**1. Introduction**

Throughout the history of the development of the world landscape, both the Western and Eastern landscape designs have been focused on architectural design, and the architectural structures, water bodies, plants, and mountain combinations in landscape science can form the elements of ecological beauty. As far as architecture is concerned, it is only one of the important elements in artificial landscape design. Architecture is the main carrier of people's life. It is precisely because of this modern construction, people's emphasis on nature, humanities, customs, and ecological landscapes has been weakened. People's increasing material and spiritual cultural needs and the need to optimize their living space have made landscape design a more urgent need for perfection. It has also become a weather vane to

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 space, and quality of life.

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 (geography), anthropology, and art.

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 of regional ancient villages in a deeper level.

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 and characteristics.

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**Figure 2.**

**Figure 1.**

*Blue tile roof of Longtan ancient village.*

*Location of Longtan ancient village.*

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

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 reputa-

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

tion of "the scent of the book, the hometown of elegance."

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

**2. Overview of ancient villages**

**2.1 Cai fan ancient residence**

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