A Study On Aesthetic Culture Differences Of Hunan Traditional Houses

After more than30years of reforming and opening up, China has more solid national strength and plays an important role in the world, as a rising country in the East shocking the world, a worldwide modern civilization rising in the world. It’s no exaggeration to say that this is the revitalization of three decades, but it is also something lost in three decades. The historical links of the traditional houses were ruthlessly cut off in the thirty years of the development process, especially in the process of development of small towns in China. To face up to this impetuous current social situation, a lot of people with lofty ideals, including decision-makers are beginning to rational thinking. Traditional and modern collision sparks ignited the people to reposition and re-examined their own ethnic culture. Starting from the Hunan traditional houses, this paper is trying to compare the cultural differences and architectural differences of west-Hunan, north-Hunan, and south-Hunan residential development process, which divided were based on location geography, historical origin and cultural customs, and to explore their intrinsic aesthetic value, so that together to discuss the significance of tradition and modern, inheritance and development, looking forward to influence people’s behavior in the process of modernization, especially in the development of construction of small towns.The main part of the paper is the comparison of the western, northern and southern of Hunan’s architectural culture and architectural style, summed up the differences among the three on the architectural culture and architectural style, and explored its inherent aesthetic value. On comparing the differences in culture meaning and architectural style, this paper followed the same basic idea of "seek common ground while reserving differences". The so-called "common ground" is the philosophy ideal of "centre","middlebrow" or "theory that man is an integral part of nature" in Chinese architectural culture, architectural style for thousands of years, which is the same on the historical heritage and cultural heritage. The connotation of this building culture is bound to throughout the Chinese architectural style, and in case lost those would lost meaning as "rootless buildings" to some extent. As to the so-called "differences", it is the differences of culture differences influenced by the location geography, local customs and practices, based on the integration of the Great Unity.Xiangbei, the north Hunan, is near to Wu Yue and bond of the Central Plains. The architectural style is affected by the influence of the Central Plains culture as well as the Chu culture, and at the same time, also received the Ming and Qing Dynasties large-scale migration of ethnic heterogeneity and cultural infiltration, having a rich cultural heritage. By these cultural influences,"Big House" becomes a distinguishing style in Xiangbei house that embody rhythmical image and rhythm sensation in appreciation.Xiangnan, the south Hunan, is located at the junction of Hubei and Hunan, which deeply influenced by the cultural impact of the Great Migration.So far, the Xiangnan houses have a lot of similarities with the Lingnan houses in the village location, planning and architectural style, which express in the weight groups, ranging from small, to the horizontal plane development, and the monomer is not prominent, very few unconventional, and harmony is the tone of the entire building.Xiangxi, the west of Hunan, has rolling hills, ravines and complex terrain. Local culture has been the mainstream of the region, and at the same time, it influenced by the Ba-Shu culture, especially in the Ming and Qing Dynasties deeply influenced by Chinese culture, thus giving birth to the famous Xiangxi Diaojiaolou. In the architectural style, the spatial form of "virtual","solid","potential","concave" and "convex" acting freely with a great deal of flexibility. Therefore, caused by building cultural differences, the difference the architectural style can be summarized in a nutshell for:Xiangxi embodies the rustic romantic beauty, Xiangnan reflects the quality of intension and elegant, and Xiangbei embodied the outside humble beauty of diamond.The breakthrough of this thesis is to state the historical trajectory and the irreplaceable role of the architectural culture, by comparing the differences of architectural culture and architectural style in the three regions and from the people basic judgment and orientation to aesthetic needs and aesthetic values, based the academic context rationalize development of Hunan traditional house. And this thesis also clear up the protection thought of Hunan traditional house of effectively passing on and development of the traditional architectural culture in the modern society, so that to advance and enrich the "root" of the China Architectural Culture.