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The Study Of Shuikou Culture In Huizhou Ancient Village

Posted on:2015-01-17Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:T WangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2255330428964667Subject:Folklore
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There is no doubt that the ancient village in HuiZhou is a treasure of traditional villages in China. As a final touch, Shuikou is the portal of the villages in HuiZhou. It is not only an important part of the layout of the village of Huizhou, at the same time, the culture of ShuiKou in Huizhou area become more varied, richer meaning for further exploration because of the influence of natural, historical, social, cultural, customs, beliefs and other aspects. It can produce good and bad effects on people’s peace, longevity and a flourishing population. People build Shuikou in Huizhou in order to create their own beautiful living and production environment.Prevalent in geomantic omen and the village "water culture" in Huizhou, the people attach great importance to the art of water management in villages. Huizhou ancients think that water is not only a symbol of wealth, but also affects the fortunes rise and fall of ancient village clans in the household. Therefore, for the people of Huizhou, as the hub of a village water drainage, Shuikou controls a village’s whole geomantic omen, and also represents a village soul. To create Shuikou landscape is a construction mode that the traditional village commonly used do. Mountains, water, trees, buildings are several elements of the traditional village outlet space.Huizhou ancestors put great emphasis on the construction of the Shuikou’s surrounding landscape, hoping the whole village well-being and flourished through the buildings or vegetations of Shuikou’s geomantic omen. This also let the Shuikou garden in Huizhou formed a unique Huizhou water culture and the outstanding representative of the classical gardens of Chinese. Shuikou landscape followed the laws of nature and the beauty concepts, reflects the Huizhou people’s beauty of love and longing.The development process of Shuikou has typical geographical features, was affected by the bright historical background. The unique geographical, social environment and folk beliefs and other natural and social factors of Huizhou ancient village provided a fertile ground for the emergence and development of Huizhou water culture. Shuikou garden of Huizhou boob in site selection, layout, construction, especially in the vigorous development of the Ming and Qing dynasties, and has the important spiritual and material. From the perspective of a representative of Shuikou Huizhou, the size, the construction law of Shuikou is the most direct reflection of a village economy and culture. In the landscape of Shuikou in Huizhou, we can see that the Shuikou in Huizhou has been deeply branded on the geomantic omen of imprinting, but also embodies the Huizhou ancestors pursuit of a better life homespun values, and the implication of the cultural spirit of Huizhou village.Shuikou’s emergence is an inevitable and lengthy process, it is the psychological reaction of Huizhou people and natural environment product of the combination.As the public green land of Huizhou ancient, Shuikou landscape is a part of the most spectacular in the Huizhou village landscape and become a park in each village. The "key" potential given by the theory of geomantic omen, makes Shuikou effect the portal, definition, concealment, defense, which also played an active role in the protection of the ecological environment in Huizhou village. Influenced by the geomantic omen theory, most of Shuikou forest and Shuikou buildings are endowed with special cultural implication. Both in the choice of trees and the building of categories embodies the value pursuit of the village collective. Therefore, the Huizhou people particularly pay attention to the protection of mountain, water, trees, also can be seen in a large number of literature about the protection of Shuikou conventions, Family rules disciplines record of the French. this makes the Shuikou garden also has a water conservation, air cleanning and such as ecological function of protecting the environment, Huizhou traditional village pursuing harmony with nature, and sparingly transformation and utilization of natural, virtually promotes the harmony and unity between human and nature, and accord with the "nature and humanity" in ancient Chinese philosophy point of view. The research of Shuikou cultural is an supplement of Huizhou cultural and Huizhou environmental studies. Protect Huizhou Shuikou and the cultural of it, also can play an active role in the protection of Huizhou environment, Huizhou’s cultural and tourism villages.In Huizhou society, the atmosphere of advocating the geomantic omen theory and the ecological thoughts of harmony between man and nature, have an important impact on the ancient villages. Although it now has very different views and ideas for the outlet and the ancient Huizhou ancestors, but in contemporary society, people are increasingly concerned about the maintenance of the ecological environment.
Keywords/Search Tags:Shuikou culture, village spirit, components, function, significance
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