Research on Attachment Perception of Villagers to Traditional Village Landscape Under Tourism Development: A Case Study of Sideng Village, Shaxi Town, Yunnan Province

Traditional villages are important relics of Chinese agricultural civilization, with precious cultural heritage value. With the development of the times, many traditional villages have become tourism destinations for people to pursue leisurely rural life and cultural experience. Taking the Shaxi Sideng Village in Dali, Yunnan Province as a case, this research investigates and analyzes the villagers’ perception of traditional village landscape by means of attachment scale questionnaire and semi-structured interview. The results indicate that villagers have a strong attachment perception to the landscape that retains traditional features, natural simplicity and collective memory, and they have a weaker perception of landscape that has distinct changes in function, style and space pattern. Besides, their perception of functional dependence dimension is generally lower than that of emotional identity dimension. In response to these problems and findings, this research, based on the requirements of tourism and culture integrated development, puts forward specific strategies to improve the villagers’ place attachment and protect the village traditional cultural landscape.