TITLE:
A Study on the Construction and Practice of the “Five Dimension Three Stage” Model from the Perspective of Intangible Cultural Heritage Symbiosis Empowering Rural Revitalization —A Case Study of Banshan Village in Hangzhou
AUTHORS:
Jingwen Lu, Yumeng Chen, Zixuan Xue
KEYWORDS:
Intangible Cultural Heritage Symbiosis, Rural Revitalization, Five Dimension Three Stage Model, Living Inheritance, Collaborative Governance
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Access Library Journal,
Vol.13 No.11,
November
13,
2026
ABSTRACT: Against the strategic background of comprehensively promoting rural revitalization and strengthening the systematic protection and inheritance of intangible cultural heritage (ICH), the integration of living ICH inheritance and rural development serves as an important path for rural cultural revitalization. ICH villages generally face practical bottlenecks including insufficient factor coordination, ambiguous development paths, loose benefit linkages among multiple stakeholders and superficial digital empowerment. Taking Banshan Village, Baizhang Town, Yuhang District, Hangzhou as a case, this paper adopts literature review, field investigation, questionnaire and interview, case study and action research to construct a “Five-Dimension Integration—Three-Stage Progression” analytical framework. The five dimensions were pre-defined based on literature review and theoretical deduction, and interview coding was used to refine and supplement this framework. Partial modules of the framework were selected for a six-month small-scale action research pilot. Pilot outcomes preliminarily verify the feasibility of the components actually tested in this study, demonstrating that lightweight digital tools, themed spatial renovation and multi-stakeholder collaboration help revitalize idle rural resources and promote the integration of agriculture, culture and tourism. The effectiveness of full three-stage implementation, villagers’ income growth effect and cross-village transferability of the model remain unverified. Purposive case selection is adopted in this study, and the case site receives strong local policy support; such contextual conditions constrain the generalizability of the findings. This study provides phased pilot references for similar hilly bamboo-forest ICH villages and enriches the micro-mechanism analysis of ICH-empowered rural revitalization.