Research On Imagery Of Ancient Town In Southeast Chongqing

Southeastern Chongqing lies on the branch mountain of Mount Wuling, where Chongqing municipality and Huibei province lie on each other. Since ancient time, the basin of Wu River and You River has been known as its glorious environment and material prosperity; Minorities, mainly Tujia minority and Han nationality have been living and working happily and having off springs there. Locating at the boundary of three provinces and one municipality, southeastern Chongqing was endowed the unique culture of boarder towns and sight pattern based on towns with fairs by the prosperous trade between the boarder districtsThe Han nationality and its culture migrating from the east contributed to the cultural variety of the nationalities in southeastern Chongqing. The architectural style, aesthetic consciousness and religious custom of Han nationality merged into the sights and culture of ancient towns in southeastern Chongqing. Because of the particular environment and historical and cultural background, the sights of ancient towns in southeastern Chongqing reflect some unique characteristics of sights and their cultural conceptions.Through the notion of imaginary, this article studies the area characteristics of the sights of ancient towns and the elements consisting of them. By supposing the similar elements and characteristics of imaginary exist under the condition that the ancient towns in southeastern Chongqing were under the same historical and cultural background and in the same natural environment, the article carried out related survey and research and concluded the common characteristics and elements of the imaginary of the sights in the ancient towns in southeastern Chongqing. First, the result of the questionnaires and the analysis of related data reflect that the unified or similar imaginary of the sights did exist in the ancient towns in the southeastern Chongqing. By analyzing, the elements of the sights in the ancient towns in southeastern Chongqing can be generalized as three parts:natural sights, manmade sights and cultural sights, which are specifically divided into 8 kinds:natural landscape, road system, residence, cultural relic and historical sites, agricultural sights, folk-custom, religion, living and labouring. Among them, natural landscape belongs to the category of natural sights, road system, residence, cultural relic and historical sites, agricultural sights belongs to that of manmade sights, and the rest to that of cultural sights. The eight kinds of sights and the geographical elements included in it consist of the entire imaginary of sights in the ancient towns in southeastern Chongqing together with cultural conceptions.Second, through analyzing the geographical conditions in southeastern Chongqing, the particular historical source and the construction of national culture of the ancient towns in southeastern Chongqing, it is discussed which natural environmental elements contributed to the appearance and development of the sights of the ancient towns in southeastern Chongqing and their historical and cultural conceptions.Based on the previous research and analysis, the article concluded the unique imaginary of the sights in the ancient towns in the southeastern Chongqing, which is generalized into 5 kinds:the imaginary of landscape, the imaginary of Diaojiaolou, the imaginary of the streets paved with flagstones, the imaginary of countryside, and the imaginary of cultural sights.based on the study of the imaginary of the ancient towns in the southeastern Chongqing, the question of how to protect and develop the sights of the ancient towns under the guidance of the studies of imaginary is raised, as well as the study of how to protect and develop the sights of the ancient towns on the basis of finding some way to estimate the imaginary of the ancient towns, so as to guide the protection and layout of the sights of the ancient towns and put forward methods and strategies of protecting and developing the ancient towns in the southeastern Chongqing based on the characteristics of the imaginary of the sights in the ancient towns in southeastern Chongqing.The survey, research and analysis of the imaginary of the sights in the ancient towns can reflect the unique regional characteristics of the sights of the ancient towns and discover the historical and cultural conceptions of the ancient towns. It works well especially in the aspect of studying cultural sights in the ancient towns. The study of the imaginary of the sights in the ancient towns in southeastern Chongqing aims at arousing people's concern about them, providing guidance to related research and layout.