A Study Of The Construction Pattern Of Modern Villages Based On Traditional Environmental Ethics

China is an agricultural country traditionally, the countryside being its prime inhabitancy configuration. The villages have been the root of its civilization and the carrier of ethics. Affected by the wave of urbanization, the villages and the ethics developed in it are gravely threatened. The disappearance of conventional villages, the destruction of its form and the worsening living condition are all undermining the basis for the development of the rural area.The thesis explores the influence of physical form (i.e. the environment, the land system, the principles of feng shui, the religion, the customs and behavioural habits) and unphysical environmental ethics on the settlement pattern and the construction of villages, based on the systematic review of the researches on the construction of it and traditional ethics home and abroad. Due to the complexity of various factors influencing the rural settlement, it focuses on the environmental ethics and the construction of villages in Naxi Nationality with the theory of traditional environmental ethics, from which the author puts forward the modern approach to the construction of it.Focusing on Hongshan Village of Lijiang City, Yunnan Province, it puts forth the enforcement of details of environmental ethics and requirements for prime technology and conducts an empirical research on the construction pattern raised by the author after discriminating. I want to find out the problems with modern rural planning and propose the strategy for the sustainable development there.The thesis consists of six parts with Chapter One introducing background, significance and method for the research; Chapter Two analyses the factors affecting the rural construction according to the traditional environmental ethics; Chapter Three discusses physical and unphysical ethics in the construction of villages in Naxi Nationality, together with how to set up an ensured system to inherit the conventional theories there; harmony-oriented overall layout and organically growing of settlement pattern are proposed in Chapter Four, as well as public systems guided adroitly by circumstances and mutualism of blankness and fullness in the construction of villages. Chapter Five initializes the construction plan for Hongshan Village based on the theories set forth in the previous chapter. The ending chapter presents a review of the current environment of Naxi Nationality and its prospects.