Analysis on the Village Landscape and the Civilian Residential Housing of Qiang Nationality in Taoping

In order to reflect the architectural form and its implicated cultural contonnation of the settlement of Qing nationality, the authors first analyze the background factors of its civilian residential housing, then through the investigation on-the-spot, list a certain number of concrete evidence material, and combining with the multidiciplinary knowledge of religion, history, folk custom, sociology and natural science, make a study on architecture from the two respects of utilization function and spiritual pursuit so as to reveal the relationship between the unique residential housing and its cultural implications. The analysis results show that the architectural form of a certain area is originated from the people's behavioral ways of this area and its cultural implications.