The Aesthetic Culture of Chaoshan Overseas Chinese Residence Architecture in the Perspective of Tourism Landscape

Abstract

Chanshan, as one of the three major overseas Chinese regions in Guangdong, has been included in the national intangible cultural heritage list because of its unique construction techniques of ancient residential buildings. Based on the ontological study of Chaoshan’s overseas Chinese residential architecture, this paper analyzes the geographical, humanistic, and economic characteristics of the Chaoshan region from the overall characteristics of overseas Chinese residences, explores the causes of the formation of architectural forms by combining the theories of Confucianism, folk aesthetics, sociology, and attempts to analyze the aesthetic and cultural characteristics of the residential buildings in the context of Chaoshan culture and the community nature of the Chaoshan people – “All rivers run into the sea”, and to analyze the historical, cultural connotations and artistic values it contains. In addition, it explores the protection and inheritance strategy from the perspective of tourism landscape development, with a new to provide a reference for displaying the contemporary Chaoshan overseas Chinese tourism landscape and enriching cultural tourism. The architectural art of Chaoshan overseas Chinese dwellings is an epitome of traditional Chaoshan culture, and an in-depth study of the art of Chaoshan residential architecture is of positive and far-reaching significance in the conservation and development of Chinese cultural heritage.