Melbourne, the name of this Australian-Chinese city, sounds very literary. But you know what? The origin of the name is full of twists and turns.
The city's original candidacy was odd: Batman (Batmania), copper bear city (Bearbrass), and even mutton city (Lamb)!
It's frightening to think about it. It's just a little short of it. We're going to have this conversation on the occasion of the New year's Day:
"where is the child reading?"
"in mutton city."
"Yo, what's your major? Slaughtering? "
Then, why Melbourne almost had a strange name, please listen to me for you.
Melbourne, in fact, was not discovered until 1835. The first person to get into this area was a farmer from Tasmania, named John Batman,. Yes, you didn't. He was Batman!
The Batman, from today's Port Philip, boarded Melbourne and explored most of the Melbourne area. To commemorate its adventurous spirit, the city was considered to be named Batmania, Batman, or Batman City.
Although the name did not finally pass, today on Collins street, there is a hotel called Batman's Hill to honor the explorer. On the south side of the hotel is the former home of Mr. Batman.
More than that, Victoria has a constituency called Batman, which includes four areas in northern Melbourne, Northcote, Bundoora, Macleod and Preston. Interestingly, however, the district's name is about to be cancelled because Batman, though a discoverer of Melbourne, has massacred many indigenous people as a colonizer and has become a scar in the heart of the latter.
The same year Melbourne was discovered, the city officially began to be built. At the time it was named Bearbrass, literally meaning "copper bear."
But in fact, Melbourne was named Bearbrass, not because there were bronze statues of bears in the city, or because the local people had an extraordinary love for bears, but because the word sounds like Birrarung, is an Australian native language. The river of fog.
So, isn't it very romantic?
(today, on the north bank of Yarra River, there is a park commemorating indigenous culture, called Birrarung Marr).)
But the name, which is both romantic and wild, has been around for only two years. In 1837, Queen Victoria decided to name the city after the prime minister, the second viscount. Unfortunately, the prime minister's last name is Lamb, and you're right. It's mutton. Fortunately, Mr. mutton did not use his last name to name the city. Instead, he used his title, Melbourne, to name the beautiful city.
The title Melbourne, in fact, is the home of Mr. mutton. It first belonged to a small town in (Derbyshire), Derbyshire, England. So, here's the gossip-
Why would Queen Victoria honor the prime minister in such a grand way, regardless of his name to name a city?
Friends who have seen the British play Victoria may be able to answer: because the Queen is in love with him!
Unfortunately, real life is not as romantic as a TV series.
In reality, the Viscount Melbourne was in her fifties when Queen Victoria took over at the age of 18. At that time, he was middle-aged, heavy sleeper, often suddenly asleep in public and snoring loudly.
Melbourne like this, I'm afraid, it's hard to get the girls in the flower season?
However, although they do not develop romantic relationships in reality, they still have deep feelings. After taking over as a young queen, the Melbourne viscount spent four years teaching the queen and giving him life-long political experience.
(William Lamb is teaching Queen Victoria)
The Queen died of her father at an early age, and the daughter of the Viscount Melbourne died. A bereavement, and years together make the relationship between the two men and daughters.
Queen Victoria's diary once wrote, "he's the most honest, great man I've ever seen." It is my luckiest thing to have him in charge of the government. "
Two years before the prime minister's resignation, in 1937, the queen officially named the city Melbourne, two years before the prime minister's resignation, as the prime minister's hometown.
And the same name as Melbourne, to this day is only a small British town of 6500 people, but it not only raised the British prime minister, the second generation of Melbourne viscount William Lamb, also raised Thomas Cook, Also known as the father of modern tourism, I don't know if he came to Melbourne at that time.
(Melbourne, Derbyshire, UK)
It can be said that Melbourne is really lucky to have inherited the name of such a place. And we come to Melbourne together, we are really a group of lucky people.