ANALYSIS OF THE COMPOSITION OF TRADITIONAL VILLAGE IMAGE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF CULTURAL LANDSCAPE - A CASE STUDY OF VILLAGES IN HUANGHE VALLEY IN WESTERN HENAN REGION, CHINA

Abstract

At present, the image protection and renewal of traditional Chinese villages often remain at the level of architectural preservation, which has led to the phenomenon of constructive and protective destruction. The main problem lies in the fact that only material protection is carried out, while the overall correlation of village space and the cultural and social behaviors behind the space are lacking in value recognition. The purpose of this study are: 1) To study the characteristics of cultural landscape

elements that are related to the traditional rural image. 2) To analyze the characteristics of the elements and problems of the cultural landscape image, in order to protect and develop the ancient village image.3) To create new spatial design innovations and produce a guide for relevant departments in the conservation and development of the cultural landscape image. Therefore, this study adopts a qualitative research method to analyze the composition of traditional village images in Huanghe valley in western Henan region from the perspective of cultural landscape. There are three stages :1) To explore the problem of traditional villages at the national and provincial levels; 2) Literature review, field literature, and data collection in various aspects; 3) Data analysis to find out the overall elements of the village and formulate guidelines to innovate the rural space design. The results show that the image composition of traditional villages in Huanghe valley in western Henan region can be understood as a composite system composed of layout space image, street place image and landmark node image. The images of the three spatial carriers are independent of each other and convey different immaterial meanings through different spatial representations. At the same time, the three spatial carriers are linked to each other when forming the overall image of the village. This kind of cognition can be used as the basic premise for the protection and renewal of traditional village images.