Theorization Of Traditional Construction Technology In Chiangnan (from 1520s To 1920s)

This article inquiries into the theorization issue of traditional construction technology in Chiangnan area during Ming and Qing Dynasties time, especially discusses the process and representation of this theorization. Moreover, the article analyses the relation between the theorization of industry technology and the economic development in Chiangnan region, and promulgates the characteristic and significance of the industry technology modern reforming in the Chiangnan early time industrialization process. This article mainly utilize the "Technical Scientific Style" theory, and use the theory and method of the Technical History and the Historical Philology, to construct the explanation frame of the process of the theorization and development of construction technology in Chiangnan area during Ming and Qing Dynasties time. Simultaneously, this article has used the research technique of Region Society Economic History to discuss Chiangnan industry technology transformation and it's region characteristic. This article believed that the modern reforming of Chiangnan traditional construction technology had started in the later Ming Dynasty at least, and the Chiangnan construction technology has finally realized part transformation from tradition to modern, during the last stage of Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China. This transformation has manifested the successional variation process that the Chiangnan traditional construction technology has changed from the text, the rule to the discipline. In these three successional variation processes, the interaction, which between the mathematical quantification and the math of the traditional construction technology, have played the key role.