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The development of settlement geography and the background of the Method of Life Place Name in Japan are sorted out in the paper. Integrating geography, sociology historiography and folklore, the method of Life Place Name was put forward under the background of absorbing related disciplines with settlers' objective view and is used for analyzing spatial structure of settlement. In 2010, this method was used in settlement research outside Japan for the first time. Through collecting life place names and extracting the spatial awareness of villagers in Manhai, a traditional Dai village in Sipsongpanna, China's Yunnan province, the spatial structure of Manhai is summarized objectively and comprehensively from the spatial type of center, edge and orientation, river and road, as well as public area.
Xu et al. (Sun,) studied this question.