傳統村落作為活化的文化遺產,承載了大量的歷史記憶、人文生態、建筑美學和社會發展軌跡。隨著國家推進美麗特色小城鎮的建設,傳統村落也越來越受到重視。根據對中國傳統村落研究的統計分析,中國傳統村落相關研究可大致劃分為三個階段:1996年以前以描述性研究為主的研究起步期;1996-2005年研究方法、深度不斷拓展的發展期;2005年以后以地方認同、組織行為等軟環境及傳統主題多元共存的研究活躍期。從研究內容體系來看,研究主要涉及傳統村落價值、文化景觀、公共空間、空間形態、保護開發等內容。對比當前國際研究的最新成果,未來我國傳統村落研究可從以下四個方面推進:研究尺度從個案研究向區域多個案例的比較研究拓展,研究對象從傳統村落物質空間向傳統村落與人類交互關系的研究轉變,研究領域從傳統村落空間形態的微觀分析向結構分析及村落開發深度利用等方面深入,研究方法方面更注重多學科及新方法的應用。

As a kind of living cultural heritage, traditional villages carry extremely rich historical memory, cultural ecology, architectural aesthetics, and social development track. With China carrying for ward beautiful and featured small town construction, more and more attention is paid to traditional villages. According to the statistical analysis of research on China’s traditional villages, studies related to traditional villages in China can be roughly divided into three stages: the initial period(before 1996), with predominantly descriptive research; the development stage(1996 – 2005), with research expanding methodologies and depth; the active stage(after 2005), with the coexistence of the soft environment, such as local identity and organizational behavior, and traditional research subjects. From the viewpoint of the research content system, the studies mainly include the value of traditional villages, cultural landscape, public space, space form, protection and development, etc. Compared to the latest international research results, Chinese traditional village studies can be conducted from the following four aspects: research scale transformed from a case study to a comparative study on several cases in the region; research objects transformed from the material space of traditional villages to the interaction between traditional villages and human beings; research field transformed from the microscopic analysis of the spatial form of traditional villages to the structure analysis and developing and best using traditional villages; research methodology to lay more emphasis on the applications of multidisciplinary and new methods.