Foshan Ancestral Temple: Space Conversion From Temple To Museum

With the continuous advancement of the modernization process,today's society and culture are showing diversity,and people's ideology and concepts have also changed.In the traditional sense,the place of worship of folk religions,the temple,has developed into a variety of spatial meanings.From Foshan Ancestral Temple to Foshan Ancestral Temple Museum,the traditional folk belief space was transformed into a social production activity space.This change did not happen suddenly.All parties in the society participated in this process,but this article focuses more on power owners The result of long-term practice in the ancestral temple.This article starts from the theoretical perspective of spatial production and focuses on the social practice that occurred in Foshan Ancestral Temple after the founding of New China.The author mainly obtains first-hand information through field surveys and in-depth interviews,combs the historical development of Foshan Ancestral Temple through literature research,and uses Lefebvre's theory of spatial production to explain the spatial production process of Foshan Ancestral Temple Museum and its production process.Social Significance.This article focuses on the process of space practice from the ancestral temple to the ancestral temple museum,illustrates the changes in the function and symbolic meaning of the ancestral temple space by focusing on the operation and evolution of the material space,and focuses on the role of power factors in this space conversion process Important role,and modernity in space practice.Through research and analysis,it is found that the concept of space referred to by the term "ancestral temple" has already changed in different historical periods,and the social function assumed by the spatial meaning it represents has also changed.The ancestral temple in the pre-modern period was the political,economic,cultural,and faith center of Foshan.Today,the ancestral temple museum bears more cultural and economic functions.The direct political rule function is weakened,the indirect political propaganda function is strengthened,and the space is used.Realize seculartransformation.And the practice subject in the ancestral temple space is changed from Foshan people's leadership to the superior department's.However,the ancestral temple has been the spiritual and cultural center of Foshan since it was built in the Northern Song Dynasty.It occupies an important position in Foshan people's hearts and is the root of Foshan people's hearts.This supreme sacred position has not changed so far.Finally,this article puts forward some suggestions for the considerations for the conversion of sacred space to secular space,that is,to pay attention to the balance of protection and development,to meet the laws of social development,and to coordinate the role of temples and museums.