Huizhou Architectural Art Features And Aesthetic Characteristics Of Study

Huizhou lies in the south of Anhui province; surrounded by Huang Mountain and Xinan River. The history of Huizhou is long. The towns were established as early as Qin and Han dynasty. It was called Xinan Town in Wei, Jin, South and North dynasty. It was called Shezhou in Sui, Tang, Five period dynasty. It was called Huizhou in North Song dynasty., including six towns of Shexian, Xiuning, Qimen, Yixian, Jixi, and Wuyuan. Therefore, Huizhou is a concept of region and history. The architecture in Huizhou developed early. Until Ming and Qing dynasty, the development of architecture was prosperous. Then the architecture in Huizhou had formed an artistic style of regional cultural character., that was an important architectural school in Long River. Among remains on the ground, in Huizhou, the ancient architecture is the most characteristics.Huizhou is one of the areas of ancient houses and villages. As early as 1950's, professor Dunzhen Liu had published essays introducing Huizhou architecture. Since 1980's,there were many scholars are engaged in investigating and researching. Most fruits aims at economic of Huizhou businessman, Huizhou ancient villages and examples of Huizhou architecture.In recent years, the research on Huizhou architecture is concentrated at universities, colleges, science research institution and so on. Among these, the researcher in architecture field pay attention to recording truly building matters. Their main research method is measure. They record carefully ancient architectures' measure, structure. The main value of their research is protect ancient architecture. However, their research focuses on architecture itself, and pay less attention on outer atmosphere.The research object of my dissertation is different from other researchers. The dissertation starts at the development rules of architecture, and expands research eyesight from architecture to outer aspects such as region economy, culture, art aesthetic, and analyses aesthetic features of Huizhou ancient architecture from the aspects of art and culture. There are three reasons of choosing this dissertation:One, this dissertation links art archeology and art history and aesthetic; taking use of my research superiority, trying research activity on folded subjects; that is a weak link in the subject.Two, the past research did not start at art or culture angle. This dissertation will change research ways.Three, the past research looked architecture as engineering fruits. This dissertation will expose aesthetic features from the angle of architecture culture.This dissertation try to change research angle. The main research object is Huizhou architecture in Ming and Qing dynasty. The theory reliance is history records and books on Huizhou. Meanwhile, by the way of field investigation, researches artistic characters and aesthetic features of houses, ancestral halls, reading houses, gardens in Huizhou.The whole dissertation consists of these parts as follows:The introduction introduces architecture history in Huizhou, research tendency, and research aims.The chapter one introduces main types and decorations of Huizhou architecture., including development history, places of remains, and architecture decoration.The chapter two to five analyses aesthetic features of main type of Huizhou architecture that bases on common analysis.The chapter two discusses art characters and aesthetic features of houses in Huizhou., and compares Huizhou architecture to other regions on the aspects of plan, exterior , decoration, aesthetic features and so on. The compared object is houses in Dongshan, Suzhou.As common schools of houses in Jiangnan, houses in Huizhou and in Suzhou have similar development rules, but two regions have different region architecture characters on concrete style. When choosing regions, there are integrate residences in Dongshan, Suzhou. These houses compare reaearch. Furthermore, there is a famous saying in Jiangnan in Ming an Qing dynasty. This matter expose that the two regions has similar houses style on background culture. So, this comparison can help us analyses deeply the reasons of architecture aesthetic culture of Huizhou from the angle of regional culture.The chapter three analyses institution architecture in Huizhou; discusses artistic characters and aesthetic features of ancestral halls and paifang.The chapter four analyses artistic characters and aesthetic features of gardens in Huizhou from the aspects of art and aesthetic by the track of building ways.The chapter five introduces briefly artistic characters and aesthetic features of reading houses, because I am lacing in well-protected cases.The chapter six analyses the formation reasons of Huizhou architecture, including the formation from background, history and culture background, and businessmen's culture .Then gathers the whole aesthetic features of architecture in Huizhou.This dissertation takes advantage of these research methods as follows:One, I limit the domain of research. I limit the architecture domain in Ming and Qing dynasty.Two, according to the aims of research, my main research cases are that can reflect characters of architecture in Huizhou . I give up the way of researching every aspects.Three, the famous architecture scholar considers, although collecting and introducing cases is a method, the relation between architecture and circumstance can not be ignored. This dissertation will discuss architecture itself more deeply by way of connecting architecture and geology, economy, culture, not only including the relation between system and circumstance, but also including the facts of geology, economy, culture, society and so on.Four, this dissertation takes use of the method of comparison. Because the character of everything lies in comparison between it and other things.There are two aspects of theory aim in this dissertation .Firstly , the dissertation analyze artistic and aesthetic features of Huizhou architecture more wholly and systematically .This analysis is based on field investigations .Secondly, as far as development rules of architecture are concerned, the changes of architecture styles are affected by politics, economic, culture etc. Architecture is art type that can reflect situation of politics, economic, culture. This dissertation aims at development rules of architecture, expands research sight from architecture to outside aspects such as field economic, culture, aesthetic; and researches aesthetic features of Huizhou architecture from sides of art and human culture. The dissertation explains deeply the Huizhou architecture itself. Not only analyzes artistic features on the basis of examples, but also compares the whole Huizhou architecture system with outside surroundings. Meantime, it explains architecture and Huizhou society more inseparable, that contains the effect of geography, history, culture and society.