A Study On The Settlement Form Of Traditional Fishing Villages In Dongqian Lake,Ningbo

The domestic researches on the form of traditional settlements have gradually matured both in the richness of the geographical scope and the systematicness of the cultural lineage.However,in the existing studies,there is little attention to the special types of settlements,Especially fishing villages in inland lakes,which act as an indispensable component of fishing,farming,cultivation,and reading in the farming era,with important historical and cultural values.The research object of this paper is the Taogongshan village,in Dongqian Lake,Ningbo,which is a large-scale whole settlement integrating natural environment,clan society and fishery production.Its organic growing settlement form has a high degree of scarcity,which is a classic case of fishing villages in inland lakes in China.Based on the conservation planning,the research has gone through field investigations for the past three years of the research process as a postgraduate student,and forms a field report of a traditional settlement in the view of urban planning.The main content of this paper is divided into four parts:The first part places Taogongshan in the regional form.Starting from the historical and geographical environment in Ningbo,independent natural environment,historical water management,and fishing culture rooted in the spiritual world,are important backgrounds for the formation and evolution of traditional fishing villages in Dongqian Lake.The second part puts Taogongshan in its evolution.Taking the social structure changes of the ten clans in Taogongshan as a clue,the study found that from the beginning of the clan avoiding war and living in seclusion,to the settlement space division,and then to the development of the branch of a clan and the mature of the community,the growth of the settlement of Taogongshan was closely related to the clan society.The third part analyzes the settlement form of Taogongshan,which consists of three levels: whole,cluster,and unit.The whole presents as a linear settlement relying the mountain and facing the lake under the influence of human-land relations.The cluster appears as ring-shaped clan structure of the ten clans under the influence of social relations.And the unit pattern is a settlement texture formed by joint action of the branch of clan and fishery production.The three levels together reflect the organic growth of Taogongshan.The fourth part focuses on planning methods for the conservation and renewal of settlement form.From an international perspective,Taogongshan is recognized as a settlement cultural heritage.The integrity,liveliness,and organic nature of the Taogongshan is valuable.Together with the planning practice,this part proposes the measures of highlighting the main line,strengthening the structure,and emphasizing the unit,consisting of associated conservation mode of the settlement form of Taogongshan.In addition,this part puts forward a method of the renewal of the settlement texture,implemented in the clan unit within the clan structure,which includes three steps,identifying,conserving and restoring.In view of the scarcity of fishing village in inland lakes in China,this article conducts in-depth research on Taogongshan,enriches the research field of traditional settlements.Moreover,this paper proposes the associated conservation strategies of settlement form and the renewal methods of texture units.It will also have certain applicability to the conservation and renewal of other traditional villages.