Do you know how places in our country are named?

To be honest, I haven't been out of the province, but it doesn't affect me to introduce the small counties in our hometown. To talk about the name of a very good county must be our Gansu Tianshui and Jiuquan.

1. Tianshui

About the name of Tianshui, say all sorts of things, quite a lot of controversy, mainly:

(1), because the "Tianhe River water" said.

(2), because the "Tianshui Temple" said.

(3), because of the eight trigrams "Qian ()", "Kan ()" "deed" said.

(4), because of the West Han water said.

(5), because the "Tianshui Lake (pool)" said.

The legend of Tianshui

One night in the third year of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty (114 B.C.), the sky suddenly flashed with lightning and thunder, rain and wind, and with the flash of a golden light, the ground appeared red. At once, the earth shook continuously, and in the midst of a loud rumbling sound, the sky crumbled and a huge pit was formed on the ground. See the sky pouring rain, water pouring down, into the pit, so the formation of a lake, called "Tianshui Lake". This lake level is stable, pure water, sweet and mellow, "spring does not dry up, summer does not overflow, limpid in all seasons". People say that the lake and the Tianhe River, and called it "Tianshui Well". Later, this legend was heard by Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty, he ordered to build a new county next to the lake, named "Tianshui County". From then on, the name "Tianshui" came into being.

2, Jiuquan

It is said that Jiuquan got its name from the fact that "there is a spring under the city" and "its water is like wine". Western Han Dynasty Dongfang Shuo's "Divine Scripture" wrote: "Northwest of the desert in the wine of the jade feed, wine spring injection, wide one zhang, long and deep three zhang, wine as beautiful as meat, clarified as a mirror. There are jade bottles and jade fruits on the top, and if you take a bottle, a bottle will be born again, and you can rest with the sky without any dry time. There were dried meat on the edge of the stone, which tasted like the dried meat of a deer or a roe deer. Drinking this wine, people do not live and die, a legacy wine. The name of the preserved wine is called "Recovery", and one piece of it is eaten and one piece of it is recovered." Because of this article, Jiuquan is gradually recognized as a place where "there is a spring under the city, and its water is like wine".

Secondly, it is related to Huo Zhaodi. In folklore, the name "Jiuquan" is associated with Huo Zaiwei, a young general of the Western Han Dynasty. After Huo Zaizi was ordered to fight against the Xiong Nu and won a great victory, he had to organize a feast to celebrate his success. Wine was indispensable for a victory banquet, but the Gansu region was a barren desert at the time, and the generals brought very little wine to reduce the weight of their baggage on their campaigns.

Huo Zaiwei did not want to spoil everyone's fun, on the way Huo Zaiwei ran into a spring, a turn of mind, will take the wine poured into the spring, the spring water is fresh and clean, coupled with the aroma of the wine enough to carry and the whole army **** with the drink, which became the "wine spring" name comes from.

Summary, in fact, we have a lot of very good name of the small county. Not only a long history, it is the literati writers penned the beautiful scenery