| Huizhou style folk architecture is an important part of traditional houses in china. Although more and more ancient villages in Huizhou are protected and developed sequentially in recent years, some of folk houses are still lacking of protection and ruined because of large number and widespread. According to present situation in china, it is unreality to protect all the folk houses on their sites. As cases of ex situ conservation of Huizhou style folk houses increased, it rises a hot discussion: ex situ conservation is protection or destruction?According to field research, this paper described the current status of the protection of Huizhou style folk houses , made a study of cases of ex situ conservation, exposed operation of current business reselling, analysis gains and losses of ex situ conservation from architectural, environmental and economic points. As a special conservation, ex situ conservation saves the endangered folk houses, on the other hand, causes damage to cultural values ,so it has a double meaning of positive and negative. Especially in the trading of folk house, it goes to opposite of protection because pursuit of profit, which should be strict controlled by the government.Based on the practice and theory, this paper obtained four aspects of controls of Huizhou style traditional folk house for ex situ conservation,including choice of folk house and operator; record information of the house before and during ex situ conservation; give professional guidance and hierarchical control, protect the skills of folk craftsmen; while relocation is completed, government should urge the users’long-term maintenance of the building. Finally, this paper discussed protection strategies of our traditional folk house form three aspects. |
