Northern Shaanxi The Mizhi Cave Ancient City Residential Settlement Pattern Studies

The cave dwelling construction is in the Chinese tradition construction the most ecology, simplest, one of the most adaptation, most user friendly types, especially ecology and sustainable performance most prominent. Regardless of it takes the individual, took the habitation community, all has its unique esthetics value.The present paper to North Shaanxi loess plateau, take the cave dwelling central courtyard as the main body, the cave dwelling common people residence settlement which the agriculture civilized time formed has carried on massive and the exhaustive on-thes-spot investigation and the correlation literature material research. From the geography, the landform, the climate, the ecological environment which its locates and so on the natural environment essential factor as well as the historical humanities background, the commercial condition embark, to its settlement selected location, the settlement shape, the road system, the public building, the construction construction, the courtyard space shape and the building decoration as well as the shape characteristic origin carries on the analysis proof, summarizes its cultural characteristic, explores system construction which its cultural source and course and forms, and unifies the modern people to occupy questions and so on ecology crisis which the environment faces, proposes own rational ponder and the thorough actual exploration.Finally this article also carries on the analysis to the Mizhi cave dwelling old city settlement shape value, proposed the outline protection and the renewal principle and the main point. And makes the analysis to the Mizhi cave dwelling old city traveling prospect and the traveling plan the function layout which divides with tourist area.The hope through this article analysis and the research, explained its value is at, can arouse the more person's interest and the understanding, government department's leader, can in particular as soon as possible raises the cave dwelling old city protection and the restoration work the program, saves these the cultural heritage which vanishes.