The Research Of Lejv Historical Yi Traditional Vilage Culture And Architectural Culture In Tuanjie Town,Kunming

Yunnan province is a multi-ethnic province in china, influenced by comprehensive factors such as ethnic and geographical location, retaining many historically ethnic villages. Located in the foothills of Phoenix Mountain which is in the northwest of Kunming city, Lejv village has over600years of history. It is the largest, best preserved and most typical Yi residential architectures of old Kunming city, with types of "Yikeyin","Half of Yikeyin","Yikeyin in row or Half of Yikeyin in row". Making Lejv village as this research object, starting from the buildings and the village itself, on the basis of a large number of field researches, this paper explores the characteristics of the object of study, to judge the commonalities and differences of the villages, and then discusses the characteristic of architectural culture in Lejv village.This research made a detailed basic data collection and analysis work from both of the village level and buildings level. In the village level, it studies the village’s location, general layout and space creation. In the old village site selection, Lejv village selected hillsides which has good natural conditions, and has a flexible layout, besides the village is in a linear development with a road system of tree type. In the space creating, both of the intention of boundary and node in Lejv village are concentrated in the main temple and the river that guards the village, the roadway space of the village is a pedestrian system.The control of length and width of roadway is reasonable, and the profile has a type of "wide in the below while narrow in the above". In the buildings level, it researches three types of construction, the residential buildings, sacrifice buildings, and college buildings. In the study of residential buildings, with an analysis of two aspects that contains building materials and architectural form, it sums up the regionalism in building materials and uniqueness in building forms,and these two features are belongs to the construction type of "Yikeyin".In the study of sacrifice buildings, the main temple reflects the Yi people’s worship of nature, at the same time the side halls——temples of the "goddess of mercy pavilion" and "mammon", reflect a certain national integration. In the study of collage buildings, it is concluded that the academies rebuilt from the "Yikeyin",due to changes in their functions, have changed their each functions of architectural planes, so that they are more suitable for the architectural functions of the academies. This research also analyses the architectural culture of Lejv village. It concludes that hearths in Lejv village are placed in the right wing-room or replaced by cooking benches, through the comparing with Longtan village which has different ethnics but in the same area and Tonghai village which has the same ethnics but in different areas. Village location reflects the Yi people’s own culture of site selection. Meanwhile, the village is one of the very few mountainous villages with a type of" Yikeyin". In the respect of buildings, the plane scale of "Yikeyin" in Lejv village is small, and some new types are emerging, like "Half of Yikeyin","Yikeyin in row" and so on.Finally, this research indicates that Lejv village is a village based on Yi culture which is emerging from the blending influences of Yi and Han, is a distinctive regional culture village,is a breakthrough in the typical shape of "Yikeyin", and an innovative village.