The Potential and Contribution of Asian Tea Cultural Landscapes in World Heritage
The ICOMOS regards the tea culture landscape as an essential rural landscape heritage.Asia,especially China,is the birthplace of global tea culture.People's domestication,cultivation,management,and utilization of wild tea plants over the past 6,000 years reflects the ecological wisdom of unique environmental,social,economic,and cultural conditions,which is representative of global cultural dissemination and sustainable development.The successful nomination of the Old Tea Forests of Jingmai Mountain in Pu'er,China,filled the gap in the tea culture landscape in the World Heritage.This paper analyzed the rapid development trend of the World Heritage cultural landscape and pointed out the deficiencies in the type,quantity,and value display of rural cultural landscapes based on the agricultural economy in Asia.The cutting-edge research and documents on international rural landscape heritage were reviewed to reveal the potential and contributions of the Asian tea cultural landscape in filling the gap of World Heritage cultural landscape types.Its potential and contribution in the three aspects of"reflecting harmonious and sustainable human-land relationships and practical wisdom","promoting traditional livelihoods and sustainable development","inheriting and disseminating cultural diversity"are revealed from the perspective of cultural landscape nature-cultural correlation,and tangible-intangible integrity.This study provides a theoretical basis and cognitive perspective for the systematic study of the tea culture landscape in Asia and China and contributes to improve the types of Asian tea cultural landscape.
landscape architectureWorld Heritage cultural landscaperural landscapeAsian tea culture landscapeassociative heritage valueCultural Landscape of Old Tea Forests of Jingmai Mountain in Pu'er
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