By utilizing materials obtained from the field investigation,tourism development of Gucheng Village was analyzed from the history and status quo of tourism industry as well as the inevitability of developing tourism industry in Gucheng Village,cultural changes of the village during the tourism development were introduced and analyzed mainly from 5 perspectives:participation of donkey,language change,religion,morality,villagers' knowledge of cultures of Buddhism in ancient Gaochang.It was believed that tourism industry was an important approach to improve present living conditions of villagers,enlarging the scale of tourism industry was an important way of changing production mode of villagers,and negative influence of tourism development should be attached sufficient importance by relevant departments,consumption concepts of villagers should be guided properly,and all regions of minorities should pay attention to the protection and utilization of local characteristic cultures.
