From the perspective of humanities,connotations of landscape culture and cultural landscape were elaborated,components,types and characteristics of both were compared.In terms of component,cultural landscape in narrow sense can be interpreted as the intangible component of landscape culture;in terms of type,all types of cultural landscapes have corresponding landscape cultures;in terms of characteristics,both of them are independent and inclusive with regionality,accumulation and inheritance of the old,but landscape culture is hysteretic and stable while cultural landscape is unstable.Essence correlation,development correlation,coexistence correlation and mutual-transformation between landscape culture and cultural landscape were demonstrated.Considering landscape culture and cultural landscape as a constantly-evolving open theory system,it was proposed that inconformity of them has been formed in the historic development and "human" factor has always been an essential element.Under certain circumstances,cultural landscape and landscape culture were able to transform mutually.
As urbanization continues, traditional villages are confronted by the conflict between protection and development, especially for ancient villages in living envi- ronment. China landscape is so vast, dominated by rural areas. Human settlement environment of ancient villages is so important for studying domestic human settle- ment environment, including ancient structure analysis and eco-resource organization. The research explored Xichong Village, Sikou Town, Wuyuan County and detailed how to improve its environment, providing references for ancient village development in settlement environment.
