How Water Culture Affect The Continuous Life Of Landscape Elements In Lin Pan In Chengdu Plain

Linpan in Chengdu Plain is a distinctive regional rural settlement, which reflects the uniqueness of social and cultural in the agricultural civilization time. This type of rural settlement, with distinctive local culture, has a high cultural connotation and aesthetic value, and it is also the carrier of the water culture of Western Sichuan plain. With the gradually propelling of the new-type urbanization of China, great changes have taken place at traditional agriculture society, which means that the wild traditional settlements, Linpan in Chengdu Plain being included, are in the process of the serious constructive destruction, as well as the sustainable development policy is facing many challenges. In recent years, people have come into some certain understanding on the Linpan in Chengdu Plain, and have carried out a series of protective measures. However, the focus is always on the protection of the ecological vegetation and the construction of the local-style dwelling houses, not on the unique cultaral landscape scenery and the cultural heritage of Linpan in Chengdu Plain itself.The water culture is the source and the soul of the development of Linpan in Chengdu Plain. For thousands of years, it gives life and vitality to Linpan, with great containing and renewing capabilities. And it is a culture of sustainable development style, which has an great significance to the life and the conservation of Linpan in Chengdu Plain. As for the article, by way of doing survey about the general situation of the water system, and by way of recording the representative water cultural resources, we classify the water culture into two big categorizes-the material cultural resource and the spiritual cultural resource, in the background of natural and humanistic environment. On this basis, we have finished a deeper analysis on the influence the water culture plays to each component factors of Linpan in Chengdu Plain, and came out a conclusion about the characteristics and the influence of the formation and viability of Linpan in Chengdu Plain landscape.The water culture of Linpan in Chengdu Plain has the nature of containment, constancy, and sustainable development. In the long history of Linpan, the water culture has absorbed diversified outside cultures brought with immigrants from various regions, showing the containment of natural integration. During the long forming and improving process of Linpan landscape, the outside culture and the water culture, being interwoven and inter-influenced, have together shaped a new water culture which is not only maintaining Western Sichuan’s immanence but also absorbing advantages of diversified cultures. And the new water culture is of more connotation, richness, lasting and powerful vitality. The nature of the water culture is sustainable, and the significance of it is not only promoting the formation of Linpan landscape, but also, as a guiding ideology, impelling Linpan landscape to a better development, conforming to the laws of nature. It is under the nourishment of the water culture that makes Linpan landscape continuously flourish.The water culture is the source of Linpan in Chengdu Plain, as well as the spiritual pillar and the deriving force of the sustainable Linpan landscape. And it gives Western Sichuan plain the resources, the lives, and the vitality; it also provides the prerequisite to the lasting and improvement of the plain. In the meantime, ancestors’s water-controlling ideas of "man is integral part of nature" and "man and nature live peacefully" are deeply rooted in it. With continuous evolvement and sublimation, these ideas gradually come into the meaningful and profound water culture. In the invisible and formable influence of water culture, Linpan in Chengdu Plain derives diversified carriers that help to build up the unique and attractive Linpan landscape. On the one hand, the water culture not only plays a guidance role to the formation of Linpan in Chengdu Plain’s material landscape, but also affects the style and layout of Linpan (e.g. the site selection). Moreover, it is still of positive significance to the formation of spiritual culture of folk tradition and folk customs. On the other hand, with the nourishment of the water culture, Linpan enriches the nature of the water culture by different ways. This intergrowth and inter-improvement mode expresses the sustainable vitality of Linpan.Confronting the development bottleneck and severe current situation, we, on the one hand, must enhance the effective protection and reasonable planning of water culture resources, and, on the other hand, must improve the construction of regional culture through further discover of the connotation and the resource potential of the water culture. It means transferring the advantages of the water culture to the advantages of Linpan in Chengdu Plain’s development, which promotes it to a better improvement both in scope and in depth, so that to achieve the self-protection and development.The water culture is sustainable and inheritable, and the landscape resource it forms is a kind of human landscape, being non-renewable history source. So the conservation and protection of Linpan in Chengdu Plain is the primary mission of current. In the protection and inheritance point of view, we would better put forward some feasible suggestions about the sustainable development of Linpan in Chengdu Plain, and provide more enlightenment and reference to Western Sichuan culture, including details, formations, ways, and ideas.