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Journal of Chinese
Architecture and Urbanism Cultural landscape in Huizhou City

Table 1. (Continued)
Cultural landscape level Cultural landscape factor Reference values of the cultural landscape factor Indicator type
classification
Village spatial form Width (W)-to-height (H) 1. W/H<0.8 Data-type
features ratio of traditional street 2. W/H=0.8–1.0
3. W/H=1.0–1.2
4. W/H>1.2
Village architectural Forms of the main building 1. Three rooms and two corridors Descriptive-type
features 2. Row houses
3. Tang Yokoyama
4. Wailing hut
5. Four-cornered house (jiaolou)
6. Siege fortress-style residence
7. Bamboo pole house
8. Downhill tiger
9. Four-pointed gold
Forms of the building roof 1. Overhanging peak Descriptive-type
2. Hard peak
3. Hiatus peak
4. Others
Forms of the building’s 1. Herringbone mountain wall Descriptive-type
mountain wall 2. Wok ear wall
3. Five-element-corresponding mountain wall
4. Others
Overall decorative style 1. Refined Descriptive-type
2. Rich
3. Simple
Relationship with the 1. Ancestral leadership Descriptive-type
temple 2. Integration of residence and ancestral hall
3. Separation of residence and ancestral hall
4. Residence around the ancestral hall
Village landscape element Feng shui pond 1. Half-moon Descriptive-type
features 2. Free
3. Windless
Feng Shui Lin 1. Village entrance forest Descriptive-type
(Fengshui forest) 2. Dragon sitting forest
3. Pad foot forest
4. House foundation forest
5. No feng shui forest
Traditional street surface 1. Slate type Descriptive-type
2. Gravel type
3. Rammed earth type
4. Mixed slate and gravel type
5. Concrete type
Courtyards 1. Single patio type (single courtyard type) Descriptive-type
2. Multiple patio type (multiple courtyard type)
3. Courtyard dam type (in front of and behind the house)
Square in front of the shrine 1. Building accessory type Descriptive-type
2. Road integration type
3. Independent type
Major agricultural 1. Rice fields Descriptive-type
landscapes 2. Fish ponds
3. Terraces
4. Fruit forests

landscape key factors. The factor loading matrix, of the 17 original data-type cultural landscape factors
presented in Table 3, indicates the contribution value to each principal component.

Volume 5 Issue 4 (2023) 6 https://doi.org/10.36922/jcau.1311