Study On The Chastity-Filial Archways Of Shanxian

The broad and profound chinese traditional buildings have long history. On the long joumey, they have produced plenty of architectural works which have specific character. Archway is proper symbol architecutre in China of long stnading. Archway is a epitome of the chinese national culture, material carrier of folk arts and decorative pattem, and alsois a kind of building which has the highest quality, the most complex decorative manipulation, and the perfect exquisite.Shanxian is famous for more archways and exquisite carvings. From the Song and Ming to Qing, the documented archways were more than a hundred seats, so Shanxian is enjoy the"archway county". Unfortunately, the many more archways were destroyed in the"Cultural Revolution". Among them, the Hundred Lions archway and Hundred Shou archway which have the most beautiful carvings and are most magnificent survived fortunately, and still towering and experiencing the spring. Archways have unique architectural style and ingenious structure, integrating fine carving art, delicate painting technique, couplet elegant diction, unique charm of calligraphy and and other artistic means. Each archway has its own unique meaning construction, emboding the idea of social life, traditional moral values and feudal customs of ancient. In addition to giving people the shocking beautiy, the story behind Shanxian archways contain profound ideological content, not only reflecting the culture of Shanxian, but also reflecting Confucianism as the core of traditional culture in Chinese feudal society. Shanxian archways have a wide range of artistic expressions, each archway is valuable kind on ancient folk customs study, having great value of ancient folk beliefs study and also providing unique and valuable material carriers on the political, economic, cultural, architecture, folklore study in the Ming and Qing.This paper is divided into six chapters. The first chapter is introduction, generally analysing the purpose and significance of the research, and the research status and level at home and abroad. The second chapter discusses the origin and development of archway and the classification of the archways, analysing of the architectural art and aesthetics of archways, and describing the cultural spirit of archways. The third chapter describes the historical evolution of Shanxian archway. The four chapter detailly analyses and evaluates the structures, scale and value of archways of Shanxian. The fifth chapter raises archways protection and rehabilitation measures and programs, simultaneously proposing feasibility proposals of cultural, commercial and tourism's develoment and utilizing.