**2.1 Cai fan ancient residence**

*Landscape Reclamation - Rising From What's Left*

space, and quality of life.

(geography), anthropology, and art.

of regional ancient villages in a deeper level.

measure the quality of people's lives. Landscape design is not a narrow concept equivalent to general greening. It is a combination of urban planning, urban function, landscaping, architectural modeling, sculpture, installation art, environmental system, urban water supply, and drainage, a systematic project in which botany, esthetics and nature are integrated into harmony with nature. At present, the landscape design of beautiful villages is mostly a hard-won set of modern landscape design. It lacks understanding and respect for nature, humanities, customs, ecology, and characteristics [1]. It does not have all the characteristics, culture, and ecology of the original village. The rapid development of modern social economy has promoted the rapid development of material civilization. At the same time, people's demand for spiritual civilization is getting higher and higher. It is realized that the importance of ecological landscape makes people no longer simply obey the single line of architecture, but give much more attention to the two-line development direction of the building to match the ecologically harmonious landscape. Under such a background, the harmonious landscape of architecture and ecology will eventually become a two-line harmonious development direction and that will become the major impact of production of human, living space and quality of life, which is also an eternal topic of landscape design. With the wisdom and subjective initiative of human beings, in the constant reflection and progress, we will continue to pursue the landscape design of "harmony between heaven and man" [2], which will definitely bring about tremendous improvement in human production, living

The ecological landscape of Cai fan and Longtanzhai in Taihu County studied in this project is not only an important expression of the settlement form, but also one of the research contents of landscape morphology. The main direction of this project research will be to study the content of the settlement ecological landscape from the multidisciplinary perspectives of geography, architecture and history

Methodologically,by collecting and sorting out the ecological concepts, planning layout, human space and other related materials embodied in the site selection process of the ancient village, it provides the necessary theoretical basis for the research of this topic. On this basis, we summarize the existing literature and historical data, and combine the ecological landscape of the ancient village with the design art, so that the ecological landscape of the ancient village has two characteristics – Artistry and Original ecology. The ecological concept, combined with the specific case of the ancient village, sums up the ecology of the ancient village, which is worthy of the place of contemporary landscape design learning. We have to go deep into the ancient villages of Cai fan and Longtanzhai in Taihu County to conduct on-the-spot investigations, understand the surrounding environment of the ancient villages, and the current development situation, take photos, visit the villagers' opinions and suggestions, and truly grasp the local accurate information, which complements the theoretical deficiency, in order to analyze the construction of ecological landscapes

The richer the traditional resources of Cai fan and Longtanzhai ancient villages in Taihu County, the higher the historical, cultural, scientific, artistic, social and economic values, and the use of art as a medium to optimize and protect the ecological landscape of ancient villages, planning for ancient villages. In the process, it highlights its regional cultural connotation and continues the study of the ancient village culture. It analyzes the composition and characteristics of the ecological landscape of ancient villages, summarizes the paradigm of art to construct the ecological landscape of ancient villages, and explores the integration of native regional culture into landscape design to form a history with local style

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and characteristics.

Cai fan is located in an ancient village in Tangquan Town, Taihu County, Anqing city, Anhui province. There are more than 300 well-preserved ancient dwelling houses. The building covers an area of more than 14,600 square meters and still houses more than 70 families. Since ancient times, Cai fan has enjoyed the reputation of "the scent of the book, the hometown of elegance."

Located in the deep mountainous area, the ancient village of Cai fan in the Jinying Village of Tangquan Town was built in the Ming and Qing dynasties. The buildings here belong to the typical style of the southern Fujian Huizhou and the hustle and bustle of the dragonfly (**Figure 1**). The antique is the building of the Ming and Qing dynasties in the southwestern part of the country. The typical example of concentration is also a model of the combination of the Chinese Huizhou architectural art and the Dabie Mountains. It is a "living stone" that reflects the twists and turns of the ancient villages in the Dabie Mountains (**Figure 2**).

The main building of Cai fan ancient residence on the three sides of the mountain is located in the northwest and south of the country. It is divided into ordinary dwellings, churches, and ancestral halls. The ordinary dwellings are two-storey brick walls maintained by the two-storey brick wall and still retain a large number of cultural connotations, engraving Yinglian plaque. The interior and exterior decorations are relatively simple, and the houses under the ridge are connected into a unified whole. The households are connected by roads, and a small river with bluestones surrounds the houses. The center of the church and the ancestral hall are

**Figure 1.** *Blue tile roof of Longtan ancient village.*

**Figure 2.** *Location of Longtan ancient village.*

made up of small bricks and small tile walls. The appearance is simple and elegant. The interior structure of the house is that the pillars cross over *fang* (Fang is a horizontal or vertical interpenetrating member that connects and stabilizes columns), and the pillars, beams and piggyback girders are hard and anticorrosive Castanopsis trees of local natural growth materials (**Figure 3**). These Huizhou art buildings such as the center of house and ancestral hall together with ancient ordinary dwellings constitute the Cai fan ancient dwelling complex. The building scale and volume are

**Figure 3.** *Hu's ancestral hall.*


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**Figure 4.**

*The overall appearance of Longtan ancient village.*

*Making Art Involve in the Paradigm of Ecological Landscape Construction in Ancient…*

a very high cultural value and the value of historical research (**Table 1**).

nature, and has a high academic value of cultural geography.

*2.2.2 The cultural space of Longtan ancient village*

huge. There are 650 houses with a building area of 13,800 square meters, which has

Longtan ancient village is located in Tangquan Town, Taihu County, deep in the hinterland of Dabie Mountain in the southwestern Yunnan, bordering Qianshan County in the east, connected to Siqian Town in the south, connecting Zhuwan Village in the west and Yuexi in the north. Longtan Village has a long history and profound cultural heritage. The village form, pattern, and concentrated distribution of the Qing dynasty buildings have extremely high historical value, cultural relic value, and artistic value. There are ancient populations of Hu's Ancestral Hall and Longtan Village with a history of more than 600 years. The Longtanzhai Nature Mountain is rich in water resources, such as small bridges, flowing water, and ancient trees (**Figure 4**). The environment is excellent, and the Huizhou architecture is profound, reflecting the model of harmonious coexistence between man and

The Longtan ancient village buildings are located between the two mountains. The terrain is high and level, the mountains are beautiful, the streams are clear, and the air is fresh. The buildings in the ancient village are ancient and well preserved, which fully reflect the Huizhou style of the buildings and the southwest residential features and superb architectural craftsmanship. Since the establishment

The "cultural space" belongs to the category of anthropology, and its concepts are numerous. The details are not the scope of this article. Mr. Liu Kuili: "according to the regional cultural characteristics of the same nature, the selection of traditional

of Longtan ancient village has respected Confucian scholarship in education (paying special attention to Cheng Zhu's Neo Confucianism), the literary atmosphere is prosper, attaching importance to calligraphy and folk popular tune. Longtanzhai embodies its unique Huizhou cultural features from the geographical location and cultural phenomena of ancient villages, such as Huizhou merchant culture, social patriarchal culture, harmonious natural geomantic culture, and Confucian ethical culture of Cheng and Zhu Neo-Confucianism (**Figure 5**).

*DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.81182*

**2.2 Longtan ancient village**

*2.2.1 Overview of Longtan village*

## **Table 1.**

*Relevant data of representative ancient buildings in Caifan.*

huge. There are 650 houses with a building area of 13,800 square meters, which has a very high cultural value and the value of historical research (**Table 1**).
