Time And Space Tibet Rural Residential Areas

Beginning in2006, the Tibet region vigorously implement "Housing project" in order to rebuild rural housing, to settle the nomads and to construct the poverty, which focusing on Tibetan farmers and herdsmen."Housing project" as a breakthrough and the starting point of a new socialist rural construction in Tibet. This article takes "Housing project" as the key cutting time point,explains the formation of rural villages and residential space in Tibet,and the cultural significance of these spaces, also explains its way of life of local people and the economic base, ideology, worldview and cosmology of this way of life.For this proposition, the author uses a bottom-up research approach which from the building as a beginning to find the characters of the research subjects on the basis of a large number of field work, in order to explore the regional cultural identity of the Tibetan villages and buildings, as well as in the background of social history, the changes of Tibetan villages and buildings and how to adapt to the changes.From "house" to "village","village" to "cultural area" is actually the progressive relationship from small to big, from the bottom layer to up.Through8chapters of the description,the author gives a in-depth discussions of the Tibetan houses, villages, and the "Horizon" of the Tibetan culture area in order to make people have a deeper understanding of the Tibetan architectural culture, and this is also the supplement to deficiencies of academic study.The specific contexts are as follow:Chapter1:Introduction. Explains the the topics reason, reviews the theories and researches on Chinese traditional houses, and combes the researches of the Tibetan-inhabited areas residential areas and villages, which leads to the author's research innovation and research priorities.Chapter2: Research framework and research methods. This chapter uses the architecture of "buildings-village-cultural regions", from small to big,gives a depth analysis of rural residential areas in Tibet. The author also uses empirical analysis of research methods to collect data, analyze data, and to describe the various cultural phenomena and interpretation. Chapter3: The historical and cultural background of survey points. In this section, the survey points in which the natural environment, administrative divisions as well as human social environment is described in detail.Chapter4:Tibet rural residential type and construction. This chapter takes Naga village for an example, through an overview of the field of quantitative and qualitative data, makes an overview of the vector space of rural buildings in Tibet, architectural events, housing rituals and taboos.Chapter5:Traditional village space and historical memory. This chapter expands the"building"to the "village",and takes space and memory as the two variables to understand the villages history, Traditional village form, and that the layout of the Naga village space and village history and reality are reflected in this chapter.Chapter6: The architectural culture changes of Tibetan-inhabited areas. This chapter describes the changes in living conditions of farmers and herdsmen,the traditional folk architecture and cultural region, showing the changes of the architectural culture of Tibetan-inhabited areas.Chapter7: The cultural interpretation of the space. The relationship between residential and kinship, residential and belief, residential and symbols, residential and cosmology, etc., is the focus of discussion in this chapter.Chapter8:Conclusion. Review the entire article, reflect on the inadequacies of the paper, and the focus of future research prospects.The interpretation of this article, in order to have a deeper understanding of "house" in social anthropology. Because of cultural immersion, the house is no longer a relationship among the people, but has the obvious personality traits.The house in the majority of agricultural areas of the Tibet Autonomous Region, containing such characteristics, its changes reflect the social and cultural changes in Tibet;but along with the impact of modernization, Tibetan traditional culture is also quietly changing and its adaptability is also growing.