Protection And Development Of Yunnan Traditional Villages

Villages are formerly known as the clan of ethnic settlements. Under the certain geographic environment and spatial dependence, the clans with the same or similar livelihood, tribal production mode gradually differentiate into various settlement groups of scales, fields of villages initially formed, and have been a natural process of human development. China is a national state with thousands of years of traditional agriculture development history, while farming civilization is the foundation of Chinese civilization came into being, farming economy is the mainstay of traditional Chinese society and economy, agrarian ideology is the root of Chinese people’s thought. In the agrarian ideology system, the felling a person residing away from home eventually returns to his native soil roots, so that the backbone of national culture, Chinese traditional villages are drawn much attention.Traditional village is also known as the nation’s memory. It is the cell of society, a microcosm of Chinese folk culture, the root of our nation. Traditional village is the renamed appellation of the previous ancient village, it is mainly referring to the villages constructed before Republic of China founded, which retained a larger history, that is to say, the built environment, architectural style, village location didn’t change too much, it has unique folk or customs. Although built long years ago, the villages still serve people so far. Under the promotion of economic globalization, modernization, new urbanization and other external forces, traditional villages are squeezed to the modern and historical border, foreign culture are eroding the traditional culture of the village, the residents lived there generations by generations are not confident in their own culture, which has accelerated the decline and demise of traditional village culture and material object. The protection and development process of traditional villages are affected by national policies and regulations, also within the changes in external political and economic environment, stakeholder demands occur volatility and transformation.This Master’s thesis is based on three batches of Chinese traditional villages Directory released by Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development of the People’s Republic of China website in 2012,2013,2014, keeps a foothold in Yunnan, selected Leju Village,in Kunming and Nuodeng Village, in Dali as fields, mainly narrates the protection and development history of traditional villages under the control of national policies, and the analysis of the actual contradictions and conflicts encountered during the implementation, furthermore ultimately propose the author’s thoughts on traditional villages conservation and development. The whole paper takes traditional villages conservation policy in the background of modernization as carding facts, takes the contradictions and gaps between policy formulation and the concreted implementation as the main content, focus on the gambling relations of four stakeholders in traditional villages to spread on discussion. Finally, the author hold the view that the protection of traditional villages and its people are actually the protection of the natural environment, material objects and cultural protection, it continued the ancestral bloodline and confirmed the continuation of emotional sustenance, the root of culture carried by traditional villages, as well as the continuation of the nostalgia is the historical context and culture elements, in which throughout the protecting, developing and grasping.