Public Space Under The Perspective Of Research Of Great Wild Goose Pagoda

Located in the southern Xi’an Cien Temple, the Dayan Pagoda has become one of the most striking symbols of ancient city of Xi’an for its long history. Its towering height and grand momentum of achievement also make a special landscape in the city of Xi’an. In the complex historical process, it takes the transition from a religious, political and cultural space to a civil space. Every transform is determined by special historical period and cultural backgro.unds. After such a long process of evolution, the Dayan Pagoda now shows the appearance we see today, exudes the spirit of vicissitudes.Through the discussion of Habermas’s "Public sphere", the article sorts out the systematic understanding of public space. Because public space, especially public space with characteristics of historical dimension, its level is too broad, it has strong relation with history, geography, politics, economy, education, folklore and even religion. Based on the Habermas’s "Public sphere" theory, rests a standpoint of public space observation. Accordingly, we found that the rise of the Dayan Pagoda as civil space originates from the dilution of religious property and imperial power after restoration. In the transformation process of religious space to civil space, Dayan Pagoda’s open and restrained physical space property is the material basis of civil space. After that, the intervention of imperial power laid down rules for the formal formation of civil space. Scholar-bureaucrat who’s in charge of social say expressed recognition and pursuit towards imperial power. It’s fairly to say that not long after the formation of Dayan Pagoda civil space, it suffered the invasion of "political hegemony" and "cultural hegemony", without exception. Then this ideology of feudal society become practice and consolidated in civil society. The "Yan Ta Ti Ming" and "Deng Ta Fu Shi’" also become a popular cult of imperial power. Big Wild Goose Pagoda was given mainstream ideology and turned into a typical model of civil space in feudal society till the destruction of the feudal society. The text analysis of Dayan Pagoda’s photo, line color, and structural proportion completes the discussion of power expression.Experiencing thousand years of historical changes, the Dayan Pagoda nowadays represents itself as a historical cultural landscape, showing a richer cultural values. Starting from relation of culture and architecture in public space, judge and analyze from the physical process of spirit---people---architecture:the preservation of Dayan Pagoda can’t stop builder’s fading spirit, and demonstrated the origin culture in the strong invasion of commercial factors.Place the Dayan Pagoda in the plaza, from the view of civil life, although its spirit echoes in the whole plaza, it becomes more and more distant from mundane people.