Study On The Protection Of Traditional Villages In Southeast Chongqing From The Perspective Of Cultural Geography

Traditional villages are treasures of Chinese farming civilization and they carry precious rural memories.However,under the irreversible urbanization process,traditional villages are caught in the contradiction between protection and development.Finding a new way of protection is vital to the fate of traditional villages.Meanwhile,due to the special geographical environment and historical evolution,many traditional villages with unique local ethnic characteristics was founded in Southeast Chongqing.It is a precious sample for studying the generation and development of traditional villages.Based on the perspective of cultural geography,this paper takes 104 traditional villages in Southeast Chongqing as the research object.Using the interdisciplinary technical methods of urban and rural planning and cultural geography,this paper first studies the regional background of Southeast Chongqing.Secondly this paper determines the types and attributes of cultural-geographic factors of traditional villages.Then delimit the cultural zoning of traditional villages in Southeast Chongqing by superimposing the spatial distribution of cultural-geographic factors and relevant influencing factors.Finally this paper puts forward the protection strategies at the regional level and village level from the perspective of cultural geography.This paper focuses on the following five aspects:(1)Topic selection and background research.Through the definition of the topic selection background,research purpose and significance,research scope and research object,we can have a general view of the research content and direction of this paper.Then studying on the review of relevant research both home and abroad,we can summarize the comments.This process help us sort out the logical context,build a research framework,and lay the foundation for subsequent research.(2)Background research of the research area.This paper analyzes the characteristics of natural environment,historical environment and current village space in Southeast Chongqing from three aspects: cultural ecology,cultural communication and cultural landscape.Trying to find the source and development mechanism of cultural characteristics in Southeast Chongqing.(3)Construction of cultural-geographic database.The cultural-geographic factors are selected respectively under three systems of cultural ecology,cultural communication and cultural landscape.Including nine categories: village landform,village site selection,village orientation,village age,village ethnic group,group relationship,spatial form,environmental elements and residential types.Then through field investigation and literature collection,the type attributes of each cultural-geographic factor of 104 villages are counted one by one.The database of cultural-geographic factors of traditional villages is constructed by using GIS data analysis platform.With this platform,we can analyz the quantitative relationship and spatial distribution characteristics of nine cultural-geographic factors of traditional villages.And it is intuitively expressed in the form of geographical atlas.(4)Traditional village cultural Regionalization.Three cultural-geographic factors of are selected as the leading factors,concluding village form,village ethnic group and residential type.And we use the leading factor method and multi factor superposition method,supplemented by the historical geography method.This paper divides three cultural zones of traditional villages in Southeast Chongqing.(5)Protection strategies from the perspective of Cultural Geography.This paper explores the Enlightenment of the concept of cultural geography to the protection of traditional villages.We take the four research systems of cultural geography as the starting point,aiming to meet the five revitalization requirements of rural revitalization.This paper constructs a traditional village protection framework based on "cultural geography",and then Puts forward specific strategies for the protection of traditional villages in Southeast Chongqing from the two levels of region and village.Using the perspective of cultural geography,this paper can build a macro perspective and unify the attribute factors of traditional villages,which is helpful to better understanding the regional commonness.In the mean time,this paper makes up for the lack of perspective on the overall protection of traditional villages,and enriches the research results of traditional villages in Southeast Chongqing to a certain extent.It is also expected to provide some reference significance for future protection and development.