The Research On The Relationship Between The Village Ancestral Temple And Human Settlements In GuangDong

Ancestral temple is the symbol of Chinese ancient clan system, the carrier of clan clucture and the vivid sign of clan consciousness. In rural areas, ancestral temple is the most important architecture where people offer sacrifices to their ancestors, hold collective activities and clan leaders administer their clan, which not only presents a clan's prosperity but also shows their clan's social status. The type, the construction technology, art value and craft features of ancestral temple, therefore, worth study to accentuate its importance in rural areas.Ever from Ming and Tsing Dynasty, as Ming Dynasty lift ban to the system of offering sacrifices to ancestos and the prosperous development of commercial economy in Guangdong area, necessary political and economic conditions were provided for the popularity and construction of ancestral hall. Villages followed by ancestral temple emerged in large quantities. The form and development of rural ancestral temple has concrete and all-round impact on people's living environment.By a lot of on-spot research of ancient villages and drawing lessons from other people's theory, the thesis adopts systematic research with different levels to analyse the relation of ancestral temple and people's living environment.From the prospective of people living environment, the villages are diviede into four levels, which are village space level, lane level, view level and people's architecture level. The thesis studies ancestral temple how to infulence people's living space in these four levels. In space level from the orientation of ancestral hall, space layout, growth and development rule of the villages are analysed. In lane level, from the perspective of what ancestral hall requires lanes, constructure form and space form are analysed to find out the link between ancestral temple and lane and what the link influences the lanes. In view level, village view levels and the elements of each level are analysed to show the important role the ancestral hall plays in the view of villages. In people's living house space level, the development of ancestral temple is analysed to find out the present space form of ancestral temple and the similarities of ancestral temple and people's living house. By the four-level analysis, a conclusion can be drawn that the rural ancestral temple is not independet, on the contrary, it has concrete relation with the people's living environment in the village.Under the circumstances, the thesis suggests the renewal concept of rural ancestral preventation and the activation of ancestral temple in the perspective of narrow and broard sense so that the ancestral temple has a positive spirit of times in the new socialist countryside construction.