Identification of Characters of Cultural Landscape in Wuyishan National Park from the Perspective of Stratification

Abstract

: [Objective] China’s protected areas have dual attributes of nature and humanity. Cultural landscape, as a synthesis of humanistic material elements and their combination forms in the natural environment, reflects the relationship between man and nature at typical historical nodes. Foreign research on the cultural value of protected areas involves a number of fields. To effectively identify the cultural value of protected areas, it is necessary to combine the two methods of landscape character assessment (LCA) and historic landscape characterization (HLC), which can not only take full advantage of digital and spatial information technology, but also identify the types and characters of local historical landscape in a fully covered manner from the bottom up, thus providing a scientific basis for the identification of cultural value of protected areas. In China, the research on the cultural value of protected areas is mainly concentrated in the fields of scenic spots, traditional mountains and heritage sites, with the evaluation of spot scenic resources being the main research method for identification, while the analysis of the dynamic evolution characteristics of cultural landscape is lacking. The key to the spatial planning and the overall management and protection of natural protected areas in China is to identify the characters of cultural landscape systematically, objectively and visually, and to realize the regional and visual analysis. [Methods] Taking Wuyishan National Park as an example, this research, based on the dynamic and stratified characters of cultural landscape, adopts the methods of LCA and HLC in the landscape character identification stage to identify the characters of cultural landscape in multiple typical historical periods, interprets the stratified evolution process of cultural landscape in Wuyishan National Park in terms of time series structure, and defines the high-stratification cultural area, namely the area with the most significant cultural stratification characteristics. At the same time, considering that most domestic and foreign researches select identification elements from the two aspects of nature and culture, while paying