Regional Human Settlement Environmental Ethical Features of Dayi Liu’s Manor in the Western Sichuan Plain

¹ College of Landscape Architecture, Sichuan Agricultural University, No.211, Huimin Road, Wenjiang District, Chengdu, China
² Sichuan Guangyuan landscaping affairs center, Guangming Apartment, Dongba Binhe North Road, Guangyuan City, China

^* Corresponding author: xwenfeng@sicau.edu.cn

Abstract

Manors are the most representative human settlements in the history of Western Sichuan, with complete regional tradition and ethical order. As a protective heritage in the revitalization and development of rural areas, manors have been recognized as construction achievements for their artistic and practical references. This paper starts from the perspective of human settlement environmental ethics, focusing on the environmental ethical order between the microcosm of the residential environment of Liu’s Manor and the macrocosm of the regional pattern of the Western Sichuan Plain. The result shows that the environment characteristics of Liu’s manor, under the regional settlement pattern, actually are the images of human subjective ethical choice; gathering in an ideal environment, dispersing to the origin, and the integration of classical styles. On this basis, this study proposes a means through which to realize sustainable development in rural settlement construction in the process of modernization in China.