Study on Landscape Features of Bai People'sTraditional Mountainous Villages in Dali

Study on Landscape Features of Bai People’sTraditional Mountainous Villages in Dali

In view of the vast mountainous areas and abundant mountainous settlement resources of Dali Bai Nationality Autonomous Prefecture, the authors proposed the significance and necessity of studying landscape features of traditional mountainous settlements of the Bai Nationality by considering policy requirements of protection system planning of famous historic and cultural cities, towns, villages and blocks in Yunnan Province and construction of mountainous towns. On the basis of investigating traditional mountainous settlements of the Bai Nationality in Dali, 5 typical settlements were analyzed from the perspectives of landscape structure, village layout, landscape element, landscape materials and decorative art. And characteristics of traditional mountainous settlements of the Bai Nationality were summarized as following the nature, adaptive to actual terrains, multidimensional, human-nature oneness.