On the Construction of "field of memory" under the Nostalgia for the Missing Countryside —Taking the Ancient Town of Fengzhou as an Example

The construction and development of historical towns, as one aspect of the historical process, have gathered a wide range of collective memories from the development of human society. Relative historical towns have also become regional, large-scale, multi-system built environmental heritage in the course of historical development. At present, fragmented historical towns have lost their original field, leading to the corresponding historical memories having no roots, and nostalgia arises accordingly. In response, based on the "memory field" theory, an attempt is made to explore the historical towns' social memory from multiple aspects, creating memory fields from three scales: town area, urban area, and place, to reactivate the fragmented historical towns. Furthermore, taking the ancient town of Fengzhou as an example, many historical memories are explored, and the memory field is constructed from three dimensions. From the perspective of social memory, the paper explores the practical issues of memory construction and environmental renovation in historical towns, providing a reference for the renewal of similar historical towns.