Path exploration for the conservation of regional cultural heritage

Abstract

At present, historical and cultural conservation presents a regional, holistic, and synergistic development trend. Moreover, the previous theories and methods are no longer applicable and need to be explored and updated urgently. This study identifies, locates and comprehensively assesses and analyses the value carriers from the perspective of historical and cultural conservation and inheritance by adhering to the combination of the locality of culture and the systematicness of value, sorting out the regional historical lineage and refining the resource elements and value system through resource element identification, ancient map translation, historical and cultural information visualisation and spatial layering and slicing. This study also focuses on the correlation between regional historical and cultural elements. Moreover, the studies on the changes and development of the historic and cultural spatial system in the Xuhe River Basin, the concentrated and contiguous preservation and utilisation planning of Jiangsu's typical traditional villages and the urban and rural historical and cultural conservation and inheritance system planning in Jiangsu Province are taken as typical examples. This study attempts to construct the technical support under the regional context according to the successive historical and cultural patterns and explore the path and methods of regional historical and cultural conservation and the inheritance system. Moreover, it looks forward to proposing an interpretation and a response to the historical and cultural conservation and inheritance in Jiangsu Province to integrate them into the Chinese heritage conservation system.