Comparative Study of the Defense Layout in Traditional Villages of Cantonese and Hakka in Conghua District of Guangzhou

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10.2991/icesame-16.2016.194How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Conghua; Cantonese villages; Hakka villages; Defense layout

Abstract

Located in central Guangdong, Conghua is the cultural district junction of Cantonese and Hakka. Although Cantonese and Hakka are located in the same place, the traditional village forms between them are different sharply, especially in the defense layout. Based on the information from the field investigation of the traditional villages, this paper makes comparative study om Cantonese and Hakka traditional villages in terms of location, spatial pattern and defensive structure, etc., which concludes the similarities and differences of defense layout between Cantonese and Hakka traditional villages and attempts to analyze the reason.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Zhijun Chen
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TI  - Comparative Study of the Defense Layout in Traditional Villages of Cantonese and Hakka in Conghua District of Guangzhou
BT  - Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Education, Sports, Arts and Management Engineering
PB  - Atlantis Press
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