How are the names of places and roads in Taipei named? Things can be traced back to 1947. After the return of Taiwan Province Province after World War II, the government invited a planner named Zheng Dingbang from Shanghai to plan the road name for Taipei and changed the name of the previous Japanese occupation period.
Because Shanghai's road names are mostly divided by provinces, Zhejiang Road, Jiangxi Road, Shaanxi Road, and things are mostly divided by cities, such as Fuzhou Road, Nanjing Road and Beijing Road. In addition, Zheng Dingbang believes that if the place names of Taipei are similar to those of mainland provinces and cities, it will better arouse and rebuild the national consciousness of Taiwan Province people. Later, Zheng Dingbang followed this method in Shanghai and named the streets of Taipei with mainland names. Until today, the streets in the old city of Taipei have names.
With Nanjing Road as the center, like the map of China, there are streets in Changsha, Guiyang, Wuchang and Hankou in the west, Ningxia, Datong and Dihua in the northwest, Tibet, Xichang and Kunming in the southwest, Changchun, Siping, Chifeng, Jinzhou, Jinan and Xuzhou in the northeast, Yongkang, Wenzhou and Qingtian in the southeast and Qingtian in the south.
All provinces and cities in Chinese mainland can find their own signs on the roads in Taipei. Only the streets in Jilin Province include Jilin Road, changchun road, Siping Street, Dunhua Road, Yanji Street and Tonghua Street.
Not only the road name is named after the city of Chinese mainland, but also the direction is based on the original direction. In the old town of Taipei, the street name is a microcosm of the territory of Chinese mainland, and the street name is named roughly according to the southeast and northwest position of China City.
For example, the streets in the east of the city are often called Nanjing Road and Hangzhou Road, the streets in the west are called Xining Road and Chang 'an Road, the streets in the northeast are called Jilin Road, and the streets south of Guiyang Street are called Guilin Road. If you know the rules of naming streets in Taipei and are familiar with geography, you can roughly guess where you are.
Not only that, there are many night markets in Taipei that are also named after mainland provinces and cities, such as Tonghua Night Market, Xichang Night Market, Ningxia Night Market and so on.
In addition to the naming features of mainland domain names, the streets of Taipei have some other naming features.
Zhongshan Road is the north-south main road in Taipei. Almost all cities in Taiwan Province Province have Zhongshan Road and Zhongzheng Road, which are the most famous roads in Taiwan Province Province. There are other roads with strong democratic ideas, such as nationality, civil rights and people's livelihood, and some roads that reflect China culture: China, loyalty and filial piety, benevolence, faithfulness and harmony. These words are also familiar to mainland tourists.
There are many street names related to the mainland in Taipei. Some famous cities basically have this road in Taipei. Although it is impossible to list them one by one, in Taiwan Province Province, place names, streets and other place names reflect the history, culture, provinces and cities of China and can be regarded as one of the spiritual ties between the two sides. Just from the name of the road in Taipei, we can see that blood on both sides of the strait is thicker than water and is a real family.
Generally speaking, what roads related to the names of mainland provinces and cities have you been to in Taipei? Welcome to leave a message in the comments section.