The Research Of Lijiang Dayan Ancient Town As A Traditional Settlement

As a place for dwelling, traditional settlement has rich meanings in different aspects in a certain period, region, race, and society. The natural and social environment of the traditional settlement influenced or even determined its external appearance. For our subject, studying traditional settlement is an exploration and inheritance to traditional architectural thoughts and methods, and hence have important theoretic and practical significance.The research object of this thesis is Dayan ancient town in Lijiang region of Yunnan Province, a traditional settlement of the Naxi nationality.This thesis contains seven chapters. Chapter one is an introduction, which presents the definition of traditional settlement, the reasons for taking Dayan ancient town as my research object, the contents and range of my research, the research methods, and the research frame of the thesis.Chapter two to chapter seven is the main body of the thesis. It is divided into four parts, in which I discuss the forming background, internal forming mechanism, external physical appearance, and inheritance and development to the architectural culture of Dayan ancient town respectively.The first part of the main body is Chapter two, which gives a comprehensive analysis of the forming background of Dayan ancient town. In this chapter, I point out the location of Lijiang Region and Dayan in the first place, and then analyze the natural environment of Dayan from different angles including physiognomy, climate, biologic resources and tour resources. After it, I study the cultural and social environment of Dayan by the introduction of the ethnologic structure, faith, traditional culture, regime, and folk-custom in this area, which set a background to the following discussion.Chapter three acts as the second part of the main body, which studies the internal forming mechanism of Dayan ancient town. In this chapter, I first point out that Dayan's external appearance is a result of the mutual efforts of politics, economy, religion and culture. Secondly, I analyze the evolution of Dayan, i.e. the main determinants of the town's development in different periods and their effects on the changes of the town's appearance. After it I explain Dayan's humanistic connotation and its evolution, i.e. the town's characteristics created by different types of culture.