Traditional Villages Conservation of Ganzi Tibetan Area: A Study in Perspective of Cultural Consciousness

As a new form of cultural heritages, traditional villages are the carrier of Khampa Tibetan culture. This article takes Ganzi Tibetan Area as an example, points out that protecting and taking good advantage of traditional villages is basically the process to gradually achieve “cultural consciousness” in the whole society. On the basis of cultural consciousness, it should establish the system and mechanism for the traditional villages’ inheritance of value and the sustainable development. As the three cultural subjects, the government, the society, and the villagers should play different roles in this process. The long-term mechanism for the traditional villages conservation of “government-led, society-participated, villagers-dominated” should be established and developed.