A Research of the Traditional Settlements Preservation in Cultural LandscapeA Case Study of the "Tshit-khiam" in Yunlin County

• Main Authors: Ming-tai Huang, 黃明泰
• Other Authors: none
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2009
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/06462325620652562177

碩士 === 國立雲林科技大學 === 空間設計系碩士班 === 97 === In 2005, the category of cultural landscape was newly added into Cultural Heritage Preservation Law and it clearly defined the classifications of cultural landscape. Broadly speaking, cultural landscape can be seen as the result of interaction between the human beings and the nature, which illustrates the chronic relation of the habitants and the environment. Although the difference of settlement and cultural landscape is precisely defined, settlement is often viewed as a group of affiliated buildings. However, the habitants’ lifestyle, production and local customs should be taken into consideration to make the idea of cultural landscape more comprehensive. His-lo, Er-lun and Lun-bei in Yun-lin county are three towns where majority of Chao-An Hakka people live, and villagers with surnames of Chang and Liao are the lead. For hundreds of years, the united community of culture and worship customs has been formed and is called Tshit-khiam. In this research, the evolution of spatial change and history as well as the distribution of spatial organization of Tshit-khiam is studied and discussed. Not only compared with how the concept of cultural landscape is defined internationally, much literature relevant to settlement studies and cultural landscape is also reviewed in this study. By assessing the example of Tshit-khiam from standpoints of cultural heritage preservation laws of Taiwan’s and other counties’, the propriety and value of Tshit-khiam to be seen as a cultural landscape is examined. Furthermore, the review of Japanese cultural heritage preservation system is also discussed in the hope of providing Tshit-khiam or future villages with suggestions and criteria of defining cultural landscapes.