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Journal of Chinese
Architecture and Urbanism Cultural landscape in Huizhou City

Figure 9. Illustration of the landscape of the traditional village cultural landscape area in the eastern hills and mountains. Source: Drawing by the authors
scattered settlements and clan communities. Influenced regional cultural landscape features. Based on the
by the complex natural environment, forming large- multi-level and diversified cultural landscapes of
scale, concentrated building groups in villages becomes Huizhou City, this study establishes a traditional village
challenging. The predominant texture pattern is either a cultural landscape indicator system encompassing
free layout of scattered points following the topography four levels: natural ecological landscape features,
or a linear layout along rivers, lacking a prominent village spatial form features, village architectural
village core. Buildings are sparsely distributed, showing features, and village landscape element features. This
no apparent planning and organization, with significant framework aids in the identification and systematic
distances between them. The orientations of the buildings categorization of fundamental data derived from the
vary, enhancing the village’s adaptability to the hilly investigation of 132 research sample villages, allowing
environment. Street structures are mostly absent in these for scientific and comprehensive processing of this
villages due to the limitation of the natural environment information.
and the scattered layout of buildings. The landscape (ii) Through K-means clustering analysis applied to the
units in this cultural landscape area are characterized by cultural landscape key factor function data of each
simplicity and land efficiency. The large-scale buildings sample village, the villages were divided into five
in these villages are mainly Tang Hengwu houses, serving distinct categories. These categories, coupled with
multiple functions and providing space for clan gatherings spatial superposition techniques incorporating four
on a smaller site. This approach addresses land constraints descriptive indicators and boundary fine-tuning,
in the villages, leaving more land available for agricultural facilitated the delineation of five major traditional
production. Small-scale buildings in the villages are mostly village cultural landscape zones in Huizhou City.
row houses strategically dispersed based on the topography These zones include the northern mountain valley
of the terrain. traditional village cultural landscape area, the central
Dongjiang basin plain traditional village cultural
4. Discussion landscape area, the south-central Xizhi River basin
This study focuses on Huizhou City, known for its plain traditional village cultural landscape area, the
multicultural compatibility and rich, diverse landscape southern coastal traditional village cultural landscape
resources. The traditional villages within this city area, and the eastern mountainous traditional village
serve as the study object of analysis, delving into the cultural landscape area.
multidimensional landscape characteristics across various 5. Conclusion
zones in Huizhou City. Employing diverse analytical
methods, the study explores the clustering of these villages Due to the constraints of the length of the article, only
to identify the unique features characterizing each cultural a preliminary analysis of the evaluation system for the
landscape zone. The key findings of this study are outlined construction of the cultural landscape of traditional villages
below: in Huizhou City and the resulting cultural landscape area
(i) The construction of the traditional village cultural divisions are presented. Future research endeavors should
landscape factor indicator system contributes to the employ advanced data analysis methods to conduct more
analysis of both commonality and individuality of objective and scientifically rigorous analyses of the cultural

Volume 5 Issue 4 (2023) 13 https://doi.org/10.36922/jcau.1311