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Journal of Chinese
Architecture and Urbanism Cultural landscape in Huizhou City

Figure 4. Zoning map of the cultural landscape of traditional villages in Huizhou. Source: Drawing by the authors

Figure 5. Landscape illustration of the traditional village cultural landscape area in the northern mountain valley. Source: Drawing by the authors

this cultural landscape area are generally small in scale. clusters along the mountains and the water. The landscape
Influenced by the clan concept, most of the villages are laid unit of this cultural landscape area is characterized by a
out in clusters, with a Hakka house serving as the center of grand village enclosure and subsidiary landscape. The core
the settlement. In some mountainous areas, a few villages building of the village is the large-scale Hakka fortress-
are formed as independent entities with only one Hakka style houses, enclosed by rows of houses or walls to form
house. Most villages adopt a layout where Hakka houses a “perimeter.” Inside this perimeter, ancestral halls and
serve as the center of the settlement, forming several houses are orderly and neatly arranged.

Volume 5 Issue 4 (2023) 9 https://doi.org/10.36922/jcau.1311