Abstract:
As a primitive way of social living, villages have promoted the social civilization of clan blood in the development of human history. Also, it is the source of human habitation in the way of construct and living. While the existing research on village protection places emphasis on traditional villages with historic values, villages have its social attributes as the carrier of rural social construction. Distinguished with ‘traditional village’, coming up with a defnition of ‘existing village’ flls in the blank of the evaluation of the social aspect of a village. First, the paper summarizes the current research results of villages in China to determine a defnition of ‘existing village’. Then the application evaluation for protection and utilization of existing villages is constructed, based on the research of traditional villages and related research on social and cultural literature. Last, taking Xidazhuangke village in Beijing Yanqing competition area of 2022 Winter Olympic Games as a case, this paper concludes the focus of its transformation and the strategic for the next specifc designing work.