Preliminary Study on the Characteristics of the Traditional Village Space in Chongqing Tujia Village in Qianjiang

DOI

10.2991/icadce-16.2016.151How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Tujia village; traditional country; space characteristic; courtyard; landscape; architecture

Abstract

Tujia is a nation with a long history in China. Tujia traditional village in Chongqing pays more attention to "harmony of man with nature" in the landscape pattern of the site, with seven elements like " Mountains, forests, fields, roads, water, villages", and in the courtyard space, there are some space adapting to terrain like stilts, the architecture like the word "-", "L", "U" surrounding a typical courtyard of Tujia architecture. In landscape space, clustering round the beauty of the natural beauty of the canyon, the village gate, boasting, stilts and some national characteristic architectures had constituted the important scenery factor, and mountains, roads, water systems, orchards, farmland has constitute the free and unit landmark landscape of Tujia. Because of the unique mountain canyon topography, Tujia villages has been built along the Banjia-stresm upstream, and become a multi group band distributed characteristics. Tujia village building consists by traditional houses like stilts, and there are central room with most characteristic, and the fire spread before bedroom, and wing-room with stilts, and derived-rooms which can satisfy the need of human. The rapid economic development bring an international trend had made it imminent to collect, arrange, protect and inherit the nation building culture. Tujia traditional village is a kind of unique cultural resources, study on the deep national cultural heritage in Tujia Qianjiang Chongqing can transmit the spatial characteristics in Fengshui location, courtyard space, landscape space and architectural space. Recording them by pictures and texts can cause important practical significance in the arrangement and development of national architectural culture, protect ion of national culture and develop characteristic regional architecture. I would like to this article, to arouse attention from more people, protect and promote the construction of the Tujia villages.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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AU  - Xiaomeng Lou
AU  - Ying Meng
AU  - Qian Wang
AU  - Jin Yang
AU  - Kangcai Nie
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BT  - Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Arts, Design and Contemporary Education
PB  - Atlantis Press
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