Dali Homestay:the Cultural Tourism Experience At Bai People’s Traditional Housing In The Dali Ancient Town

Dali of Yunnan Province has its unique nature, history, nationalities, culture and etc; recently, it becomes one of the important places in China which could develop cultural experiences tourism. As the gathering place of Chinese Bai nationality, Dali also remains a large amount of Bai national residential buildings. These characteristic traditional buildings are the landmarks which express the living ways, folkways and historic culture of Bai people. This thesis mainly studies Dali lodges, which blossom based on local Bai traditional buildings. As the extension of Dali travel market, the livelihoods, nationality characters, artistry and experience of these lodges, make the lodges become the cultural tourism hot spot of Dali. Actually, the transform of traditional buildings to lodges means commercialization. It means that, the lodge-ized traditional buildings needed to change to comply with the market requirements.The characteristics of these buildings transformed into lodges are:first, lodges are liveable as well as traditional buildings. The houses patterns changed and they are not only supply living for the owners but also for the guests. These changes featured the unconscious national cultures. Second, the different running way of lodges and individual aesthetic demands weaken traditional culture and strengthen multi-cultures. Third, the living ways of people of the traditional buildings changed a lot with building lodge-ization, which means, their living ways changed from primary industry to tertiary industry. While, with these changes, the people original country life changed. Forth, lodge-ization transforms the old ways of protect culture heritage by sealing up into make a carrier of historical culture to people experience spaces. Actually, lodge-ization is the course of fusion of old and new cultures. In this course, the transform or change of the local people’s living ways of daily living, country life, local knowledge and farming, when they provide severs for outcomers in the common culture space would make their culture space legal and create the sense of crisis.This thesis uses antitheses, induction and etc. to discuss and study the living ways by the Bai people’s building lodge-ization. And it also provides the theories and knowledge of culture industry, ethnology, aesthetics, economic experiment, architectural art and so on to study systematically for the changes of the lodge-ization in the modern consumer market. This thesis intends to analyze some cases of the lodges to explore practically the integration of local cultures and global cultures. To study the negative influences of put more capital into the national and local people’s life, and expands and develops the form, content, ways of local cultural economic.