The Research Of Huizhou Traditional Village Group

In the past few decades,the research of Huizhou traditional village had experienced the development process from residential dwelling to rural village.The study had mainly focused on the two sides with single building and village form,with the less attention paid to the village group relatively.Research on Huizhou traditional villages can be traced back to the series of surveying and mapping of Huizhou traditional residential dwelling.In 1953,Liu Dunzhen investigated traditional dwellings and ancestral temples in She County,while in 1954 Zhang Zhongyi studied Huizhou traditional dwellings of the Ming Dynasty in She County,Jixi County and Xiuning County,as reported in Huizhou Dwellings of Ming Dynasty.Vernacular architecture in Huizhou has shifted from the original recording to the description of historical existence.After the 1960 s,the research on vernacular architecture in Huizhou region had been no longer limited to one prefecture and six counties,while the surrounding areas had been concerned.During the Cultural Revolution,Huizhou research were relatively stagnant.Until the 1980 s,the focus of Huizhou research had been changed into the protection and development of traditional villages instead of focusing on individual buildings.Vernacular architecture research group,composed of Chen Zhihua and other scholars from the School of Architecture,Tsinghua University,had studied Huizhou traditional villages with the western architecture research methods.While Gong Kai and other scholars from the School of Architecture,Southeast University,had inherited the empirical investigation method of the Society for the Study of Chinese Architecture,and combined the surveying and mapping with architectural course on Huizhou traditional villages.Since the 1990 s,the team had carried out a series of relevant researches on Huizhou traditional villages,especially from the perspective of village group,and learned the architectural connotation and humanistic inheritance of Huizhou traditional village group.Based on human aspect and environmental aspect,Huizhou traditional village with a traditional clan social structure is not an isolated individual.Thus,the study of traditional village from group perspective is the further research attempt of vernacular architecture in Huizhou region from the widened scope of Huizhou circle.Considering consanguineous inhabitants,similar geography and social ideologies,villages have developed gradually and clans who inhabited in have moved away from the initial village and built new villages nearby.As time passes,one village splits into several villages.Village group refers to several villages gathering together with arranged layout,spatial linkage and regional maintenance during certain period and region,which forming the organic agglomeration morphology with the consideration of Inhabitant,Land,and Village.With the enlarged group perspective,this study has attempted to reveal the layout connection and maintenance between villages in the village group,as well as the spatial structure prototype.Taking five batches of national traditional villages as basic statistical samples,this study focuses on the classification and quantification.From broad perspective of the relationships in-between developmental evolution,regional maintenance and rural group,it concludes the evolution,maintenance and prototype of spatial structure.This article consists eight parts:Chapter I,Introduction.This chapter mainly expounds some basic concepts involved in Huizhou traditional village research from research origin,research background,research significance and research object.It also reveals some specific operations involved in huizhou traditional village research from research purpose,research method,research overview and research framework.Chapter II,From village gathering to village group.This chapter mainly discusses village origin and village group formation.And it also reveals that Village group is the inevitable trend of village gathering in groups.Chapter III,Origin and evolution of Huizhou traditional village group.This chapter mainly has been focused on formation process,development model,space definition and maintenance elements.From the perspective of stable region and historical evolution,it has simulated the historical vicissitude of Huizhou and Huizhou traditional village.Chapter IV,Graphical representation of Huizhou traditional village group.This chapter mainly intends to involve in Huizhou traditional village research with the mapping of architectural drawing(Village residential drawing,Surveying and mapping drawing and Cognitive mapping).Through the analysis of group gathering elements,inter-village space and villagers’ activities,the spatial concept which expressed in these architectural drawings has been extracted and analyzed.Chapter V,Spatial arrangement of Huizhou traditional village group.This chapter mainly starts with the discussing of spatial arrangement from the human settlement perspective based on introvert centripetal force and extrovert resisting force.Then it interprets the spatial arrangement of Huizhou traditional village group with the spatial elements,spatial layout and spatial distribution,which revealing 10 spatial structure prototypes of Huizhou traditional village group under three categories.Chapter VI,Sustainable construction of traditional village based on group patterns.This chapter mainly has refined the new model of traditional village construction(so called group patterns making)from the viewpoint of maintenance in-between inhabitant,land and village,which also including horizontal place-making region and vertical tectonic culture.Chapter VII,Thoughts and revelation of village group research.This chapter tentatively puts forward the bi-directional research system establishment based on Huizhou traditional village group with the upstream extended to village field,indigenous region and dialect Area as well as with the downstream extended to dwelling house,village space and spatial group patterns.Chapter VIII,Conclusion.This chapter has systematically summarized the research of Huizhou traditional village group,which also could provide valuable information for the preservation and development of traditional village with the overall perspective of group patterns.In conclusion,the research of traditional village group is a complementary promotion compared with the research of traditional village.On the one hand,it completes the lack of village research in this field,and on the other hand,it clarifies the spatial prototype,formation and maintenance of village group.It is helpful to establish a complete set of adaptive sustainable system for the preservation and development of Huizhou traditional villages,which providing the supplement with the significance of innovation and reference for the study on Huizhou traditional villages.214,500 Words approximately,150 Figures and Tables.