Study Of The Traditional Settlement Pattern Based On The Community Structure

The traditional settlement is accomplished through people's settling down. The human relation in society promotes the aggregation and separation of different settlement's space, and accelerates the differentiation, integration and development of the community. Shown by the traditional settlement life style and interpersonal relationships, as well as people's lives by relying on the emotional scenes, full of traditional culture, the essence of living, life experience is a precious legacy of long-term accumulation. It has an important significance for the construction of the human settlements to explore the potential deep structure of daily life and the mutually prompt law of social space and physical spaces base on the way of researching the structure of the community to understand the traditional society.The study of settlement should not only concern about the relationship between the space and its environment, but also should pay particular attention to their inhabitants'relationships and their daily life. In this thesis, two key organizations of community, the clan and worship circle were selected for exploring the interaction between social development process and the changes of settlement patterns from a perspective of"social-spatial process". Drawing on the method and theory of anthropology, the paper try to analysis Chinese traditional settlement patterns through field investigation, mapping and documents sorting out.Based on reviewing theoretical progress about the research in the settlement pattern of many subjects, such as phenomenon, geography, anthropology, sociology and sciences of human settlements at home and abroad, the paper established the theoretical framework of this study. Through ascending development history of human settlement, the paper explained the significance of the god of the land in the process of the formation of the settlement and the integration of community.Two factors in community, the consanguinity and folk belief, are important for China's traditional settlement. The traditional clan settlements, influenced by the clan organizations in Space layout, organization-level, building form and decoration, are configured to an orderly space. On the other hand, people's daily life was infiltrated by the folk belief and rites. Distinct levels of the worship circle come into different scale community to ensure that the community was in reasonable scale and identifiable. A quantitative analysis of worship circle population of Foshan, Guangdong Province is made for supporting the contemporary theory of building community-level. The paper pointed out that the Chinese traditional settlement integrated the God's "Habitat" and the secular "Domain", which constitute the daily life of the Chinese, and build Chinese traditional settlement concept of domain.Thinking of the lost of community tradition in contemporary human settlements, the dissertation presents some inheritance strategies for the traditional settlement patterns, such as the continuation of the multi-levels, ambiguity and territoriality of community space, so as to rebuild the community sphere of ritual ceremony, create a new modern communities throughout space domain, and achieve mankind's Poetic Dwelling.