**4. Methodology**

*Landscape Reclamation - Rising From What's Left*

villages, which is a kind of living protection.

without over-commercialized tourism.

cultural identity.

experience [10]. In terms of interior decoration, the ancient villages in Taihu Lake can be decorated with decorative paintings, such as the history of ancient villages, the customs, the characteristics of scenic spots, local specialties, field minors, folklore traditional dance, self-entertainment dance, sacrificial dance, etc., to adorn the inner wall for tourists' appreciation. In this way, not only the ecological landscape of the ancient villages has been improved, but also the tourists have a comprehensive understanding of the cognition and protection of the ancient

With the rapid advancement of globalization and urbanization, Chinese towns and villages are changing dramatically [11], and the identity dilemma of cultural identity is also approaching us. On the one hand, we need to quickly integrate into the modern civilization system of the world by means of modernization. On the other hand, we must establish our own cultural identity and maintain our own

Some current cases of art resident projects in some ancient villages in the country are worthy of reference for ancient dwellings in the Anqing area. For example, Xiaozhou Art Village of Guangzhou is a familiar case (**Figure 8**). It started from the artist renting idle houses of the village as a studio. The tremendous changes taking place in the ancient villages of the water town fully prove that the power of art can inject new vitality into the ancient villages and achieve sustainable development

When a large number of artists came to the same place to make artistic creation, the villages with excellent mountains and waters gradually became the base of art relocation, which is also a way to activate the ancient villages. In the Cao fan and Longtanzhai villages of Taihu County, there are many ancient buildings and cultural relics in the Qing dynasty. If the two villages are based in Anhui and surrounding provinces and cities, then they are oriented to the whole country and take artistic forms such as sketching, artistic creation, photography, etc., carry out cooperation with famous colleges and universities, and promote various forms of art exchange activities such as art sketching, pen meeting, exhibition and so on,

**3.3 Art mining to build the cultural consciousness of ancient villages**

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**Figure 8.**

*Xiaozhou art village.*

This topic uses art as a medium means in the paradigm study of the ecological landscape of ancient villages. In the practice of building the ecological landscape design of the village, its purpose is to strengthen its regional cultural connotation and continue the study of the ancient villages. The research methods such as literature collection, field research, and inductive summarization are used to explore the carriers, techniques, and strategies of art in the construction of ecological landscape in ancient villages. The topic is to take Cai fan and Longtan Village as the research object, then building the theoretical system foundation. At the same time, the topic analyzes the ecological landscape of the two ancient villages, in order to further explore the practical application of the expression of art media in the ancient village landscape, so as to reach the paradigm theoretical framework for the construction of the ecological landscape of ancient villages.

From the above analysis, we will create Cai fan ancient village and Longtanzhai as an attractive and natural ecological space that promote the two ancient villages' sustainable development. The framework is shown in **Figure 9**.
