地名,不仅仅包含了一个地方区位、地理的含义,往往由于种种约定俗成的原因,还反映某个地区在特定历史阶段内风土人情、经济社会、历史文化等各种因素的信息,成为我们探究历史发展轨迹的有用线索。在上海前南汇区的一些地名中,我们可以寻找到一些这样的线索。通过对地名背后经济文化现象的探究,可以对上海悠久的海盐晒制文化和地理变迁的关系做相应的了解。我国人民几千年前就已在海边从事晒制、煎熬食盐的生 Place names contain not only the geographical location of a place, the geographical meaning, often due to various common reasons, but also reflects a particular historical stage in a particular historical period of local customs, economic and social, historical and cultural factors such as information, as we explore the history Useful clues to the trajectory of development. We can look for some of these clues in some places in Nanhui District, Shanghai. Through the study of the economic and cultural phenomena behind the place name, we can get a proper understanding of the relationship between Shanghai’s long history of sea salt culture and geographical change. Our people, thousands of years ago, had been engaged in sunning and salt cooking at the seaside