Abstract: Taking the protection of traditional villages in Northern Jiangsu as the research object, the theoretical perspectives of cultural geography, environmental ecology and other integrated disciplines were introduced by using the thinking of system theory. Systematic and structural sorting and construction were carried out from four parts of disciplinary theoretical resources,policy theoretical resources, specialized research theoretical resources and practical theoretical resources, aiming to further form a constructive theoretical resource model for reference and provide a theoretical basis and demonstration premise for the choice of traditional village protection path in Northern Jiangsu.

Key words: traditional village, Northern Jiangsu, protection path, theoretical resource, basic research