Adaptation to Droughts and Floods: Construction Mechanisms and Contemporary Enlightenment — A Case Study of Traditional Villages in Taihang Mountains

The ancestors of the Taihang Mountains perfectly integrated water collection, storage, water use, and drainage into the construction of the village space according to the local conditions, providing core support for the agricultural civilization to cope with the regional environment where droughts and floods coexist, reflecting rich ecological wisdom and humanistic connotation. The construction wisdom among them also has important reference significance for modern urban ecological construction. The paper took traditional villages in the Taihang Mountains as an example, by using the methods of induction and summary and typical example analysis. This paper abstracted five points of adaptive construction wisdom of village drought and flood disasters, include the overall ecological pattern of villages based on the consideration of "seek advantages and avoid disadvantages", the village water falling organization system integrating "water storage and drainage", the multi-functional composite space taking into account the situation of "drought and flood", the drought and flood self-balancing facilities integrating the needs of "production and life" and forming a non-institutional humanistic concept of regulating the "human-water" relation. Finally, the paper proposed enlightenment and reference for contemporary urban and rural construction from three aspects: systematic thinking, integration strategy and the construction theory.