中文摘要：

长江三角洲沙上地区是指由长江泥沙堆积形成的地区，即狭义的自然地理意义上的长江三角洲地区。这一地区具有非常鲜明的文化景观特点，突出表现为典型的一字形村落空间布局特征。其特点有三：一为前后平阔，空间感好，使人心胸宽阔；二为家在坝上，门前垫土成场，俗称”场坎”，高敞干燥，有利卫生；三为家家朝南成埭，有利接收阳光，户户屋前种植桃李，屋后栽种翠竹，宅基前后均有河流，取水方便，四周围以绿篱，自成格局，形成江南另一种小桥流水的沙上文化景观。语言和饮食等构成文化景观的软物质内容也非常有特色。

英文摘要：

Shashang Area in the Yangtze River Delta refers to the region formed by the accumulation of the Yangtze River sediment, namely Yangtze River Delta in the narrow sense of physical geography. Owing to its relatively backward economy and relatively weak culture, Shashang Area was almost a blank field in cultural studies of Jiangsu Province. In fact, this area has many quite distinctive features of cultural landscapes, outstandingly reflected by the spatial layout characteristics of villages that they neatly line up a line. Overall, there are three characteristics of Shashang Area. Firstly, front and rear areas are plat and open, increasing the sense of space and making people broad-minded. Secondly, houses settled on dams, and courts are built with soil padded on in front of doors, commonly known as ＂court-ridge＂. Thirdly, houses sat on the earthen dam totally face south that is favorable for receiving sunshine. In front of these houses, plum trees and peach trees are planted, while bamboos are at the back, which is convenient to fetch water. Fences around houses separate one house from another. This spatial pattern of Shashang Area forms another South China cultural landscape of small bridges and flowing rivers. This special settlement pattern is originated from the process that ancestors reclaimed Yangtze River beaches step by step. From the perspective of macro-scale, the research on the culture of Shashang Area of Yangtze River Delta is important not only to the cultural construction of Jiangsu Province, but also to the construction of the whole cultural geographical pattern of the Yangtze River Delta, while Shashang Area owns unique and inclusive culture, and portal location and fast-growing economy.as well. It is exactly the existence of its portal location that makes the economy of Shashang Area has increased quickly in recent years. As the advantage of Shashang Area being along Yangtze River （port） functions better, its cultural connotation is expected to be greatly enhanced on the basis of fast-grow