The oriental archaeological sites and the composition of its local comunity : the practical thinking of XI'and large archaeological sites

Xi’an was chosen as capital city by 13 Chinese dynasties and regimes means a crucial area for Chinese history and the oriental civilization. Massive earthen and wooden structure archeological sites were preserved, underneath characterized which with large areas, significant value and hardly decipherable. In recent years, along with the urbanization and social and economic development, Xi’an has faced more pressure and challenge of cultural heritage conservation, and has explored several experiments to settle down these conflicts. In this situation, IICC-X was kept his eyes on the discussions and research of measures and methods for the protection and management of the large monuments and sites in Xi’an. This paper examines four different physical types of archeological sites in Xi’an, which are large cross-district archeological site of Chang’an city of Han Dynasty, large district archeological site of Daming Palace in Chang’an City of Tang Dynasty, discontinuous lineal archeological site of City Wall of Sui and Tang Dynasty and single archeological site of West Market of Chang’an City of Tang Dynasty. Through analyzing the current protection and management pressure, archaeological results and conservation project and the composition of local community, the author would like point out the relation between the oriental archeological sites and its local communities. Through case study, it comes clear that the promotion of conservation of archeological sites could increase identifiability of the site, which will encourage awareness of heritage for local residents, and provide the local communities’ cultural function, and brings up the cultural identity and cultural belonging of the region. Meanwhile, the consciousness and responsibility for cultural heritage conservation by local communities would be a positive and fundamental power to drive and supervise theconservation. As a conclusion, the oriental earthen and wooden archeological sites experienced thousand years of history and under grounded, which are hardly to decipherable. Hence, the residents from the sites local communities are very week to link their cultural identification and cultural belonging to the cultural heritage. The cultural heritage conservation and interpretation project should become a positive way to improve the relationship between the oriental archaeological sites and their local communities. But when the conservation works were carrying out, the local community must be faced a process of adjustment due to physical changing of the sites, and this changing will be a positive to the forming of the cultural identification of the local community if it is in a appropriate way