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Thread: Ancient Names Tell - Category 1_Capital Cities_Shijiazhuang
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[quote=RITA,226122]Shijiazhuang石家庄, if you feel it's like a name of a small village, you are right! Shijiazhuang was a village of about over a hundred families and the population was only 600, under control of Huolu County (present day Luquan, but the former administrator is now administrated ) When I wrote this, a famous Chinese saying emerged (coarse though) - 三十年河东,三十年河西, how true! Geomantic omens change, people's luck change.The name of Shijiazhuang was first appeared in Ming Dynasty, but how the village gained this name, no authoritative answer can be found, there are two possiblities.Well, I have to say sometimes, Chinese were not good at naming the places they lived in poeticly and euphonicly, but very descriptive and practical. Like Shijiazhuang(石家庄) probably means the village has only ten families- Ten Family Village, so 石 was transformation of 十(ten). Another possiblity is that, that all the people in the village were from the same familay root, Shi. This might be difficult to understand for our foreign friends, but it was usual in rural areas in China, even today, the whole village all relatives with the same family name. Even now, there is a village named Dongjiazhuang in Shandong Province, I and those who live in that specific village are biologically connected, those are all my relatives:-) But Dongjiazhuang has not yet developed into a capital city, I'll wait and see. :-)Shijiazhuang now is proudly tell the world, it is the biggest village with the population of over 9 million.[/quote]
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