On The Cultural Features Of External Religious Architectures Along The Canal In Northwest Shandong

The northwest Shandong belongs to remote areas.The activities and behavior forms of the people in this area are deeply affected by confucian culture,much more deep-rooted compared to large and coastal cities.People's mind fully reflect the closed and backward side of self-sufficent farming culture in the feudal society.But the development of Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal have made a very convenient traffic condition.The cities along the canal were very prosperous in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.A large number of businessmen and transmigrants came here to do business or to settle.It contributed greatly to the communication of local culture and foreign culture.The open and inclusive side was also demonstrated.The morphological features of external religious architectures fully incarnate the process of collision,conflict,exchange and integration between foreign and local culture.The alien religion in northwest Shandong is Christianity and Islam.There are sameness and difference.As a foreign culture,both inevitably conflict with local culture,ultimately toward balance through ongoing exchanges and integration.The different times of dissemination made varies in the process.Christianity was disseminated with aggressive war into China,belonged to superior culture;and Islam in YuanMingQing Dynasties,belonged to disadvantaged culture.Therefore,the corresponding morphological features are different.This paper studies the historical and cultural background of alien religion into northwest Shandong,analyzes and summarizes the features of Christian and Islamic architectures under the influnce of foreign and local culture.I always adhere to the principle of seeking truth from facts.Based on literatural mine,field research and interview with figures,it build a firmly platform through a large number of first-hand information.The purpose of this paper is to research the influnce on architecture of communication between foreign and local culture,hoping to provide a used value for refernce to the road of modern architecture with geographical characteristics.