Xiangxi Autonomous Prefecture Of Furong Town Landscape Image Research

Xiangxi is famous with its charm and miraculous where not only the nature landscape is graceful, but human landscape is unique. Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture is an main concentrated region for minority, particularly the Tujia people, in Hunan province. During thousands of years, regional culture with most south characterist-ics had formed in Xiangxi through continued fusion, accumulation and development of national culture and historical culture.Cultural resources in Xiangxi was embodied concentratedly by historical town, which is a form of cultural heritage. Furong town of Xiangxi, an national history and culture town, once used as filmed place for famous film of "Furong town". An ancient town hanging on waterfall with thousands years of Tujia culture had emerged after long-term accumulation of historical culture, with special mountain settlement pattern and unbroken stream.1.The concept of landscape image was introduced in this paper to study style and features of ancient town. This paper took the Furong town of Xiangxi as object of study, gained first hand data by field investigation, then analyzed the landscape image element spatial morphological characteristics of old town by questionnaire. Landscape elements of Furong town were divided into nature landscape, artificial landscape and human landscape. Besides, landscape spatial pattern was divided into street space, architectural space, node space, water system space and integral space.2.Based on above investigation, this paper analyzed the landscape image of ancient town from two aspects, one was ideal landscape image, another was spatial landscape image. In order to analyzed the preference landscape image of Furong town, investigation content of ideal landscape image perception was divided into "first impression, characteristics of landscape in ancient town, ancient town’s atmosphere, ancient town’s color"and had been compared with each other. Spatial image perception, the behavior of concrete image, was analyzed from space composition and spatial characteristics of landscape image in ancient town. In aspect of space composition of landscape image in ancient town, according to Kevin Lynch’s space image analysis method, this paper divided the five elements of Furong town by point-line-surface and analyzed it one by one. The following conclusion wad listed:(1)A highest agreement rate of image in ancient street area in ancient town, which space function was mainly made of "playing";(2)pubic agrement rate in ancient town where its range around path and boundary was relatively high, paying equal attention to "playing" and "resting";(3)"playing" and "resting" were both included landscape structure and function in ancient town, but emphasis on "resting".After analysis of space composition of landscape image, this paper analyzed the spatial characteristics of landscape image in ancient town. Classification of results combined with the principle of landscape ecology that "matrix, patch,corridor and boundary" was also made in this paper. Space characteristics of Furong town landscape image was listed as following:(1)uneven of matrix density in Furong town;(2)heterogeneity of plaque core in Furong town;(3)heterogeneity of corridor sequence;(4)singleness of boundary element in Furong town.3.Present situation on current protection and development of ancient town was analyzed on this paper, and review of the course of its protection and development was made to find the advantage and disadvantages of ancient towns’ exploring. In order to seek the thinking of protection and development for the ancient town, cases of town building such as Copenhagen, Lijiang ancient city and Fenghuang ancient city was introduced and analyzed in this paper. This paper would provide reference, that success experience of concrete policies and measures of historical and cultural town, particularly the value orientation of landscape, to protect and develop the Furong town in Xiangxi.Four strategies of protection and development for Furong town in Xiangxi had listed at last:(1)advance the recognition level of mark and behavior in Furong town region;(2)improve the living environment of residents in ancient town and respect the folk culture of Tujia people; (3)restore and continue regional landscape in Xiangxi;(4)rise brand value of folk culture tourism in Tujia people.