Abstract
With the implementation of China’s Rural Revitalization Strategy, more and more traditional villages have been developed. However, due to the lack of value awareness, many rural planning policies are unreasonable, and therefore, characteristics disappear. In the past, the value identification of traditional villages mostly stayed in the general value description, which was not enough to highlight the unique overall value of the village. From the perspective of the cultural landscape, taking Liufang village in Liping County of Guizhou Province as an example, this paper interprets the value of cultural landscape from the concept of “long-term interaction between human and nature,” and then carry out three value themes of “settlement landscape of Dong people in the low and middle mountain valley area,” “agricultural landscape and activities of Dong people under traditional rice farming,” and “spiritual landscape of Dong People’s beliefs, systems and customs”. Moreover, by interviewing local residents, this paper summarizes two aspects of Liufang village value consensus—traditional culture and landscape construction, as well as tourism development opportunities and challenges—and analyzes the relationship between them. The new attempt to identify traditional village’s value in this paper lies in the combination of object value and subject perception, which is more conducive to the scientific formulation of traditional village protection and tourism sustainable development strategy.
Highlights
Since 1992, the rural landscape has been regarded as a “continuous cultural landscape” by the UNESCO World Heritage Center in the Operational Guideline for the Implementation of the World Heritage Convention [3]
This paper introduces a method of overall identification of village value, namely, cultural landscape, which focuses on the continuous interaction between humans and nature [25,26]
Through in-depth interviews, we study the perception of the stakeholders on the village’s value and compare it with the conclusion of the cultural landscape method, which has an innovative significance
Summary
Traditional villages have relatively more cultural heritages in tangible and intangible forms and have high historical, cultural, scientific, artistic, social, and economic values [1]. Under the background of globalization, modernization, and urbanization, the importance of traditional village protection has become increasingly prominent [2]. At the same time, the large-scale and rapid urbanization process makes the conventional villages face the pressure of destruction and even extinction. Since 1992, the rural landscape has been regarded as a “continuous cultural landscape” by the UNESCO World Heritage Center in the Operational Guideline for the Implementation of the World Heritage Convention [3].
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