Shu Road Villages Based on “Richthofen’s China Travel Diary” Research on the Landscape Culture of Folk Houses

Abstract

With the change of dynasties and historical changes, the specific routes of the Shu Road and the cultural and geographical environment also changed. Richthofen’s field trip from Qin to Shu recorded more detailed geographical science knowledge along the way, and provided important historical data for scholars to study the geographical science knowledge of Shu Road in the late Qing Dynasty. The article mainly uses Richthofen’s diary of the Shu Road investigation as the basis of historical data, from the perspective of residential history and geography, to study the geographical landscape culture of the Shu Road villages in the late Qing Dynasty. First, clarify the specific description of the village residential landscape along the Shu Road in the diary; secondly, use the typological method to classify and compare the distribution of the villages along the Shu Road, the types of dwellings, and the specific characteristics; finally, use the phenomenological method to analyze the village dwellings.The main factors for the formation of the landscape, and then the establishment of the cultural core model of the residential landscape of the Shudao village.