| The process of urbanization is accerelating with the overwhelming development of urban’s economy.In this case, it is an inevitable question for every city with long-history, which is how to preserve its urbanculture heritages when confronting with urbanization. Xu Chang city, Known as ‘Capital city of Han andWei Dynasty’ and ‘resort of three country period’, which is a proviencial scale long history city withconsiderable number of urban culture heritages, is also challenge with the same problem. Before solvingthe problem of how to protect the urban culture heritages underthrough the process of urbanization, it isbetter to figure out what is urban culture heritage? As well as which kinds of urban culture heritages shouldbe preserved?In order to do this, based on both literature reviews of current academic reserch results andself-understandings on this problem, the author started with re-recognization of connotation of city bygiving the definition of concept of urban culture heritage. For one thing, from the perspective of regionaldefinition of urban culture heritage, it means heritages which exist in urban curtural space, it involves withboth material and non-material forms, and it also embrases the histroic and cultural environment which isformed by the development of these culture heritages. In this article. The definition of the scale of urbancultural space is the area, which covers the core (the city centre), and towns and villages which are withinthe surrounding suburbs, offer various services with certain capacities of cultural and economic radiation.Another, as for the cutural connotation, urban culture heritage reflects the city’s cultural and historicalcontext, the production and living status of urban inhabitants (urban residentials’ material production andliving, spiritial and cultural life and so forth) and together with the whole feature of city’s history.Given by the analysis of the fomation of Xu Chang city culture heritages’ environment, the author gavea clear definition of Xu Chang city’s culture heritages. Xu Chang culture heritage is gradually formedduring the history of Xu Chang city; it roots in the living environment of Xu Chang citizens;it created by itspeople, showing the development of Xu Chang city’s civilization, reflecting residential’s living status,represting the connotation of Xu Chang city by various cultural heritages’ forms in terms of both materialand non-material cultural together with the whole historical and cultural feature of Xu Chang city. From theorganizational structure, thereby Xu Chang city’s culture heritages could be categorized into: materialized Xu Chang culture space which consists of aspects, such as, structures of culture heritages, city’s spatialstructure, location of Xu Chang’s avenues and streets, and function zoning. As well as the non-materializedurban folk cultural heritage or Xu Chang culture heritages’ spiritial facet, which exists inside the culturalspace, including sorts of non-material aspects, like, folk religion, folk customs, festivals, folklore, folkliterature, traditional commercial and industrial heritage and other items which related with this categore.Therefore, the characteristics of Xu Chang city’s cultural heritags could be reflected as integrity,developing, living and regional features.Gerographical definition of Xu Chang city cultural space, refers to concentric mode, which uses thecity center as the center of a circle, includes towns and villages (Shangji town, Zhangpan town,Dengzhuang village, Shenjian village and Jiangguanchi town, etc.) nearby as radiation belts which arethe surrounding suburbs off the city center. Here, the core area is the main distribution area and aconcentrated expression of district of Xu Chang city cultural heritages, whereas, towns and villages orradiation belts are further supplement and extention of the core area.Xu Chang city embraces a wide range of cultural heritages and rich in cultural connotations. Intremendous number of Xu Chang heritages, urban worship heritages which could be the most importantone and has comparatively high research value, is an important spiritual and cultural life for the people, itpenetrates all aspects of Xu Chang citiizens’s lifes. The author firstly chose ‘worship of King Zhong’ as oneof culture heritage with Xu Chang local characteristics for case study, then deeply explored the ‘worship ofKing Zhong’ form aspects such as, organial background of ‘Xu Chang King Zhong’,‘deified King Zhong’,circulated King Zhong’s myth near Xu Chang city, King Zhong temple and King Zhong temple fair, afterthat, concluded features of ‘worship of King Zhong’ in terms of ‘utilitarianism’,‘mystery’,‘localization’,‘regional distribution’, claimed the positive effects of ‘worship of King Zhong’ for the current developmentof Xu Chang city from the angle of urban culture heritage, and finally gave correspoding suggestions ofpreservation of ‘worship of King Zhong’. |
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