This article focuses on the place names in Oracle bone characters. We specially pay attention to Oracle bone place names “functional”. This paper absorbs former existing research results, comprehensively analyzes of Oracle bone place names according to the context and refers to scholars “Function-oriented” classification criteria. The function of Oracle bone place includes worship, hunting, military, agriculture, administration and construction. Different literae humaniores activities are carried out in different functional places. The functional anysis of places can help us to understand humaniores activities at Oracal bone period.

The purpose of this study is to approach for the flow analysis of changing central-place functions and basic demands between the central city and the small town. Under the rural society progressed, this study examines how the small town changes in the relation to the central city. The subject of study is based on changes in demand for retail and hospitality. The small town is providing basic demands and urban services primary for the rural in the settlement system. Because of the rural depopulation and the aging of society, Retail and hospitality in the rural is reducing of the facility followed. But the majority of related researches are stocks approach. These studies are useful to find out the characteristic of small town, but is difficult to consider the influence of the central city. In this situation after this study using the function index is set up a concept model, it examines for the basis of changes in demand for the small town. The result of the analysis is that the changes of retail and hospitality are more severe in the more small town than in the central city. Whereas the small town with a population decline is consistent with the reduced number of branches, Population growth in the central city is reduced to the number of the Number of branches. The central-place function has been strengthened in the central city. While the younger generation, recreation, etc. related retail are disappearing rapidly, the mainstream of small town is grocery, home improvement, restaurants.