| The ancient architecture of city of Fenghuang are mostly saved for Ming and Qing Dynasties, for the present mainly in the form of the protection of architectural cultural relics. The architecture of the ancient city and decorative patterns are the most intuitive portrayal of the decorative arts of the ancient city of Fenghuang. The special historical background makes the layout and decorative arts of the show that the characteristics of mutual integration of multi-ethnic culture such as Miao, Tujia, Han, and so on. The ancient architecture is an important intangible cultural heritage of the ancient city Fenghuang, carrying historical information, the arts and sciences, which become the important entities of study national culture, science and technology of Fenghuang in special historical period.The main research object of this thesis is the typical features of the ancient architecture in Fenghuang, taking the distinctive national minority culture of Western Hunan as the background, based on site filming and mapping information, and combined with the research approach of the typical case. From the point of view of the decorative arts, use aesthetic, graphic analytics, pattern knowledge to interpret aesthetic philosophy and art form of the ancient of city of Fenghuang, analyse the composition rule of architectural decorative patterns and aesthetic discipline, exploring the level characteristic of the architectural decorative color and the use of color psychology, summarizing the carving techniques and the topics of architectural decorative patterns which are mainly the animal and plant ornamentation having such implied meanings as luck, the religious decoration meaning trending guitar to ward off evil, the realistic ornamentation of the dramatic theme.The ancient architecture-of the city of Fenghuang reflects the people praise to goodness, honesty, brave humanity, which demonstrate the human-oriented idea is the important purport of the decorative arts value. By studying ancient architectural decorative arts. Explore the similarities and characteristics of the multi-ethnic cultural integration of architecture and the decorative arts, and interaction of decorative ornamentation between Miao and Han ethnic, which has an important theoretical research significance for understanding correctly the content, form, nature and direction of decorative culture during changing process. |