Research On Modern Architecture Of The Hui Ethnic Group In Gansu

Famous scholar Professor Jixianlin said in the culture, has the famous paper, he said:"inthe world of long duration,without interruption, true to form independent system culture onlyfour--China culture, India culture, Arabia Islamic culture system and Western culturesystem". While Islamic culture from islam. Islam, by Mohamed (Muhammad A.D.530-632years) in610ad in Arabia peninsula city of Mecca was founded, and then struggle inpolytheism began to develop and grow, and quickly spread throughout the world, and becomeone of the three major religions in the world. So far, it has undergone one thousand400yearsof history, although it is Buddhism and Christianity and teach all night. Islam occupies animportant position in the history of the world civilization, because it creates the Islamicculture, including the Islamic architectural culture.China as one of the four ancient civilizations in the world, which is the unity of theChinese civilization as the main body, taking Chinese culture as the basis, by the Hannationality as the main ethnic composition of the multi-ethnic country, there are a total offifty-six people, of which the Hui ethnic group, Uygur, Kazak, Dongxiang and other tenethnic groups believe in Islam, but Hui the largest number, the most widely distributed. Theformation of the Hui nationality compared to other people is very special, it formed in lateand forming process is more complex, it is not by the local indigenous development, but bythe foreign national and China ethnic composition into the main culture, Islamic culture.Religion has a profound impact on the whole production Islam the lives of the masses, butalso affects the development of architecture, with the spreading of Islam in China, westernbuilding techniques are also introduced to China, makes Chinese of traditional woodenarchitecture and masonry and Islamic architecture learn from each other, resulting in theconstruction of a new culture, Islamic architecture culture which has the characteristics oftraditional Chinese.Gansu is located in the middle reaches of the Yellow River, is the birthplace of Chineseculture, the ancient "Silk Road" runs through the whole territory of Gansu, the Islamic cultureis the earliest to enter an important node Chinese, one of the main distribution area is Chinahui. The present composition of44ethnic minorities, ethnic minorities in Gansu has16,among them Dongxiang, Yugu, Baoan Gansu unique national. Hui minority in Gansu isamong the largest number of, live mainly in Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture andZhangjiachuan Hui Autonomous County, Lanzhou, Pingliang, Dingxi and in the diaspora,silver city; The minority is mostly used the Altai language family,each national minority.Altai family in Gansu are distributed in Altai, Gansu has also become a branch of theAustronesian languages an important base for teaching and research in our country, is the intersection of many cultures in Chinese culture, especially the Buddhist culture, Confucianculture, Taoist Culture and Islamic culture of the fusion zone. Source of Hui in Gansu sincethe Tang Dynasty, after the Tang, song, yuan, Ming Dynasty, the Hui in Gansu distributionthroughout the province, but the change in distribution pattern began in the Qing DynastyTongzhi reign (1862), because in the first year of Tongzhi, Hui uprising in Shaanxi and Gansuand other places of theoutbreak, but eventually suppressed by the Qing government ended,since then, the Qing government for the Northwest Hui implementation of the hair removalsystems and measures, the Northwest Hui distribution throughout the world has changed, andthe buildings of Gansu are almost all modern building, Qing Dynasty and before buildingsurvived less, coupled with the "Cultural Revolution Chinese" they destroyed the one most,the surviving Islamic architecture is the modern.Therefore, Gansu Hui architecture is a part of China Islamic architecture, it has a richconnotation and unique artistic style, due to Gansu’s geographic location is unique, Xinjiangstyle and Chinese mainland style in architectural style,with wood structure Chinese traditionalarchitecture, Arabia also has a style of Xinjiang style, also has a combination of Xinjiang withthe mainland in two styles in an architectural form. Today, the city has become an inevitabletrend of social development,with the development of the city, the people’s living standardsimprove, but also makes the city square original system of Northwest Hui area and livingaround the temple tradition was broken, religious and social balance of the original has beenbroken, in line with the original Hui people’s psychological Islamic architecturethe aestheticbecoming lack of characteristics, the so-called "neighborhood characteristics of" alternative,Hui community to maintain national emotional belief began to disappear, the foreign cultureworship worship should cause our enough attention. Therefore, a comprehensive study of theGansu Hui building, fully display its rich cultural connotation and unique artistic style, isconducive to better inherit and carry forward the national spirit, play a positive role in reality.In this paper, taking Gansu modern Hui building as the research object, using the methodof historical literature research combined with the actual investigation and study, many placesof Gansu province’s city and county and related literatures were read, and to Gansu HuiAutonomous Region and the scattered field research, collect empirical photos and mapping alarge amount of data on the territory of Gansu existing Hui building, and careful analysis,based on the theory research, prepare to put into practice. The full text is divided into sixchapters, starting with the Gansu Hui ethnic origin, cultural tradition of the Hui Gansu weresummarized, analyzed its cultural characteristics. Secondly, on the study of the Huinationality in Gansu during the course of the development of architecture in the formation andthe Gansu Hui building, also from the functional division, namely the religious buildings,several large residential buildings and tombs of architecture are discussed, and the religious buildings from its building shapes, layout, decoration art in detail and summary. Finally,through the analysis of the study of Gansu Hui building, the Gansu Hui building’s form andbasic characteristics, and puts forward the innovation in the basis of maintaining thetraditional buildings, and the city modernization, the development trend of Gansu Huiarchitecture are discussed, in order to the real role in the development of China building up.