Analysis of the Characteristics of "Na Space" in Zhuang ethnic Traditional Village Settlement ——A case study of traditional village settlements in southwest Guangxi

Abstract

Abstract The You river and Zou river, tributaries of the Pearl River in southwest Guangxi, are the origin of the Zhuang ancestors. ("Na" means paddy field in Zhuang language) and the Zhuang ethnic culture system of southwest Guangxi is dominated by the unique "Na culture", and "Na space" is the typical spatial form of traditional villages corresponding to the Zhuang culture in this region. Based on the purpose of systematically summarising the ethnic cultural system of the Zhuang minority and establishing the overall Zhuang villages spatial morphology cognition, the study uses spatial syntax axis analysis to quantify the spatial morphology of the sample villages. The Zhuang of southwest Guangxi can be divided into stripes, clusters and scattered clusters according to the overall morphology, which correspond to the linear, the intersection of village and nature and the compact spatial relationship represented by "Na space". Combined with the overall spatial comprehensibility of the traditional Zhuang villages is less than 0.7, the difference between the ethnic nodes "Na space" and the core axis ranges from 0.05–0.5, with a certain range of data fluctuations and other quantitative results, it is proposed that the space of Zhuang villages is an ethnic characteristic "Na space" with a weak boundary in the overall morphology, a strong spatial in the order, and a high and flexible distribution of the node space.The results suggest that Zhuang villages space is an ethnic characteristic "Na space" with weak boundary, strong spatial order and high flexibility in node space distribution. The Zhuang ethnic group is the most populous ethnic group in China, and this study can provide reference for future international research on ethnic minorities and the spatial pattern of their traditional villages.