“Scenes” updating the cultural landscape of villages along the Grand Canal under the all media communication*

Abstract

The rural cultural landscape along the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal encompasses such tangible objects as water conservancy legacy projects, rural settlements, rural ecology and productive and natural landscape as well as such intangible contents as rural culture, conventions, handcrafts, biography and legends, forming unique linear legacies that boast high research values. The present paper made a field investigation into the typical villages along the South Canal and analyzed the current problems to explore the local cultural landscape resources and environmental conditions. It proposes to probe into the thinking philosophy to upgrade and design the “scenes” in the rural cultural landscape along the Grand Canal from the perspective of all media communication in hopes of broadening the idea of rural cultural landscape protection along the canal and offering references for the protection and inheritance of the characteristic rural culture thereof.