Yang, GuiqingXiao, Yinghe2023-06-202023-06-202019978-88-99243-93-7https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14235/314China, with organic corresponding relationships among cultural, social and spatial attributes. In these certain relationships, the most significant cultural spirit and social relationships are usually presented as the core public space. However, accompanied with the transition of the rural traditional social structure and cultural life, the core public space of rural settlements has been gradually forgotten and its physical environment has been abandoned by degrees because of the change of productivity and production relations. This research points out that with the approach called cultural staking, starting from the core public space of rural settlements as an acupoint can be an effective way to the village revitalization planning. Combined with the author’s practice experience in Shatan Village, Yutou Township, Huangyan District, Zhejiang Province, this research shows the effect of a creative spatial restoration and regeneration of the core public space with the cultural staking approach as a key.encultural stakingrural communitiescore public spacetransitionArticle1524-1535