The Research Of Folk Ancestral Hall Decoration In Middle Reaches Of Yellow River

Ancestral hall, was built to commemorate the ancestors of a clan. It is the place where not only displays the ancestral memorial tablet, holds ancestor worship ceremony but also executes the domestic discipline. It therefore plays an important role in Chinese traditional folk architecture.Middle reaches of the Yellow River from the estuary of Inner Mongolia to Meng Lv of Henan province, where flows through Shanxi, Shaanxi, and Henan province, is the birthplace of Yangshao culture and Chinese civilization, also the ancient center of politics, economy and culture.The topic targets at folk ancestral hall, which is according to geographic background in middle reaches of the Yellow River, through a combination of field research, literature, to study the folk ancestral hall’s decoration art of the region.Through dozes of practical research about ancestral hall in middle reaches of the Yellow River area of Shanxi, Shaanxi, Henan as specific cases, the topic by ways of building features, decorative arts and furnishings analyses, summarizes and refines the artistic characteristics and cultural connotations of the ancestral hall architectural in this area. It also has the contrast to the south area and then finds out the similarities and differences of the decorative art of ancestral hall building, and explores the reasons for similarities and differences. Therefore, it extends how to apply the traditional decorative art in modern.The paper from the ancestral culture of the macroscopic description to ancestral architecture specific features, expanded the depth and breadth of ancestral halldecoration in this region, hoping to promote the protection of historic buildings, and offering reference to protection, repair, reconstruction work of these building.