Research On Wisdom Experience Of Human Settlements With Shan-Shui Environment In Guilin Historical City

The distinctive human settlement environment formed since the ancient time ofChina boasts strong traditional design concepts towards oriental cities and are built byunique construction methods and wisdom, which develops a school of its own in theglobal city construction history. There are distinctive features in the construction oflandscape of rivers and mountains in the humans settlement environment in the ancientcities of China, which bear important practical meaning and academic meaning tofurther explore the landscape construction theories as well as the design methodstowards the cities in China. The historic city of Guilin, has its unique scenic naturalenvironment and rich historical culture. With thousands of years, it forms classic patternof a scenic city which bears the profound wisdom for the ancient human settlement. Thepaper tries to take the historic city of Guilin as the research subject and the scientifictheories of human settlement environment as the guide to further unearth theconstruction experience and wisdom of the landscape of rivers and mountains in humansettlement environment in the historic city of Guilin, thus having a better knowledge ofthe theories and methods concerning the construction of landscapes of rivers andmountains in the ancient cities of China.In the construction of “scenic cities”, the most important thing is to handle therelationship between human beings and nature. In China, rivers and mountains areusually regarded as the elements of urban composition. In the long course of history, theconcepts about the construction of the landscape of rivers and mountains full of Chinesecharacteristics are gradually formed. Since the ancient time, Guilin is situated in thevital communication line between the south of the five ranges and the central plains, which promotes the formation and evolution of the ancient city of Guilin. The sayings,such as Guilin’s scenery is the best in the world, thousands of mountains surround thebeautiful fields and a river flows in the shape of a circle, are the vivid portrayals of thelandscape of rivers and mountains in Guilin. Taking the science of human settlementenvironment as the theoretical basis, by the research methods of document analysis andfield research, by the systematic research on the human settlement environment of theancient city of Guilin, which has integrated into nature and by analyzing the relationsbetween the elements of morphological evolution of inner and outer city walls, thecharacteristics of urban spatial structures, the pattern of scenic cities, the siting of cities,the axis of cities, landscape architectures&the patterns of rivers and mountains, watersystem landscape as well as landscape construction and landscape environment, thepaper explores the wisdom of construction and historical experience of the landscape ofrivers and mountains in human settlement environment of the historic city of Guilin,thus summarizing the thoughts, lessons and practical experience of long-termaccumulation to make people protect and develop the cities characters consciously withthe hope to promote the researches on the traditional urban space patterns and culturesin a broader sense as well as the foundation of the large system in human settlementenvironment.