The Features Of Wenchang Overseas Chinese Local Residential Houses Under The Influence Of Nanyang Culture

Hainan island is always regarded as a wonderland with beautiful natural scenery, and primitive simple style custom of minority in Hainan enjoys a high reputation all over the country. Since 2010, the "ecological province" policy has been developed to "Hainan international tourism island" policy which is national key project. The development of hainan unique natural landscape and hainan minority resources are seen to be of primary importance. However, today, science and technology are advanced, multi-cultural co, local culture is particularly valuable.Local residential houses is an important part of Chinese construction type which is closely related to people’s life, and throughout the history of mankind. During the thousands of years of recorded Chinese history, in modern period, the modern residential houses presented a blend of Chinese and western styles and a overall appearance in the special historical period. Due to the many ethnics have been moving to Hainan island gradually led to Hainan cultural, a integration of a variety of cultural. Therefore, Hainan local residential houses have an internal relation and continuity with Chinese traditional residential houses, and reflects the local custom or peculiarity. Wenchang modern residential houses in Hainan represents the brief but brilliant achievements of Hainan modern local-style residential houses.Wenchang is a famous hometown of overseas Chinese in Hainan, Nanyang region is most overseas Chinese gathered area, overseas Chinese due to the perennial struggle life in Nanyang, receiving the western new construction thought, and due to leave far away from home, having a profound identity of the motherland culture. After overseas Chinese return to their homeland in full glory, then they built house which reflected two architectural culture on the overseas Chinese local residential houses. Wenchang overseas Chinese local residential houses embodies the Chinese traditional architectural culture as skeleton, and take the characteristic of the architectural culture of Nanyang as appearance. Under the influence of Nanyang culture, Wenchang modern overseas Chinese local residential houses are important supplement of the Chinese traditional architecture type, enriched the content of the residence in Hainan.This paper will treats through the literature research, survey research, interdisciplinary research, comparative study, such as research methods, combined with the human geography, cultural anthropology and folklore multidisciplinary knowledge. From Hainan overseas Chinese history, culture, social, political, etc, this paper is trying to clarify the features of Wenchang overseas Chinese local residential houses under the influence of Nanyang culture. From aspects of the natural geographical environment, cultural historical evolution, compared with characteristics of Minnan local-style residential houses and the Lingnan local-style residential houses, and to explore the causes of this residence type and influencing factors., reflect the uniqueness of Wenchang modern overseas Chinese local-style residential houses.