CORP – Competence Center of Urban and Regional Planning
Doi
Abstract
As the multicultural fusion area, Guangxi, China has twelve nationalities who live here for generations,
including Han, Zhuang, Dong and Miao, etc. The cultural fusion among various ethnic groups is prominent,
and has representative characteristics on multiculturalism and research value on rural heritage. As one of the
carriers of culture, rural settlement heritage maintains the genetic characteristics of cultural “gene” in the
process of inheritance. The laws are presented based on different expressions of material and non-material
elements, and reflect the logic and order of the evolution of rural settlement heritage. Through the
investigation of ethnic minority rural settlements in Liuzhou, Guangxi, this paper clarifies the construction
logic of genetic map for rural settlement heritage. In addition, the excavation, identification, extraction of
genetic elements and the construction of genetic map are carried out for representative rural heritage. Finally,
this paper summarizes the research methods of rural settlement heritage genes in multicultural fusion areas of
ethnic minorities. At the same time, it provides direction for the protection and sustainable development of
rural settlement heritage, and guides the development of rural planning in some degree
