Research on the Evaluation of Soundscape in Traditional Villages of the Hakka Area in Guangdong Province
The traditional villages in China are the spaces where agricultural produces gather and reproduce,and have a historical and cultural deposit for thousands of years.The traditional villages in Hakka area of Guangdong Province have a long history and rich soundscape resources.This paper used semantic differential method and questionnaire surveys to conduct an in-depth investigation on the soundscape in traditional villages of Hakka area of Guangdong.Initially,this paper conducted preliminary research on two representative traditional villages and collected four types of typical sound samples during this process.Subsequently,these four relevant village sounds were played to participants in the acoustic laboratory,who were asked to complete a sound evaluation scale to analyze their subjective perceptions of the soundscape in traditional villages of Hakka area.The results indicated that the overall soundscape evaluation of the villages tends to be active,but lacks tranquility,while the natural sound received higher ratings than other sounds.The methods and conclusions drawn from this study may provide valuable references for the protection and inheritance of soundscapes in traditional villages in China.
traditional villages in the Hakka areasoundscape evaluationacoustic comfortsound preference