The regional culture is the important foundation of traditional local-style dwelling houses characteristics.Taking Xu-anzhou ancient town of Hengyang City as an example,this article analysis the characteristics of the traditional local-style dwell-ings in Hunan province respectively from the plane layout,building materials,architectural color,facade,decoration details and other aspects with the breakthrough point of the inheritance and development of traditional local-style dwelling under the back-ground of new-tape urbanization.The article points out some problems in the process of inheritanc...