Analysis Of The Shui Nationality’s Rural Settlements Landscape And Morphological Space

Settlements are divided into rural and urban two categories in Geography, both constrained by natural conditions and socio-economic conditions. The rural settlements better reflect the relationship with natural geographic environment, also to better show the primitive landscape layout state. The traditional rural settlements in China is so called "national treasures of private collections", Shui nationality with its ancient, colorful and profound meaning of the national culture, created its unique, rich deep ethnic characteristics space of the traditional rural settlements, with the precious value of academic research.Based on the background from the relevant settlement, Trying to explore the rural settlements of the site selection, overall layout, mental space, image analysis, landscape composition, vernacular architecture, as well as the crisis facing by a combination of literature research and field research. And analysis the typical ethnic village, explore the possible ways and tourism development strategy of the spatial form of the Sandu rural village landscape to protect the update to try to make up for the insufficient of the research of aquarium culture and rural village landscape spatial form.Through the rural village landscape about Shui nationality researching in Sandu, we realized the settlements in the site selection process followed the traditional Feng Shui pattern, accord with the ancient Confucian ecological theory of the "harmony " thought and the idea of rational using of natural resources, cherishing and care the ecological environment, due to the influence of terrain and other natural factors, the settlement of overall layout shows different, formed a rich and varied external space, by the beliefs of ethnic clans, kinship clan supremacy as well as ancient Confucian Ecological Ethics, rural settlements formed the Shui national people living together in a mental space model spirit of cohesion, also become to the visible shackles of the behavior of people life.Combined with the doctrine of the image of Kevin Lynch, to analysis the rural settlements that the image about environment, landscape, ecology, religion and Feng Shui in Shui nationality. To expect given to the settlement’s identification and difference, enhance the unique landscape imagery, and easy to strengthen the geographical attributes of the rural settlements. Rural settlements landscape space mainly consists of borders, paths, nodes, markers, the natural environment and human environment of six elements, through the sorting out of the hands of literature on their characteristics were systematically analyzed.Balustrade Culture is the main form of living of the aquarium, form the essence of the landscape of the Shui nationality rural settlements. Through the aquarium village morphology and landscape layout perspective, combined with a specific vernacular landscape features, the article analyses the Balustrade Culture, architectural graphic, style and structure, as well as the architectural culture progressively. The mapping of the traditional history witnessed the change and the rise and fall of the culture, with highly value of history, science, and art.The article also analyses the influence of the urbanization rapid development process to traditional settlement. Urban land is expansion to the rural, the rural population is transferred to urban areas, residents’ values change, traditional architecture cultural loss. Ecology and culture of the rural settlements is gradually being swallowed, there is be in need of immediate find out a road to protect it as the important material and intangible cultural heritage of our country. In the last, the article explored the protection and update strategy. In the process of protection updates, we need respect the spirit of place, focus on the continuity of updates, strengthen the regulation of the legal system, improve the planning system to guide, encourage public to participation in, enhance the protection awareness of residents, revitalize the economy, develop the development. To show local characteristics of its national tourism, play its distinctive place, be a development value of the traditional rural settlements, and to show their own unique charm, finally, have a bright future.In short, the article provides possible ways, and tourism development strategy to updated form of protection of the Shui nationality’s settlement landscape space, and also a reference for the construction of rural settlements, in this research.