Historical changes of settlement space and the influence of native ideology: Studies on structure of settlement space of northeast China

This paper aims to clarify the historical changes of settlement space of northeast China, and the influence of native ideology on the structure of settlement space. We tried field survey on 3 settlements in Qian gang xiang, Nang an xian, Chang chun di qu, ii lin sheng. The history of the settlement is very short, only 200 years. Before the location of the settlement, the land of this area was used by nomads. The history of the settlement has experienced five main periods as follows; 1) Early age of settlement, from 1800 to 1912 2) Middle age of settlement, from 1912 to 1930 3) Before foundation of new China, from 1930 to 1949 4) Early age of foundation-Great progress-Before liberation, from 1949 to 1978 5) Age of liberation, from 1978 to now From analysing above, we found that the history of the settlement had been influenced by polytical power, and the structure of the settlement space had also been influenced by polytical ideology. The native ideology of Fengshui and Confucianism had remained very long time in the mind of peasants, and had strongly influenced to the structure of the settlement space, especially to the location of the settlement, plantation around the graveyard, celebration for the repose of souls, and the layout of houses and other facilities.