Analyzing Architectural and Cultural Dong Minority Ethnic Wisdom through Dong Villages’ Drum Towers at Tongdao County in the Pingtan River Basin

Abstract

Designing a qualitative research method to gain an in-depth understanding of the wisdom, and embedding in the Dong ethnic minority village group's Drum Towers, selected six representative villages from Tongdao County in the Pingtan River Basin, and to investigate the wisdom surrounding their Drum Towers indicates that understanding the rich cultural connotations to be achieved toward their perspectives and evidence by the local craftsmanship wisdom roles who have designed, invented, and built them. A comprehensive analysis and review of architectural and traditional cultures from historical, cultural, and societal perspectives to shed light on various components of Dong ethnic heritages. It was strongly affected by factors: the total output value of industrial enterprises above the designated size, and the sculpture values. The wisdom of the Drum Towers is divided into six components: selecting a location, materials, craftsmanship, decoration, functionality, and believable. Combinations of the theories: human-land relationship, field research, and literature collection, predominantly synthesized these six components of the Dong monitory villages' group wisdom are differentiated into two architectural pattern designs. The main components are inventive architectural pattern styles by the previous generation to the next general, continuously. The creation and planning to design an architectural tower with a solid foundation and local wood for Dong's traditional and architectural cultures, and inventing advancement, preservation, and development sustainable. The local pearls of wisdom of the Drum Towers in Dong villages’ architectural group are comprehensive, practical, and inheritable.