Study On The Architecture Of Hancheng Town-god Temple

The Town-god had been the god of annihilating the malefactor, protecting nation, supervising dark hell, safeguarding civilian. The belief of Town-god had belong to the folk god beliefs of local on the ancient time. The architecture is one of the most important religion architecture in the ancient Chinese.The paper studies Town-god temple of Hancheng. It located on the northeast of Hancheng, which is one of the famous history and culture cities on the nation level. It is publicized as the fifth nation level cultural relic units by the State Department. The architecture is magnificence and its form is intact. It is the deputation in the architecture of Town-god temples. The study work can enrich the treasury of folk religion architecture. At the same time, it can provide a detailed datum for the study on the protecting famous history and culture city of nation level.Under the culture of the Town-god, the paper discusses and demonstrates the history evolution, location and environment, the whole layout, single architecture, detail characteristics of Town-god temple of Hancheng. On the base of analyzing and contrasting architectures' status quo, the paper discusses reversion of architectures' layout of Town-god temple, and puts forward that the meaning of reversion and protection is protect the history value of Town-god temple of Hancheng. The paper points out that the protection work of Town-god temple of Hancheng must under the direction of the city, and the work need us work together for a long tune.