Brief introduction to the characteristics of ancient Chinese villages

Ancient village refers to the village built before the Republic of China, which has retained a great historical evolution, that is, the architectural environment, architectural style and village site selection have not changed much, and have unique folk customs. Although it has gone through a long time, it still serves people today.

Main features of ancient villages:

It has the characteristics of both material cultural heritage and intangible cultural heritage, and in the village, these two heritages are mutually integrated and interdependent, belonging to the same cultural and aesthetic gene, and are a unique whole. Ancient villages are not "cultural protection units", but bases of production and life, and are the most basic units of society and rural communities. The spiritual heritage of ancient villages includes not only all kinds of intangible heritage, but also a large number of unique historical memories, clan inheritance, vulgar dialects, rural rules and regulations, production methods and so on. As a unique spiritual and cultural connotation, they exist because of the existence of the village, which makes the village tradition heavy and vivid, and is also the "living soil" that all kinds of "intangible heritage" of the village can not do without.