Abstract:

Abstract：Traditional villages, often regarded as "living fossils" of China's rich traditional culture, possess abundant natural resources. While tourism development generates material wealth, it also leads to the capitalization of space production and poses a crisis to cultural heritage within these villages. The real contradictions between tourism development and cultural protection, along with the material manifestations and spiritual absences under capital dominance, are evident in the landscape, institutional, and spiritual aspects of the cultural space in traditional villages. There is a coexistence of tourism-driven poverty alleviation and destructive spatial exploitation, a pursuit of operational profit alongside antagonistic spatial contention, and a conflict between the monetization of collective memory and the commodification of space. Scene Theory provides a theoretical basis for analyzing the causes of production tension within the cultural space of traditional villages. The aesthetic expression disorder in cultural landscape space, the entropy increase of identity recognition in cultural institutional space, and the value positioning disorder in cultural spiritual space lead to a lack of scene dynamics. To break free from the domination of capital logic and return to the essence of cultural affluence, achieving a true sense of cultural tourism in traditional villages is essential. This can be accomplished by empowering cultural landscape aesthetics with technology, ensuring genuine cultural life through fair institutions, and exploring the value of traditional culture through comprehensive human development, thereby promoting cultural revitalization.

Key words: traditional villages, cultural space, Scene Theory, cultural affluence, rural village , governance