Study On The Distribution And Landscape Status Of Buddhist Architecture In Chaozhou In Ming And Qing Dynasties

Buddhist architecture as a type of foreign architecture poses a major challenge to the construction of ancient Chinese cities under the feudal etiquette and existing building systems.Existing research has created a landscape of temples and towers in ancient Chinese capitalsBeijing,Nanjing,Luoyang,Kaifeng-temples and towers.The discussion on construction and control has formed a series of meaningful results,but there is still a lack of comparative research on the Lingnan local city with weak central control and numerous Buddhist buildings.Based on this,this thesis takes Chaozhou Fucheng in Ming and Qing Dynasties as an example to explore two research issues: 1)the spatial distribution characteristics and landscape status of Buddhist architecture;2)the degree and approach of the integration of Buddhist architecture into the existing ritual city landscape system.The study comprehensively used literature analysis,field survey,spatial element analysis,visual evaluation,nuclear density analysis and other methods,and found that: 1)Buddhist buildings are generally distributed in the core circle formed by high-grade ceremonial buildings such as government offices and cultural and educational buildings in Chaozhou Prefecture The outer periphery of the floor has a strong coupling to the spatial elements such as the inner periphery of the city gate,the residents’ living area,the two sides of the main traffic arteries outside the city,and the scenic spots in the suburbs,but it maintains a certain distance to the bustling commercial area.2)The city-level landscape order is dominated by the official from top to bottom: in terms of axis,borders,landmarks,node landscape participation,and building footprint and shape,the Chaozhou ritual order in the Ming and Qing Dynasties showed obvious control over Buddhist architecture.3)At the community-level landscape level that residents can penetrate in their daily lives,the characteristics of Chaozhou Buddhist buildings small size,high density,and high coupling with residents’ daily life places and paths have made their landscape status in living streets even exceed,some low-level,functional official buildings.4)In Chaozhou Prefecture,compared with the situation that the urban landscape system in Song and Yuan dynasties had relatively loose control over Buddhist architecture,Ming and Qing Dynasties showed a tendency to be more stringent.The volume of existing Buddhist architecture and its main landscape axis The connection strength of the tour interface is weakened,and the location and scale of the newly-built Buddhist buildings are strictly controlled by the government,but the stupa in the Buddhist buildings is gradually absorbed by the ritual system due to its towering vertical visual advantage,and the spatial form can be Translated into some of the key etiquette building configuration elements of Chaozhou,such as the Venta,it became an important component of the landscape system under the “cultural and educational turn” of Chaozhou in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.The main contribution of this study is to explore the distribution characteristics of Buddhist buildings in the Chaozhou Prefecture City in the Ming and Qing Dynasties in the Lingnan area,where the ritual order is relatively weak,the official top-down control of its participation in the urban-scale landscape order,and the folk bottom-up Through the high-density and living node settings,the objectively achieves the construction strategy of the dominance of the landscape of Buddhist buildings on the community scale.