The Research On Hunan Extant Pagoda With The Pavilion Style In Ming And Qing Dynasties

The pavilion-type pagoda which comes from the traditional Chinese pavilion, integrates the essences of the exotic culture and the traditional Chinese architectural art.In the Chinese pagodas,it is the most common and has the largest scale.Hunan extant pagodas are mainly the pavilion-type pagodas built in Ming and Qing dynasties.As the witness of the historical development, the remains of social change, the crystallization of science and technology, the records of arts and culture, the extant pavilion-style pagodas are valuable historical and cultural heritages of Hunan.However, to date, the value of Hunan pagodas has not been given sufficient attention and the related Hunan ancient towers'research and the protection are still in the preliminary stage.So the research on the extant Hunan Pagoda with the pavilion style and brick stone material built in Ming and Qing dynasties,may not only enrich the study of Hunan ancient architecture, but also may play a certain propaganda role and strengthen the entire society's attention on Hunan ancient pagodas.At the same time we will realize their values and then actively protect these precious historical heritages.The paper mainly launches the scene investigation and study along Hunan four river systems-Xiangjiang River, Zishui,Yuanjiang River, Lishui and their branch.In the meanwhile,I collect and reorganize the research materials of the pavilion -type pagoda.And then based on these dataâ… launch the paper's writing.The paper primarily divides into three parts.The first part for the rationale part mainly carries on the selected topic research and the philosophy theoretical analysis on pavilion-style pagoda. The selected topic research elaborates the selected topic background, the literature review and the research significance, while having limited the research primary coverage and determined the work frame. The philosophy theoretical analysis part analyzes and summarizes the produced reasons, the characteristics and the development changes of pavilion-style pagoda on the base of the massive literature materials.The second part for the research on Hunan pavilion-type pagodas built in Ming and Qing dynasties, mainly includes the background survey analysis, the characteristic and the culture research.The background survey part firstly elaborates Hunan geographical environment, the humanities history and the Buddhism culture's background, and then summarizes the distribution and the type of Hunan pagoda with the pavilion type built in Ming and Qing dynasties.The characteristic and the culture research firstly deeply analyses site features and architectural characteristics of Hunan pavilion-type pagodas.And then it elaborates different cultures and arts which these pagodas reflect.The third part for the pagoda's protection, refers to the basic principle and the advanced method with which the domestic and foreign protect the ancient construction and unifies the present situation of the Hunan extant pavilion-type pagoda,to put forward some proposals to protect Hunan pagoda and seek for the new way for Hunan pagoda's development.