Changes in identity and management models of the ecological village of Yingshui Dong Ethnic Village in Longsheng, China

Abstract

The ecological village of 'Tongqing Shuixiang' in Longsheng County, Guangxi Province, China, is a typical representative of the landscape of Dong ethnic villages in Longsheng. The environmental characteristics and climatic conditions of Longsheng area, which are mountainous, forested and rainy, have formed a water town terrace landscape that reflects each other with "mountains, green forests, terraces, and villages". In April 2018, at the fifth global important agricultural culture international forum, Longsheng area was awarded the title of "Global Important Agricultural Cultural Heritage". This study takes the ecological village of Yingshui Dong Village in Longsheng, China as its starting point, and uses various methods such as literature research, field investigation, case study and interdisciplinary research to study the challenges and opportunities faced by the Dong ethnic ecological village and its traditional cultural arts under the impact of modern science and technology and economic and cultural development; it studies the effective measures taken by the state, local governments and villages to cope with the development dilemma, including how to protect and inherit intangible cultural heritage; how to scientifically construct and manage ecological villages, realize the cooperation and co-construction of "school-museum-village" and interdisciplinary research and management; how to strive to create and build a cultural space model of ecological village of Dongqing Water Town that links the development of "static spatial landscape culture" and "dynamic custom culture". These measures provide reference and theoretical basis for cooperatively creating a national characteristic spatial cultural management system and promoting the political, economic, cultural and tourism development of ethnic regions.