The revitalization of traditional villages is of great significance to promoting the high-quality development of urban and rural areas and building a cultural power. Taking Chaohua village, Xinmi city, Henan province as an example, this paper uses the theoretical core of cultural ecology for reference, highlights the core role of actors, constructs the evaluation index system of living development level from the three elements of "material, culture and core", and uses AHP and weighted summation method for quantitative evaluation. The research shows that: (1) The score of Chaohua village's living development level is 63.7709, which belongs to the general type of "inactivation", with the highest score of core elements, followed by material elements, and the lowest score of cultural elements. (2) Facing the realistic dilemma of mutual correlation and negative circulation, such as the double contradiction of material elements, the double restriction of cultural elements, and the double imbalance of core elements. (3) The influencing factors are as follows: the contradiction between the advantages and disadvantages of the basic support of material elements, the restriction of the lack of carrier and activation of the intermediary transmission of cultural elements, the imbalance between high recognition and low governance driven by core elements, and the superposition of weak positive linkage and strong negative circulation of the interaction and coordination of elements. (4) The activation path adheres to the activation principle of preserving the originality of local characteristics, restoring the integrity of traditional features, and promoting the vitality of sustainable development, and proposes the activation path of ecological industry, digital inheritance, and governance and operation based on the synergy of "material, culture and core" elements.
Xu et al. (Thu,) studied this question.