I want to ask what the word Handan means.

Handan, an ancient city with a long history. As early as 7,000 years ago, the ancestors of Cishan created a splendid civilization here. According to relevant data, Handan has a history of more than 3,000 years, and its name has never changed. Especially after liberation, Handan has developed and revived by leaps and bounds in just a few decades. Handan was promoted from a county-level city to a big city today. The development of the city has created convenient conditions for the mutual integration, research and popularization of Handan culture in various periods. Magnetic mountain culture, Taiji culture, Dream culture, Northern Dynasties culture and Song Wenhua in Sui, Tang and Tang Dynasties have all been excavated, studied and publicized to varying degrees, and Handan has been fully displayed. Let the world know, understand, enter, develop and study Handan.

Studying Handan is to study from different fields. The origin of Handan place names has also become a research topic for some experts and scholars.

In fact, the discussion on the origin of Handan place names has never stopped since ancient times, but it is intermittent, unsystematic and out of touch. Here are a few representative statements.

The place name of Handan was first seen in Gu Liang Zhuan in the Spring and Autumn Period: "Handan weaves the sound of canals and never keeps it." That is to say, in 546 BC, there was a civil strife in the state of Wei, and doctor Ning was killed for some unknown reason. Guo, the brother of Ning's partner, fled to Handan. This is the earliest record of Handan in historical documents.

There is also a record of "Guan Yi Dune Garden Platform" in Historical Records Yin Benji. Zhang Shoujie's Textual Research on the Justice of Historical Records in the Tang Dynasty quoted the Annals of Bamboo Books as saying: "I moved to Yin from Pan Geng for 253 years, but I haven't moved to the capital. When he grew up, he left Chao Ge in the south and Handan and sand dunes in the north, and both left the palace. " It means that when Pan Geng, the ancestor of Zhou Wang in Shang Dynasty, moved to Yin (now Xiaotun, Anyang, Henan Province) and went there, the Yin Dynasty perished, and never moved the capital again for 253 years. During the period of Zhou Wang, the capital gradually expanded, reaching Chao Ge (now Qixian County, Henan Province) in the south and Handan and sand dunes in the north, and separation palaces were built everywhere. The reign of Yin was about 1 1 century BC, which indicates that the place names of Handan existed as early as 3000 years ago.

The origin of the name of Handan, Zhang Yan, an annotator of Hanshu, explained: "Handan Mountain is under the East City. Single person, do also. The city wall came from the city, so it added a cloud. "

An expert in modern times explained the origin of Handan's name as: There is a mountain in this city called Hanshan. Handan got its name from this.

Another modern scholar explained the origin of Handan's name as: the edge of Chinese characters is the opposite of Dan. The sun rises on the horizon; This day has not come yet. The sweet sun has never crossed the horizon, but its brilliance shines on the horizon, which shows that the sun is about to rise. On the edge of the word "Dan", there is a fertile field on the horizon, and the two dots above Tian Zi symbolize the lush millet and grass in the field. Next to the word Handan, it symbolizes the prosperity of the population and the flocks of cattle and sheep in this land. In short, the sun in Handan is about to rise, and the sun shines on this fertile land with a prosperous population and flocks of cattle and sheep.

The author thinks that the origin of their names is nothing more than geographical features, landmark buildings, animals and plants, wishes and ideals, names of important people, surnames and so on.

Named after geographical features, such as Daodongbao, Daoxibao, Xihepo Village, Donghepo Village, Qian Shan Village and Shanhou Village; Named after landmark buildings, such as Tadong Ancient Town, Taxi Town, Yan 'an Village and Yabeizhuang. Named after animals and plants, such as Xinghua Village, Taoyuan Village, Shiziling and Laohupo; Named after wishes and ideals, such as Shunhe Village and Heping Village; Named after important people, such as Zuoquan County and Luocheng Village. Of course, there are others named in other forms, so I won't list them here. Personally, I think Handan, like Shijiazhuang and Zhangjiakou, is named after surnames.

Although the surname Handan can't be found among hundreds of surnames now, it used to have the surname Handan, which is a compound surname. In the past, everyone had not only a surname, but also a surname. Surname and surname are two different things. Since the Sui and Tang Dynasties, surnames and surnames have merged into one, and some have inherited surnames as surnames. Others will inherit the surname as surname. For example, according to relevant data, it is now Wu surname, and it used to be Ji surname and surname. Since the Sui and Tang Dynasties, this branch has been divided into two parts: one is the surname Ji; A surname, surnamed Wu; There are also many compound surnames that have been taken apart to inherit; At the same time, many surnames evolved into other surnames and passed down. As for the specific name of Handan, it is still unknown whether it moved to other places, or split into surnames as people say, or evolved into other surnames. But there is no doubt that Handan was originally a compound surname.

In the past written by Ban Gu, there is a description of "Han Danchun". In the book "Ancient Surnames" written by Wu Heding, the description of "Han Danchun" in ancient times is: "Handan, whose name is Chun, is uncle. Handan has a compound surname. Ren Wei, who is good at collating stone classics in eight-style writing, remembers elegant and elegant, and refers to words and books. Han Danchun learned eight styles, studied under Cao, and was especially good at ancient Chinese characters, big seal script, stereotyped writing and official script. Since Du Linwei's secret, ancient prose has disappeared. It was written by Chunfu. Therefore, it is certain that Handan used to have this surname. Therefore, people think that the origin of Handan place names should be named after surnames.