CC BY 4.0Zhang, Yu2024-01-222024-01-222023978-908-28191-9-9https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14235/1244Book of proceedings: 35th AESOP Annual Congress Integrated planning in a world of turbulence, Łódź, 11-15th July, 2023This paper attempts to use the methods of oral history and morphological analysis to sort out the development of residents of Hui nationality in Xizhou Ancient Town since the late of the Qing Dynasty and explore its role in the evolution of the Xiuzhou Ancient Town. Then to summarize the relationship between national identity and the spatial form of daily life through the combination of the two aspects. Taking the lives of the Bai and Hui people in Xizhou under the background of tourism as a slice, this paper also makes considerations and critique on the impact of the cognitive way based on national identity on the traditional towns and villages in Yunnan. Keywords: national identify, public space, dwellings, traditional townEnglishopenaccessConference object910-924