The characteristics and mechanisms of the evolution of traditional village landscape restoration under the power of digital technology: A case study of Zhangguying village in Yueyang city, Hunan province

Landscape restoration serves as a pivotal means of promoting and disseminating traditional Chinese culture. In the New Era of rural digitalization, how to leverage digital empowerment in traditional village landscape restoration has emerged as a pressing scientific issue critical to facilitating the creative transformation and innovative development of traditional Chinese culture. By using in-depth interviews, GIS spatial analysis, point cloud data extraction and other methods, based on the connotation and characteristics of traditional village landscape restoration and the underlying structure of digital countryside, an analytical framework for the evolution of traditional village landscape restoration under the power of digital technology was constructed. In addition, taking Zhangguying village in Hunan province as a case study, the characteristics and driving mechanisms of its landscape restoration evolution under the power of digital technology have been explored. The research shows that: (1) The evolution of traditional village landscape restoration under the power of digital technology is to incorporate traditional village landscape restoration into the digital information network system, showing the process of integrating the physical space and virtual space of landscape restoration. (2) The evolution of landscape restoration in Zhangguying village exhibits the following characteristics: Streamlining of communication for landscape restoration objects, precision in the presentation of restoration subjects, virtualization of derived functions, and the overall integration of virtual and physical entities. (3) The mechanism of landscape restoration evolution features is the driving mechanism for the development of new tourism formats, which connects the development factors of information technology, the driving factors of digital policies, and the changing factors of consumer demand to the evolution of digital landscape restoration. The three factors are independent and interrelated, and they work together to form a multi-level driving mechanism. With the goal of promoting the excellent traditional Chinese culture, this paper explores the characteristics and mechanisms of the landscape restoration and evolution of traditional villages, under the aegis of digital technology. It aspires to furnish novel insights, methodologies, and avenues for the creative transformation and innovative advancement of the excellent traditional Chinese culture.