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“The north-south stop of the fourth section of the West Third Ring Road has arrived. The next stop of the west third ring road is outside the fourth section … South Fourth Station of the Third Section of the Third Ring Road … “

Are you dizzy? The name of this bustling and bustling bus station comes from Chengdu’s bus line 137. Passengers taking this line are in a state of collapse, and they will pass by the station if they are not careful.

Before the name change in November of this year, the station names of multiple bus lines along the Third Ring Road in Chengdu were composed of similar orientation words such as “inside and outside”, “east and west, north and south,” and “one two three four”. Like tongue twister.

“Now, getting off the bus all depends on navigation.” At the same time, netizens voiced, but also made this a fun thing to laugh at.

Names of Chinese bus stations, landmarks are important

The subway is usually a patent that can only be enjoyed by large cities, and the bus is a public service that every city can enjoy, and it is also the most common mode of transportation for Chinese residents.

Bus buses are indispensable. The name of each site, in addition to having a strong indication function, is also a city’s business card and cultural symbol.

With the curiosity of exploring the secrets of the names of Chinese bus stations, Materia Medica used crawlers to crawl a total of 270,000 bus station names from 457 cities in China online.

The names of bus stations are similar or even coincident with place names. The composition of bus station names is the same as place names.

For example, the name of a bus stop in Chengdu is “Shangjin Road”. The “Shangjin” in the front is used to distinguish and identify other geographical things, and the “road” in the back is “general name”. entity.

Generally speaking, the “general name” part is at the end of the bus stop name. By segmenting the names of 270,000 bus stops and analyzing the ending words separately, it was found that the number of bus stop names ending in “mouth” in Chinese cities was the largest, with more than 20,000.

In order to facilitate the gathering and dispersal of the crowd, bus stops are mostly set at the intersections of roads. Therefore, the words “road junction”, “street junction”, and “avenue junction” in the names of bus stations occupy a lot of parts.

Second, there are more than 10,000 bus stations ending with “road”, “village”, “station”, “park” and “district” . In addition, there is a special type of ending words, which are the orientation words “east”, “south”, “west”, and “north”.

Although this type of location word does not correspond to a geographic entity, it also needs to be followed closely. For example, the Chengdu bus station “Caotang North Branch Road East” and “Furong Middle Road East”, and the location word plus the location word, In order to more accurately indicate the specific location of the bus station.

It is not difficult to find that most of the names of bus stations refer to common geographic entities. Station names are often subordinate to place names. According to the “Specifications for the Service of Passenger Cars and Passenger Cars in Cities and Towns”, China’s urban bus stations should be given priority to use well-known place names. [1]

For example, from a national perspective, bus stations have the most reputable landmarks. There are the most bus stations in the country, with 187. After walking through many cities, you will find that you still cannot escape the fate of taking the bus to the “train station”.

There are also many directly called “Chinese hospitals”, “city governments” and “people’s hospitals”, all of which have more than 100. In addition, there are also many bus stations such as “Municipal Party School”, “Traffic Police Brigade”, “Sports Center” and “Maternal and Child Health Care Hospital”.

These locations are available in almost every city, and are also the places with the highest concentration of people.

So, what type of place name is the most popular? By segmenting and classifying the names of bus stations, it can be found that in China, more than half of the bus stations have been added to a certain area, a garden, a hospital, a square, and other landmark buildings and public places when naming.

Second, it is more common to name the surrounding environment of a certain intersection, a certain intersection, a bridgehead, and other sites, accounting for 20.07%, followed by road names, accounting for 18.81%.

For example, when the Chengdu Third Ring Road was just completed, the vicinity of the line was too empty and there was no reference. It can only be named after the road name, and used “segments” and “inner and outer sides” to distinguish adjacent sites. The names are too similar.

When the name was changed this year, the new station name was combined with local landmarks, such as “East Inner Station of the First Section of the North Third Ring Road” was changed to “Happy Valley” and “Outer Station of the Fourth Section of the North Third Ring Road” was changed to “To And intersection. ” [2]

North-South differences in bus station names

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