeking the big and the strange. Because the psychology of consumers is also changing, the demand for cultural standards has risen as a whole. Names that used to feel foreign are not good now. In short, this is a market behavior, and the upgrading of the demand side will naturally force the supply side to take the initiative to eliminate false fire.
in this case, local governments should take advantage of the trend to change their names.
A few years ago, there was a "name change storm" in luoma lake, a city with a thousand years' history in Jiangsu Province. Some people changed the name of the lake to "Immediately Lake". It is said that the reason was that "Luoma" was homophonic and fell off the horse, which made it taboo. This is a sign of self-distrust, and it hasn't changed since.
In addition, if a residential area in China is called "California Water County", it can really be said that it worships foreign countries, but it generally has no influence on the normal life of residents and the value of houses. According to media reports, a resident living in a foreign name community said, "If you can solve the problem of children going to school nearby, don't say that we are not called' Oriental Roman Garden', but we are all happy to call it a county garden."
In other words, under the circumstances that some livelihood issues have not been better solved, changing the name in a big way is likely to give the society and the people an impression of engaging in superficial engineering.
In addition, there is a widely concerned question, that is, how much is the cost in the process of renaming? Who will bear it? Is the standard of renaming reasonable?
You can't distort the good ideas
Renaming does not mean that the words at the entrance of the community are changed, and it will be over with new ones. There are a series of things behind this, involving the calculation and burden of costs.
the first thing that comes to mind is whether the names on the room book have to be changed. It may not cost much, but it takes time. What about the name on the ID card? What about the name on the household registration book? The name of the community has changed, and commercial projects have changed their signboards. How much cost, time and energy will it take to update a series of city maps, navigation, street signs, and industrial and commercial registration information? These need to be clear, so that a good measure will not be unpleasant.
in addition, there are some inconsistencies and ambiguities in the standards in promoting the name change work in various places. For example, it is mentioned in the principles and standards of nonstandard place name recognition that place names containing foreigners' names should be cleaned up and rectified, except for those that reflect the friendship between Chinese and foreign people. For example, "Lincoln Apartment", "Kyle Polo Building" and "Columbus Square" have to be changed, but "Bethune International Peace Hospital" is not used.
here comes the question. Lincoln and Columbus really have nothing to do with us, but isn't Kyle Poirot an emissary to spread Chinese culture overseas? Why didn't he reflect the friendship between Chinese and foreign people?
also, as for the identification of place names with strong feudal color, since "Emperor", "Imperial Capital", "Imperial House" and "Wangfu" have to be changed, what about Beijing Wangfujing Department Store?
There is no need to give more examples. This kind of principle and standard is easy to pick out, which only shows that the good classics are crooked. If, as a certain place said, "departmental consultation, expert argumentation, social hearing, etc. should be adopted to fully solicit opinions from all parties on the irregular place names to be cleaned up", I believe the effect will be very different.
How to change the place names? The official responded.
How should the irregular place names be cleaned up and rectified? Recently, the Ministry of Civil Affairs, local civil affairs and relevant departments have made official responses.
Ministry of Civil Affairs: Some local policies and standards are not accurately grasped
On June 21, the Ministry of Civil Affairs announced that in December 218, the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of Natural Resources, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, the Ministry of Transport and the State Administration of Market Supervision jointly issued the Notice on Further Cleaning up and Rectifying Non-standard Geographical Names (Minfa [218] No.146). At present, all localities are actively promoting the work of cleaning up and rectifying irregular place names in accordance with the deployment of six departments, but in some places, there are also situations such as inaccurate grasp of policy standards and unstable organization and implementation.
The person in charge of the Division of Geographical Names of the Ministry of Civil Affairs said that cleaning up and rectifying irregular geographical names is an important measure to further standardize the management of geographical names, inherit and carry forward excellent geographical names culture. All localities should accurately grasp the policies, organize and implement them in strict accordance with relevant laws, regulations, principles and standards, and prevent the scope of clean-up and rectification from being expanded at will. It is necessary to focus on cleaning up and rectifying the nonstandard place names such as "big, foreign, strange and heavy" in newly built residential areas and large buildings in cities and towns with bad social impact and strong responses from all parties. It is necessary to further standardize work procedures, fully conduct expert argumentation, solicit opinions from all parties, prudently put forward a list of clean-up and rectification, and promote implementation in strict accordance with procedures. It is necessary to strengthen publicity and create a good atmosphere for the work of cleaning up and rectifying irregular place names.
Hainan: Publicity is not the final result, and it will be demonstrated.
On June 19th, the Civil Affairs Department of Hainan Province held a media briefing and responded that "Vienna Hotel" is a registered trademark of the merchants, and the content of this clean-up and rectification is the place name logo, not the trademark. "That is to say, there is no problem for merchants to use this trademark, but they can't write the geographical location on the map as Vienna. This is something that needs to be cleaned up and rectified." Shi Qing, deputy director of the Civil Affairs Department of Hainan Province, said that in the next step, the Civil Affairs Department of Hainan Province will organize experts to carry out certification, introduce rectification plans, and carry out rectification under the guidance of relevant departments.
"The announcement we posted on the website of the Provincial Civil Affairs Department is not the final result, but only a key link in the evaluation and demonstration stage. In the previous stage, we have collected valuable opinions from all walks of life. The next step will be to organize experts to demonstrate the clean-up and rectification work on the basis of fully studying and analyzing relevant opinions, so that the clean-up and rectification work will be more scientific and standardized. " Shi Qing said.
Hebei: If you want to change your name, you must ask the people if they agree
"For example, in Hebei, when some' old place names' need to be changed, we will respect the people's ideas more." On June 2, the person in charge of the Place Name Standardization Department of the Civil Affairs Department of Hebei Province said that if the Civil Affairs Department of Hebei Province felt that a place name needed to be corrected, it would be publicized first. If the voice of opposition from the masses was particularly loud, it would not be forcibly changed. "When you say that you want to change it, you have to ask the people whether they agree or not, right?"
The person in charge also said that "renaming" is a big matter, and there is no small administrative cost behind it, which will affect the identity card, household registration and real estate registration of the local residents, so it should be promoted after detailed argumentation.
Nanning, Guangxi: It will not be forced to change its name across the board
On June 2th, the relevant staff of the Civil Affairs Bureau of Nanning, Guangxi introduced that the rectification of irregular place names is still in the stage of sorting out. In view of the names that are suspected of having problems, it is necessary to seek the opinions of relevant stakeholders, such as residents in the community, and will not force the name change across the board.
if there is no explicit requirement in the national regulations on the administration of geographical names that the name must be changed, and the local people don't agree to change the name or change it, try not to change it as much as possible. It is strictly forbidden to arbitrarily expand the scope of clean-up and rectification, and put an end to arbitrarily changing old geographical names.
Xi' an, Shaanxi: Some place names were removed from the list
On June 2th, the Civil Affairs Bureau of Xi' an, Shaanxi responded that 151 irregular place names reported by various districts and counties in the previous period had been checked one by one. According to the relevant licenses of some enterprises and the legal registered names of companies, some place names have been removed from the list, and 151 irregular place names have been reduced to 98.
Xiamen, Fujian: Not all the place names on the list will be changed
"Not all the place names on the list will be changed." Recently, the relevant person in charge of the Xiamen Civil Affairs Bureau of Fujian said that the publicity of the list is to listen to the opinions of the masses.
According to reports, the rectification of geographical names will not affect the normal production and living order of society, and those geographical names that the masses think do not need to be renamed will not necessarily be put in the final rectification list.
Shenzhen, Guangdong: In principle, it does not involve the change of ID cards and other licenses
The Planning and Natural Resources Bureau of Shenzhen, Guangdong Province issued a "Note" on the evening of June 22, saying that the focus of this rectification is the irregular use of place names and road names in pre-sale buildings, and in principle, it does not involve the change of real estate certificates, household registration books, ID cards and other related licenses. The "Description" also pointed out that place names that have been used for a long time and are highly recognized by the society and the masses are not included in the scope of rectification in principle.
(Original title: "What should I do if the place name is not standardized")