| As an important carrier of Lingnan culture,the traditional settlements in Lingnan Waterfront contain rich historical and cultural values.However,for a long time,the research on the protection of the traditional settlements in Lingnan Waterfront mostly started from the individual settlements,focusing on the physical space of settlements,and ignoring the relationship between settlements and other settlements,and between settlements and the surrounding natural environment.Under the influence of industrialization and rapid urbanization,the cultural ecological space of the traditional settlements and the cultural heritage of the Waterfront in Lingnan are faced with various threats and challenges.To explore the cultural ecology of lingnan region of traditional settlements group of characteristics and to reveal the cultural heritage protection present situation,this article focuses on the typical traditional settlements concentrated area,the typical traditional settlement group of cultural ecology characteristic partitions,with one of the typical partition-almond altar water as an empirical case,discusses the cultural ecology of lingnan region of traditional settlements group of features,On the basis of this,the cognitive system of cultural heritage of traditional settlements in Xingtan Waterfront is constructed.At the same time,the study also made a detailed study of the current situation of cultural heritage protection and the spatial division of cultural heritage in Xingtan Waterfront.Finally,according to the cultural heritage protection problems of the traditional settlements in Xingtan Waterfront and the spatial zoning of cultural heritage,the paper puts forward the specific protection ideas and strategies.In this paper,the main conclusions are: first,the typical traditional settlements concentrated area affected by flood pressure,landscape,natural environment,agricultural production and the influence of such factors as economic development,cultural fusion,has formed many rich natural geographical features and cultural ecological feature of traditional settlements,including west,north,east three rivers,the influence of drainage network the most deep;Second,the typical traditional settlement group is the product of the combination of human settlements and the natural environment,the settlement of the ecological characteristics and cultural heritage value not only reflect on the settlement of artificial material in the space,also reflected in the core groups on the periphery of the natural ecological space,at the same time,economic and cultural exchanges between the settlement and settlement is to maintain the important internal factors of traditional settlements group;Third,in the context of rapid urbanization,the protection of the cultural heritage of the traditional settlements in Lingnan Waterfront faces many challenges,which are mainly reflected in the erosion of the natural environment of the settlements,the destruction of the style and integrity of artificial structures,the decline of the traditional commercial and economic system,and the hindered development of folk culture activities.However,the existing protection plans and measures mainly focus on the individual protection of the physical space of the settlements.At the regional level,the traditional settlements in Lingnan Waterfront lack relevant and targeted protection plans and measures.Fourth,this paper uses Arc GIS to quantify and visualize the cultural heritage value of the traditional settlements in Xingtan Waterfront.Combined with the natural ecology,artificial construction,economic production and folk culture characteristics,Xingtan Waterfront is divided into six cultural sub-areas,which lays a data foundation for the proposal of protection strategy.Fifth,this paper presents a group of traditional settlements area as a whole the whole protection protection,human and culture environment,space division division classification based on cultural heritage protection such as the three major strategies,through targeted strategy,development of lingnan group of cultural heritage of traditional settlements in order to provide the effective reference,also hope to provide help to the protection of the traditional settlements of other regions. |