Since the reform and opening up,the rapid development of urbanization in China has led to a large number of rural population loss.The problem of "hollow villages" is becoming more and more serious,and the traditional villages are gradually disappearing.Therefore,it is very urgent to record and study the traditional villages which have not been recorded in the archives.The research object of this paper is the traditional village of Dong people.Located in the remote mountainous southwest of Hubei Province,the village is relatively well preserved due to poor traffic conditions and was selected in2016 to be listed in the fourth national list of traditional Chinese villages.However,in recent years,the problem of the loss of young population and the decline of villages has become more and more serious.So whether from heritage protection or from the perspective of Rural Development,the village has the significance and urgency of research.The space form of the village is the carrier of the material and active consciousness of human life.Only by studying the space form of the cultural anthropology can we study the traditional village deeply.So,the research is carried out from the following three aspects: 1)investigation of spatial morphological characteristics.The spatial form of the village was investigated by means of field work,research on cultural remnants and research on cultural changes in cultural anthropology.On the one hand,the internal environment of the village is investigated,including village site selection,building layout,road network structure,public space node distribution,vegetation and water area,etc..On the other hand,investigate the unit building,from the building material selection,architectural form,spatial elements layout and other aspects of the study of the common characteristics of buildings,and through specific examples of the analysis of their characteristics.2)using cultural Quantitative analysis and structural functional analysis to analyze the cultural anthropology elements directly related to spatial form.Its contents include the origin of the village,geographical environment,heritage,beliefs of villagers,ethnic culture,major economic production activities,family members and relatives,and so on.3)based on the projective relationship between cultural anthropology and the spatial form of the village of Damaopo,this paper combs the inheritance and development characteristics of the spatial form of the village by using the method of Cultural Comparative Study,and puts forward some suggestions for the future spatial development.This study attempts to explore the connotation of the spatial form of Damaopo village by studying the projective relationship between the spatial form and social factors,and summarize the characteristics of the village from three aspects of tradition,regionality and modernity,the purpose of this paper is to provide some references for the study of the present situation and the future development of the villages in Dong people,southwest Hubei Province. |