Study On The Characteristics And Inheritance Of Windows And Doors In Lingnan Curtilages

The doors and windows of traditional Lingnan curtilages are wide variety, coupled with the developed manual process and regional cultural identity of Lingnan region, which to make it more obvious regional. After the accumulation of experience, curtilages doors and windows are going to become an independent construction Art, and gradually reach maturity, stability in Modern. With the economic development and the social evolution, traditional curtilages doors and windows are taken seriously because it’s valuable architectural cultural heritage, but also as an aspect of cultural consumption which are to be heritage and development in different ways, place in front of us is that what should be the heritage and how to heritage. In this paper, I try to elaborate Lingnan geographical conditions, cultural characteristics, and the gardening history as the background, starting with appearance of a traditional curtilage doors and windows, functional characteristics. The analysis are under the influence of a specific area of social factors and economic conditions, profiling the process,construction and material application of traditional Lingnan curtilages doors and windows, then analyzing the features advantages and disadvantages of all its style, in the end summarizing several major features of the traditional Lingnan curtilages doors and windows. Based on these characteristics, combined with modern curtilage doors and windows application examples, doing any heritage explore of traditional Lingnan curtilages doors and windows.This paper is divided into two parts which are the character and heritage.Features section, including chapter two to chapter four. Chapter two for an overview of the doors and windows of traditional Lingnan curtilages, mainly base on the background, the overall appearance of the features and the functions of the departure, describing the general characteristics of the traditional curtilages doors and windows on a macro point of view. Then the chapter three and chapter four are discussing the process of construction, materials and style characteristics of the traditional Lingnan curtilages doors and windows:Chapter three discussed the entire fabrication process which Included wood process, glass technology and its hardware components. Besides,there is a detail research about the tools, materials, the basic structure of the doors and windows, component part of the production as well as the entire process. The fourth chapter to summarize and sort out the various styles of curtilage doors and windows,as well as their respective features, there is an in-depth analysis to features, functions, commonly used set up and the pros and cons of the doors and windows.The chapter five is the heritage part which divided into two section. Mainly discusses the Lingnan traditional curtilage doors and windows in today’s application through process of heritage and modern style application:In the first process, analyzing the tools materials and craftsmen of the carvings and etching glass craft tools. Then in the part two with examples, including North Garden Restaurant, the artificial lake, the new Qinghuiyuan and Garden Museum, point out that the problems of traditional curtilages doors and windows in today’s heritage, and in the final make a Investigate to the heritage of traditional Lingnan curtilages doors and windows.This study is established in numerous in-depth field research, observe, mapping, and the interviews of craftsmen at the construction site, as well as under the system analyzed of the relevant literature. I hope that by studying,a more accurate understanding of the features of the traditional Lingnan curtilages doors and windows will be built, as well as practical suggestions for its future heritage.