Abstract:  (Background and Purpose) The Huizhou West Lake is representative of the Lingnan local public landscape garden and an important part of the local human settlement. Edification of individuals is one of the most basic functions of the Huizhou West Lake landscape. Edification of the Huizhou West Lake landscape reflects the relationship of landscape with the practical lives of locals. Such relationship is key to understanding landscape and cultural characteristics of the Huizhou West Lake. (Method) Research on edification of the ancient Huizhou landscape integrates the history of landscape architecture and social history. Based on existing studies concerning landscape and edification, this study used academic principles and theoretical techniques to study social history. The study of social history has shifted its attention from social elites and political history to ordinary individuals and their social lives. It advocates for a "bottom-up" approach to review history and mainly employs historical anthropology methods. This approach requires understanding of events and their significance within a specific cultural context from the perspective of all parties involved. The daily life theory in the study of social history divides society into three basic domains: 1) the knowledge and wisdom domain of science, art, philosophy, and other activities; 2) the institutional domain of politics, economics, and other public affair activities; 3) the daily life domain focused on survival and reproduction activities. Such structure provides a basic framework for the classification and characterization of landscape edification carriers. (Results) Based on the combination of conceptual connotations of landscape and edification, this study concluded that inter-subjective interactions in landscapes was the inherent theoretical connection between landscape architecture history and social history in research on ancient landscape edification. Landscape edification constantly centers on the subject ("human being"). Physical landscape materials become the edification carrier since they carry interaction activities among subjects. As a characteristic of edification carriers, landscape is the fundamental concern of landscape edification. Based on academic principles and theoretical methods from the study of social history, the ancient landscape edification carriers of the Huizhou West Lake can be divided into three basic types: "natural development objects", "social ritual places", and "artistic transmission media". Furthermore, each type of landscape edification carrier of the Ancient Huizhou West Lake were at different stages, and the corresponding elements were reproduced. Finally, the basic features of landscape edification carriers were extracted and elaborated from the subject’s perspective (locals), including survival-dominated, politics-edification integration, and form synthesis. Based on the classification of landscape edification carriers of the Huizhou West Lake, the physical landscape elements of nature, society, and art have fundamental relationships with production development, ceremony, artistic, and cultural transmission in the daily lives of the public. Interpreting the characteristics of landscape edification carriers of the Huizhou West Lake based on public perspectives and the relationship between the public and daily significance of the landscape is a supplementation to previous cultural interpretation. Research on the landscape of the Huizhou West Lake mainly emphasizes influences of "major" events and figures. The public are the subjects created by history. Research on social history pays attention to microscopic visions and methods of the daily lives of ordinary individuals, and provides a new theoretical method and practical means to study and understand the cultural characteristics of local public landscape architectures. This study has generated insights into the cultural development and transmission of the Huizhou West Lake and relevant tourist attractions. Landscape edification is not limited to narrow-sense spaces like academia and temples. Natural landscapes and "eight scenic" art text landscape edification carriers play different roles in social edification. These three types of carriers form a complete system. Landscape edification should consider carriers and the relationship between individuals and landscape in daily life. The cultural transmission of tourist attractions may strengthen publicity based on various new forms of media and the organization of field activities based on the daily lives of the public. 

Key words: history of landscape architecture, ancient landscape, Huizhou West Lake, landscape edification, daily life, the public, social history

摘要： 古代惠州西湖风景是当地民众人居环境的重要组成部分，教化民众是其基本功能之一。通过综合风景与教化已有研究成果，指出古代风景教化研究中风景园林史与社会史交叉研究的内在理论关联和风景作为教化载体的类型特征是实现风景教化基本的研究问题。借鉴社会史研究的学术视野和理论方法，将惠州西湖风景教化载体划分为“自然开发对象”“社会仪式场所”和“艺术传播媒介”三种基本类型，并以当地民众为主体视角，提炼和阐释西湖风景教化载体生存主导、政教融合以及形式综合的基本特征。有助于揭示古代风景与民众生存生活的关系，理解风景教化功能的基础，为现代风景名胜的文化传播和培育发展提供一定的历史经验。

关键词: 风景园林史, 古代风景, 惠州西湖, 风景教化, 日常生活, 民众, 社会史