白马人是藏缅语族中文化形态独特的少数族群。分布在川甘两省交界地带的白马人聚居地,是一个相对独立的文化地理共同体。白马人聚居地是长江流域海拔较高的人类居住地带。也是我国西部生物.文化多样性两者兼得以保持完好的典型区域之一。本文试以四川省平武县若干白马人村落为研究样本,阐述了诸如村落与自然环境的融洽、乡土民居建筑与自然神崇拜等物质与意识形态文化景观的地域特色。
Baima people is a small but a unique ethnic group, of which population is only about 20,000. The settlement of Baima people located on the borderline between Sichuang and Gansu province is a relatively unattached community of cultural geography. This ethnic neighborhood is one of the human inhabitancy zones of Yangtze valley at higher elevation. This zone is also one of the representative regions, which preserved a great bio-cultural diversity in the west of China. The contemporary ethnic neighborhood of Baima people just was the umbilicus settlement area of the Di people in Han dynasty before about 2000 years. A Di person was one of the 5 important different nationalities in north China of that time. The geographic category of Baima ethnic settlement implies the agricultural landscape estabhshed on the smaU alluvial fans and the vale Champaign. Almost all the balconies of the houses in the Baima villages look on the place where appear the risen sun.The composition of the agrestic civil architecture in the Baima viUages racily incarnates the aboriginal rehgious devotion to the manito and naturism. Generally the beliefs of Baima People are natural religious beliefs based on believing that everything has spirit and which was the common form of the remote antiquity people's religious beliefs. On the basis of a case study in some Baima viUages in Sichuan province, this paper expounded the regional features of the culture-landscapes such as the perfect harmony between the villages and natural environment,the agrestie the civil construction in the village of Baima people, and so on.