A Study On The Functions Of Political Symbol Of The Memorial Architecture

Memorial architecture is a kind of building with great significance to the community of specific groups,including those historical buildings that bearing memories and places of interest or a building that confirms an era,a nation and a country.Memorial architecture itself has certain cultural and emotional factors,which can be used as a symbol to carry the historical memory shared by us,so that we are more connected.At the same time,memorial architecture is a kind of political symbol that bearing a specific connotation of political culture connotation.It can spread political culture and carry out political socialization by virtue of its lasting physical characteristics or play a role of integrating group consciousness,improving cohesion and enhancing identity.This paper takes the discussion of memorial architecture as a kind of political symbol and explores the political symbolic function of memorial architecture as the theme.It has certain innovation in the research perspective and can also provide a thinking path for the bearing,dissemination and construction of political culture.Political symbols include symbolic meaning and symbolic carrier,which based on symbol theory and political culture theory and play specific functions at the individual level,group level and national level.Memorial architecture contains two elements of political symbol,which can carry and express abstract political culture in the concrete form of architecture.Therefore,memorial architecture could be regarded as a political symbol and can also play the inherent function of political symbol.With its unique "architectural language",memorial architecture is undergoing political socialization.Meaningful naming,peculiar appearance and volume,symbolic layout,and other ritual or vocal strategies,those constitute a set of political symbolic system,which affecting our psychological experience in cognition,emotion,evaluation,attitude and judgment.Specifically,as one kind symbol of a community,memorial architecture carries the memory or culture that everyone has and becomes a "cultural gene" that connects us closely.At the individual level,memorial architecture,as a symbol,can mold and consolidate the identity consciousness of individuals as members of the community,which makes individuals have a special identity brand and leads individuals havea strong sense of belonging to the community;At the group level,memorial architecture represent what we have together and emphasizing a group consciousness that "who are we",which has the function of integrating social groups;At the national level,memorial architecture records the sad or happy moments of the our nation,which can materialize the abstract national community,so we could feel the existence of our nation deeply,meanwhile deepen our cognition of our nation,gather the sense of identity,pride and belonging to our nation.