Research on local characteristics of Guizhou traditional villages from the perspective of mountains-rivers-forests-farmlands-lakes-grassland
Under the background of new urbanization,the diversity of human settlements in traditional villages is facing the threat of loss,rational use and protection of the local landscape of traditional villa-ges is conducive to promoting the sustainable development of the diversity of human settlements.Based on the"mountains,rivers,forests,farmlands,lakes,grassland life community"concept,taking 757 tra-ditional villages in Guizhou Province as an example,spatial analysis methods such as graphical repre-sentation and kernel density estimation are used comprehensively to explores the spatial distribution structure of traditional villages and its relationship with natural landscape elements such as mountains,rivers,forests and farmlands.Research finding:1)The number and density of traditional villages in Guizhou Province are large,and they are clustered and unevenly distributed in the spatial structure,mainly in the southeast region,in the southwest and northeast are patchy,scattered distribution;the number of traditional villages in the northwest is relatively small.2)On the correlation characteristics of village and natural landscape elements,in terms of the relationship with the type of mountainous area,hilly villages are the most numerous,with 491 villages,or 64.8%,in distribution;in terms of the rela-tionship with the type of water area,the valley type and reservoir type villages are more distributed,ac-counting for 51.5%and 44.2%respectively;among the vegetation types,the number of traditional vil-lages in the cultivated plant area is the largest,accounting for 50.9%of the total villages;the farmland type is mainly rice terraces,accounting for 58.8%of the total villages.3)In terms of local patterns,tra-ditional villages in Guizhou can be divided into four patterns,namely,village-mountain,village-water,village-forest,and village-field,based on the natural conditions of their sites.Finally,based on the spa-tial distribution and local characteristics of traditional villages,development,utilisation and protection strategies for traditional villages in Guizhou by zoning and classification are proposed.