The Research For The Important Vernacular Architectures Of ChiShui Ancient Town

The Chishui River Area is located in the mountain area of north Guizhou Province, it is at the periphery of Chinese mainstream culture, but it is such a land many culture coexist peacefully with unique local cultural attributes, and one component of it is the Architectural Culture. The vernacular architecture of Chishui Ancient Town is one part of China's traditional vernacular architectural system, for example:local-style residences, halls, ancestral temples, temples, workshops, salt stores and so on. It has multiple forms and unique structures, let us feel deep cultural and regional characteristics. The content of this thesis is making a research of Chishui Ancient Town's vernacular architectures which are representative and relatively intact. The author took the investigation of extant vernacular architecture as the basis and let the analyzing of the vernacular architectures as the principal line, to probe into its regional characteristics. The Paper will set forth from three stratification planes:First aspect described the natural conditions and humanity environment of Chishui Ancient Town's important vernacular architectures. The natural condition was set forth from three aspects:the topographical condition, the climatic conditions and the place building material. And the humanity environment was set forth from The Chishui River area development evolution, the vernacular architecture type and the culture analysis. Second aspect made a classification of Chishui Ancient Town's important vernacular architectures, and then studied its selected location, layout, plane, vertical surface, space, structure, structure, esthetics etc. and summarized the corresponding features finally. Third aspect led an investigation of the protection and flexible utilization of Chishui Ancient Town's important vernacular architectures. It made an introduction and analysis about the current situation and problems of vernacular architectures. On the basis of all above studies, the author put forward his further assumption about the protection and flexible utilization of Chishui Ancient Town's important vernacular architectures.