The Cultural Analysis Of Dong People Village's Space Formation

The study of space in the field of anthropology concludes that the space is not only the geographically platform and the physically vessel, but also the products of the human motivation and the environment or the linguistic environment. At the same time, all kinds of space mechanisms built by humans have closely related with human society.The Dong is one of the ethnic groups with long history in South China. In the Dong's village, the construction of their personal houses and the public architectures such as drum building, Fengyu Bridge etc., have created the integrated space with ethnic characteristics. Currently, the research on the Dong's architecture in academic circle focuses more on its function and technique, but lack of the discussion on the cultural significance of the space formation. The dissertation intends to take the research of cultural meaning of the Dong Minority village's space formation as a breakthrough point to record the formation process of the rural space and the relative ethnic tradition by describing in detail the Dong's private and public space. By comparison, the dissertation summarizes the characteristics of the Dong's t space formation, for example, they show their interest in constructing public space and make every effort in creating harmonious living space, and so on. In addition, it is pointed out that the formation of the rural space not only embodies the environmental concept about how to make use of the best geographical condition for people's life and development, but also shows the Dong's cosmology of harmony.And it also shows that the formation of village space can enhance the cultural identification with the ethnic group themselves, the opening mind and the formation of the Dong's harmonious rural culture.