The Research Of Guangxi Traditional Zhuang Villages And Residences

Zhuang and their ancestors lives and breeds in southern China-the Pearl River Basin,they are the first indigenous in Guangxi and the whole Lingnan region and they also are oneof the nation which moves little in Chinese history. Zhuang had experienced independentdevelopment in Qin in ancient times, from the Qin and Han dynasties to the Republic ofChina under the control of central government with other ethnic minorities until the foundingof the People's Republic of Chinae. In the course of cultural development, Zhuang hadexperienced "live with other nation","co-existence with Bai Yue","the JimiSystem","the chieftain system","Chieftain flow"introduced by the SuccessiveCentral thereby causing the formation of their cultural integration, and formed its owncultural characteristics. Zhuang traditional settlements and residential areas as the Zhuangcultural heritage and changing carrier considerable significance are very imortant for thestudy of Zhuang social history and culture, and revealing the mutual influence between theculture of the Zhuang and other ethnic groups.For a long time, as ethnic minorities which highly localized by Han, the Zhuangtraditional settlement of the residential building has not been payed attention corrrespondedwith its population.Moreover because of its multi-inhabited by other ethnic minorities makingtheir own cultural identity has not been fully Discrimination and mining, this is also thedifficulty of this study.From the point of view of ethnology, natural geography and human geography, based ona comprehensive analysis of the humanities and the natural background of the ZhuangAutonomous Region, the settlement pattern, architecture system architecture type as the basisfor the classification of the cultural circle of the genus, divided it into four partitions,they arethe northwest Guangxi pile dwelling area, the western and Southwest Guangxi pile dwellingarea, the western and central Guangxi secondary pile dwellingr area the esatern Guangxi landhabitable zone. At the same time, summed up the real reason of the partition of architecturalculture is the terrain, climate and vegetation, ethnic groups and customs, watershed andcultural spread of many aspects of differences.Based on the architectural culture partition, this paoer analysised the differences andsimilarities of the Zhuang traditional settlements in different partition, classifly summarriedspatial patterns, spatial intent and public buildings and contrasted Zhuang with the Dong andHan to clearance of its characteristics. From the spatial patterns, structural features, thefacade features to study and contrast the details of the characteristics of the four district residential buildings, to grasp the Zhuang traditional residential architecture genetic, analysisof the the many differences in nationg groups, construction techniques and culturaldissemination which behind the differences of outsides, and analyzes the evolution of theZhuang residential.The paper also comprehensively summaried the Decorative arts, the culture ofconstruction and construction experience of the traditional houses of the Zhuang. On theother hand, the paper also sum up the significance of traditional settlements and residentialprotection and development, and make a summary of the protection and developmen of thetraditional settlements in Guangxi, and ultimately made the the principles and strategiesprovided for the buliders and researchers.