"Ji'nan city directory", which shows that 188 place names have been written off since the founding of the people's Republic of China; in the last ten years, more than 40 place names have to be written off. Ji'nan Municipal Civil Affairs Bureau Division of Geographical Names Office staff said: different from the new road nomenclature must be submitted to the examination and approval procedure, place name cancellation work only need local civil affairs department to verify, "rough estimate has more than 200, accurate figures are obtained after the second place name census."
it is reported that in the 188 place names, 127 places are cancelled because of the expansion of the residential areas where they are located, including the Ming Lake District (23), the South Liu Jia Zhuang (8), and so on; the 40 places are named after the road expansion, and the old names are written off, such as Ji Shui Lu (9), 6 source Street (6) and so on; and 16 for the construction of the public Garden, square, University City and write off, five Longtan Park (3), Quancheng Square (3), Changqing University City (8); 5 are the original address of the construction of hotels, buildings and other reasons for cancellation, such as the original site of North sesheng Lane built the Pearl Spring Hotel.
Qin Shi Shi's collection of old street lanes in Ji'nan.
Qin Ruoshi, a member of the Ji'nan Municipal Committee of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference and an expert in literature and history, has a map of Ji'nan city in the Qing Dynasty. The map is a map of the existing Ji'nan old place names. According to Qin Ruoshi's investigation, the map has recorded about more than 300 ancient streets and alleys. "There is only less than 1/3 remaining."
the area of the Foshan Park and the chessboard District in the lower district for example, the reporter found in the provincial city street and lane full map: the original Guangsheng street, Fenghuang mouth street, Chiang's Hutong Hutong, ten square courtyard street in the Foshan Garden District area, and the street areas such as winning street, small Qinglong Street, Fuan street, Ming Street and other streets. Compared with the current road names, these old place names are full of flavor but not lack of cultural atmosphere.
but nowadays, it is difficult to find "old Jinnan flavor" in the two districts: none of the old streets such as Guangsheng street, Fenghuang street, and Sheng Sheng street. "After the completion of the New District, the old streets and alleys naturally did not exist, so they had to be written off." Ji'nan City Bureau of Civil Affairs Bureau of geographical names Division staff said that with the expansion of urban renewal, the Bureau has canceled more than 80 road names.