The Cultural Interpretation Of Southwest Settlement Patterns

Southwest Regional settlement pattern is the externalization of southwest regional architecture and cultural connotation. Settlement pattern studies should be started when after clarified the relationships among the history, the level and the development of southwest cultural, all of them as well as the origin of the settlement patterns.Southwest China has the complex physical environment, variety of nationalities,which make the southwest culture express heterogeneity and diversity of characteristics. How to cognitive the complicated cultural phenomenons becomes the starting point of this study. Therefore, after defined the related concept, the paper introduces the cultural ecology and hierarchy theory into discuss.From a system theory perspective, with a height which beyond the Han nationality and based on the Southwest Nationalities and Southeast Asia to examine the other spheres outside the Southwest cultural circle as well as to carding all cultural corridors, and cultural distributions throughout the southwest culture circle.After that, have an objective analysis of the subordinate relationship among the spheres in various sub-culture of southwest region,thereby to construct the southwest Cultural Ecology Hierarchy theory system which consists by the sub-cultural ecosystem,cultural ecosystem complex and cultural ecosysytem manifold,and all of these are take the ecological niche as a yardstick.And have an objective understanding of the relationship between the Southwest cultural Species lineages.The existence and development of culture is not static. If the South-West cultural and ecological hierarchy theory is a static analysis of southwest culture and species, then, in the third chapter stresses the "dynamic" way of thinking. Treat the national migration, cultural exchanges on Business Lines , Religious Communications and military migrations as the "cultural ecological chain" of culture species in southwest, Discusses the bleaching product and evolution of south-west cultural on the chain during the historical period. In order to reveal the Southwest culture's structure of network relationships between the vertical and horizontal two-latitude regions.Land as a culture, not only the material basis for people's survival, but also as the roots of settlement patterns of southwest area. This paper, Described the formation of many cultural factors based on Material, spiritual and institutional attributes of land culture, and have a detailed analysis of the relevance between them and the settlement patterns of southwest region.Paper based on the cultural ecology theory of southwest, Starting from the point of view of sub-culture ecosystem, divid the southwest settlements into variety of types such as clan settlements, economic settlements, religious settlements, military defense settlement and folk settlements and so on, and use the method of landscape ecology that is Plaque- Matrix - Corridor - border patterns, combined with invasion, mutation, selection, competition, adaptation, succession and other ecological characteristics during the process of cultural drift accumulation and evolution.Multi-angle interpretation of southewest settlement patterns with comparative methods. Expand the study to the aspacts of protection and renewal in Southwest regional settlement, the new order of Southwest regional architectural culture and architectural design inspiration and so on.