| Traditional settlements in Zhejiang as the Zhejiang unique historical architecture culture, has a rich and long history, in the Zhejiang special geographical environment with the development. Settlement and the district interact each other during thousands of years, through dynasties, with the change of environment and the way of life, from the first human settlement eventually developed into a regional characteristics of traditional settlement culture. Based on nearly100Zhejiang traditional settlements, the discussion is mainly on historical and geographical relations, historical and geographical distribution of settlements, size, morphology, development process and function influence. Derived from the research we want to get more protection enlightenment of the traditional settlements. |