Study Of The Architectural Culture Of The Canton Traditional Teahouses

Guangzhou,as a national historical and cultural city, is one of the cradle of the Lingnan culture, under the influence of western modern culture and ideology, Guangzhou has a increasing development in commercial activities and foreign trade. It comes out a type of representative and functional building after the mid Qing Dynasty in Guangzhou- Canton teahouses. In order to meet the popular needs, Canton teahouses have strong civil and commercial characters, after nearly a century of precipitation and accumulation, the formation of a representative industry has become a beautiful unique landscape of Guangzhou. Canton restaurants inherit the tradition of Lingnan architectural culture continually, and absorb the modern Western architectural culture and thought at the same time, on the basis of the fusion of ancient and modern, Chinese and Western, through the Lingnan architect predecessors innovative design and practice, making Canton restaurants full meaning to be excavated and studied constantly.The writer selected some of the most significant representatives of the restaurant as the research object in this paper, as the basis of the Guangzhou history and architectural culture, through the use of multi-disciplinary knowledge of historical geography, cultural sociology, psychology and aesthetics, we do a comprehensive analysis and induction to the historical origins of the Guangzhou restaurant, architectural form, environmental characteristics, cultural characteristics, the spirit of place and so on. In order to find the essencial culture and traditional spirit of the canton restaurant buildings, and apply it to the future canton restaurants design and practice, give a little inspiration to the future development of the canton restaurant.The first part, combined with historical and cultural character of Guangzhou, to establish a valuable research and significant meaning to the canton traditional restaurant architectural and cultural connotation. It makes a delineated to the object scope of the study, and studies both in the interdisciplinary field and the field of architecture were all relevant informations on the restaurants, do literatures review, analyzes in combination with field research to obtain data integration, to build a major theoretical framework of this thesis.The second part analyzes the historical development of canton traditional teahouses, teahouse historical development of the origin, do a more detailed elaboration to the development factors and types located in Guangzhou.The third part, do a analysis to the canton traditional teahouses and elegant buildings from site selection, plane and spatial characteristics of the restaurant, the facade and decorative features, internal environmental features, furniture and soft loading feature five aspects, to sum up the traditional teahouse architectural features in Guangzhou.The fourth part, the architectural and cultural characteristics of Guangzhou traditional teahouse summarized in the following four aspects: Secular and popularity, Mercantilism and pragmatic, compatibility and openness, pioneering innovation, and do a deep analysis.The fifth part, under the impact of global commercialization in today’s society, canton traditional teahouses reflect the problems and crises. We do a relevant research data analysis to the consumer groups to the restaurant, to make more clear about consumer demand and have a better position of the restaurant. Through the comparison of canton traditional teahouses with Western restaurant chains, we find their own shortcomings in the management and strategy, combining with the strengthening of architectural features, cultural and social values, improve internal strength, enhance external competitiveness and establish their own brand image, seize the opportunities and challenges to face the internet times, canton traditional teahouse brand culture will be accepted to the world.