A Comparative Study On The City Shape And Architectural Ordonnance Of The Ming Dynasty And The Chosun Dynasty

The Ming Dynasty and the Chosun Dynasty had extensive exchanges in thepolitical and cultural aspects, so many similarities bwtween two countries make usguess the two countries also had a certain degree of exchange in the architecturalculture, technology and institutional aspects. Eespecially they had experienced similarnational-wide city construction movements, and the similarities and regularitiesamong the cities, let us speculate their city construction might had been carried outaccording to a unified regulation of its country itself.This thesis researches the local cities and their sets of ancillary buildings of twodynasties, analyzes their own characteristics and regulaties of local cities, and findsout the influence between the two different systems.The first chapter introduces the research background, scope, method, historicaldata and other related researches.The second chapter is about their cities. This chapter mainly compares plaincities in the Ming Dynasty and mountain cities in the Chousn Dynasty, and analyzesthe theory of city construction, to ascertain the forming process and characteristics oftheir local city systems.The third chapter is about the local government buildings. This chapter mainlyanalyzes the architectural plains of local governments at all levels in the localchronicles and their attached drawings, and finds out the architectural model andpattern through various indirect analysisThe fourth chapter is about the local official guest house. In the Ming Dynasty,they usually were placed in their local government building. On the contrary, thelocal official guest houses of the Chosun Dynasty were independent of localgovernment buildings. This chapter analyzes the local administrative organizations ofthe two dynasties to find the reason.The fifth chapter is about the local offical altars and temples. Different from thegovernment budldings, the local offical altars and temples were related to theetiquette system, theri construction system was very strict and paid much attention totheir architectural form and size. This chapter focuses on how the Chosun Dynasty made its own architectural systems of various offical local altars and temples afterfinding out its own systems were different from the Ming Dynasty’s new officalsystem.The sixth chapter is about the local temple school. The architectural model of thelocal temple schools in the Chosun Dynasty was made based on several templeschools in the ancient China. This chapter analyzes how to combine temple sectionand school section in one architectural complex.The seventh chapter is the conclusion. It summarizes the architectural featureand rugulation of local cities and their ancillary buildings in two countries, andexplain the relationship and influence among them.