Research On Ancestral Halls Of Guangfu Clan In Pearl River Delta

Through the development of economic, cultural, politics of Guangfu Clan in Pearl River Delta, accompanied with the developed patriarchal system, the ancestral halls deserves the highest rank of folk buildings, the best materials, the most delicate craft, the nucleus place. As times went on, more and more timeliness characteristics have merged in more and more ancestral halls. The object of this research is the ancestral halls which were connected by the blood relationship between the worshipper and the worshipped. This research will help the improvement of the study of local architecture, the protection of the traditional architecture, and will lay a good foundation for the times judgment of ancestral halls.Every cultural phenomenon has its profound history background, so does the architecture. The study on the history background of the main periods from Ming dynasty till Minguo dynasty can draw the reasons why the ancestral halls have been built so many and such delicate. In the mid and late Ming Dynasty, a ancestral hall boomed due to the policy of allowing people to build ancestral halls, the economic blooming, the procure of political position and etc. In early Qing Dynasty, the building of ancestral halls sank into all-time low due to the change of political power, the impacts of"moving far away from the sea". In mid Qing Dynasty, ancestral hall boomed again thanks to the blooming economics, the steady society. In late Qing Dynasty, the building of ancestral hall kept blooming thanks to the development of national capitalist economy, the government's try to recovering the propriety. In Minguo Period, the building of ancestral halls sank into all-time low again due to the shakable society, the collapse of patriarchal system. Every period ancestral halls has its own the timeliness characteristics as well as its political environment, aesthetic judgment.This research also devotes to the concluding of District Characteristics. From the plan to the section to the mould, Guangfu ancestral hall has its own colorful organizing plan forms, its unique roof beams, its own outward appearance such as ridge, wall and gates etc.The dec0ration forms help the outstanding district characteristics. Wood carving has been used in anywhere wood with the content of birds, flowers, fish, even figure story. Stone carving has been mainly used on gate bases, column bases etc, which has a clear times characteristic. Brick carving boomed in mid an late Qing Dynasty and Minguo Period, used on windows etc. Huisu, local craft, has been used widely on ridges, windows, walls etc.Such magical ancestral halls deserves the solicitude and protection. Meanwhile, ancestral hall is facing the decreasing and destroy during the modernization construction. The repair principle of"no changing regional situation"can be extended into the following principles: as much as lessening the unharmonious parts, as little as adding parts, readable newly repaired section, changeable repaired materials, and so on. The protection measurements of ancestral halls can be launched in reasonable usage.