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This research is part of the "Ancient Xuzhou Houses in China: Cultural Memory, Symbol and Process Reconstruction in the Context of Rural Revitalization" project. Traditional houses contain a large amount of cultural value, literacy role, and historical memory. In order to sort out the transfer process more clearly between memory and people, this study set three research objectives. First, spatial memory transmission and literacy role needs to be studied and analyzed. Then, on this basis, we will further study the method of spatial memory transmission and literacy role. Finally, the appropriate medium for spatial memory transmission is analyzed. This study used descriptive analysis to summarize and discuss the results. The results show that spatial memory transmission and literacy is a process of maintaining and transmitting social and cultural values through the use and evolution of architecture and spatial design over time. Symbols in the memory space of residential buildings are containers for storing memories, just like a mobile hard drive that records relevant memory information. Residential buildings and people are like two devices that convey information and communicate through symbols. After comparison, in the dimension of cultural memory, symbols are more social and cultural and are more suitable as a medium for transmitting spatial memory and literacy role under cultural identity. This article explains the relationship between symbols and spatial memory, through spatial memory transmission to describe how common memories are shared and reproduced among collective members through cultural memory, literacy role and symbolic translation. It can transmit cultural and historical memories between different generations and acquires the importance of spatial positioning and environmental interaction in transmitting cultural memory.

This qualitative investigation examines the layers of meaning associated with the baisri, a traditional Buddhist sacrificial offering. Documentary review and field research was conducted with local people, monks, pilgrims and tourists in Kham Chanod, the spiritual home of the legendary Naga in Northeastern Thailand. The findings reveal that the baisri culture is flourishing in this remote corner of Thailand owing to a resurgence in the popularity of the site following the success of a Thai movie about the Naga. Huge quantities of traditional baisri are now traded in the region, but the original religious meanings of the object continue. Artisans retain the original religious symbolism of the baisri, and visitors value the spiritual meaning of the object. However, a new secular function of the object has emerged with its newfound economic importance to the local community. This article discussed that dichotomy between the secular and the sacred through the lens of the baisri. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This is a qualitative investigation to study and analyze the meanings of the Patuxai Monument in Vientiane, Laos, in the context of the historical and sociocultural dimensions of Laos from 1957 to the present. The researchers used the concept of semiology by Ferdinand de Saussure to explain the Patuxai Monument as signifier and signified. Data was gathered from documentary review and field study in Vientiane. Findings show that Patuxai Monument has been used as a symbol that gives multiple meanings according to the political ideology of the period. Three distinct periods are identified when Patuxai had unique architectural identities, but it also grew as a symbolic structure signifying the economic and social relationships connecting Laos and the international world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]