Study On Hu Xue-yan's Residence In The Late Qillg Dynasty

The late Qing Dynasty is a hi storical change era in Ch ina,the change situation has not been for two thousand years.In Ch inese traditional society,businessman as "the end of the four people",they are subj ect to various levels,specifications,system constraints.But in the late Qing Dynasty with the collapse of the world and the traditional justice,hierarchy in traditional society,especially the "scholar,farmer,artisan and m erchant" ——the grade system has been changed.Compared to the businessman in trad itional society,merchants in the late Qing Dynasty had m ore freedom and political nature.Hu Xueyan as the "red-hat merchant" in late Qing Dynasty——political merchant,his legendary fortune,business life is very special in the late Qing Dynasty.The residence which Hu Xueyan built in his p eak period of career,its building structure,building decoration,building structure,building function not only obey the Chinese trad itional etiquette,but also reflect the ch anges of the times.In th e traditional ritual,Hu Xueyan 's residence was deeply influenced by Confucianism——Xin'an rationalism,strictly abide by the Neo-Confuc ianism system which the "Zhu Xi fam ily" to build up,to construct the f unction and layout of residential buildings.Meanwhile,Hu Xueya n's residence's decorative pattern s and construction are deeply affected by the Western cultural.This is a typical microcosm of the times.The research of this paper takes the Hu Xueyan' s residence as a case,take the history of great changes in the late Qing dyna sty as background,take the architectural design art as the end result,an alysis and study of Hu Xueyan's residence in the era of the great changes in the late Qing Dynasty.