The Space Form Development Of The CityGod Temples And Their Perimeter

There are city god temples in nearly every Chinese ancient city as public building with both sacred property and secular property. The city god temples are important in both city layout and civil life. But because of Chinese recent war and the movement of breaking away form The Four Old when Chinese New Republic City was found, many city god temples were badly destroyed. With the development of cities, more attention is paid to the historical culture and many people are going after to the better life. At the same time, more and more cities begin to pay attention to the city god temples and their perimeter. It has been a common problem to many cities that protecting the city god temples and their perimeter, and continuing the society function and the need in people's heart.Being as the city protecting god at first, the city god temples have developed to be a place which possess multiple function, such as economics, culture, society etc. It's not enough to just protect the architecture as historical articles. The latent capacity of the city god temples, which possess kinds of function in history and adapt to the modern cities, should be explored out, in order to bring bank the activity of the god temples, and make them to be the indispensable public building and the place for citizen's life.The thesis research deeply on how the city god temples came out and why they continue to today, form the birth of god city temple—sacred property and other factors, such as society, culture, region, religion, politics and etc—assembling property. Then summarize and exercise them to the folk custom garden design of the capital city god temple in Xi'an, which is one of the three capital city god temples, in order to exert the worth of history, religion, folk custom, commerce and tourism, and recover it's historical position and character in the ancient city of Xi'an. It will succeed in protecting the capital city god temple in Xi'an at last.