From Symbolic Expression to Image Interpretation:Exploring the Water Culture Landscape of Dianchi Lake
Although primitive natural landscapes and socio-cultural landscapes constitute together landscapes,cultural landscapes have developed to express both innate natural temperament and highly summarize various creative symbols of human activities.The Dianchi Lake area is a concentrated display area of the water culture landscape of plateau lakes,whose value generation is a continuous process of cultural layering in different periods.This article aims to showcase the historical background and spatial expansion of regional water cultural landscape development,through exploring symbolic expression and image formation of Dianchi Lake water cultural landscape.It connects lake life and environment with regional identity to outline the construction and integration of Dianchi Lake culture and landscape,and further explores the landscape system composed of plateau lake cities through water cultural symbols,in order to ultimately complete image expression of lake city and enrich and supplement landscape history research.
Cultural symbolsPlateau lakesCultural landscapeLake imagery