The Succession And Development Of Traditional Archway Culture

The broad and profound Chinese traditional buildings have long history. On the long journey, they have produced plenty of architectural works which have specific characters, and archway is the one of them. As the important part of Chinese traditional buildings and the filed of plastic arts, archway performs far-reaching meaning of art, culture and society.Archway is a epitome of the Chinese national culture, material carrier of folk arts and decorative pattern, and also is a kind of building which has the highest quality, the most complex decorative manipulation, and the perfect exquisite. It has too much aesthetic values and artistic values. The various modelings, the colorful coloured drawings, the practical and delight functions reflect Chinese traditional buildings'consummate and far-reaching national culture.At first, archway is single building as architecture's accessory and decoration, after hundreds and thousands years of historical evolvement process, archway's pattern developed into a memorial symbolism. After finished the practical functions, memorial archway had been given commemorating function, which was a kind of materialization reflection of civilians' life ideals, reflecting propitious concept of civilians' praying for safety to family, praying for fortune and happiness to life, and praying for longevity to life. Archway not only is an decorative patterns' important vector, but also a kind of expression of feudal 'ritual system.' In the powerful code of 'ritual system', archway was given imprinting of 'ritual'. Under the restriction of 'ritual', archway's decorativeness was given imprinting of ritual system culture. In the sense of profound meaning archway was the outcome of Chinese ancient feudal ritual system and feudal traditional moral concept, and also was the manifestations of the material form of feudal ritual system and feudal traditional moral concept.Archway culture is not only decorative and beautiful pantern but also the performance of people's deep psychological structure; it's not missing and inheritance to traditional culture in simple, but it's understanding and carrying forward to true essence of excellent culture. After the hundreds historical evolvement process, Chinese archway culture formed its own unique modeling languages, its implied meaning and relative traditional customs still have been widely propagated until now, the development of archway culture was related to Chinese ancient social cultural background. Form historical culture to architectural form, form engraving ornamentation to material application, form individual image to group layout, and so on, all of them exhibited the reply of ancient culture meaning, traditional etiquette, ethical morality and ideal pursuit.The first four chapters in this text describes as unique architectural spaces element, archway's characteristics and functions in Chinese ancient architectural group, urban and goxno spaces, and landscape garden, reveals archway's important role and cultural communication significance in the parts of ancient Chinese social material demand and spiritual education. With Baoji Daijiawan municipal square archway design as the main research role, the last chapter researches systematically and completely on archway's influence and inheritance in China. Drawing lessons from making technological method of traditional memorial archway, guiding us how to use modern process technology and advanced equipments, explaining archway which was an old single architecture.