Nostalgic Element Identification and Dimension Construction in Kunming
Based on the cultural cognition and emotion of nostalgia among urban residents in Kunming,this paper combined with Nvivo qualitative analysis tool to use random interviews and online text analysis to identify the ele-ments of nostalgia in Kunming.The grounded theory is used to multi-dimensional construct the cultural elements of nos-talgia in Kunming.The results show that the cultural elements of nostalgia in Kunming can be summarized into 7 dimen-sions,including urban landscape image,natural geographical characteristics,architectural style pattern,characteristic food culture,folk customs and folk culture,spiritual and cultural needs and local folk songs and legends;the sensory image formed by visual image and taste memory becomes the most important element of homesickness culture,which in-dicates that the essence of homesickness culture is material,and it is an embodied experience memory based on vision and taste;The importance of urban residents'cognition of the cultural elements of Kunming nostalgia is decreasing gradually from'real'to'virtual';the cultural elements of urban nostalgia have contrasting,representative and his-torical characteristics,and the intangible cultural heritage is the product and carrier of urban nostalgia.The spatial distribution of nostalgic cultural elements in Kunming is mainly a'mountain-water-city'pattern from west to east.
nostalgiaurban nostalgiacultural elementgrounded theory