What are the advantages of antique Ming and Qing architecture?

1. Traditional culture can be expressed in visual form. Karen believes that vision will "awaken our memory experience and those emotional fluctuations that are difficult to calm down once aroused." This involves the form of architecture. A simple way is to imitate traditional architecture concretely, which requires us to study the scale and proportion of traditional architecture honestly, and avoid shoddy construction and copying mechanically, because traditional architecture is made by manpower, and its exquisiteness and accuracy are determined by the accumulated experience of craftsmen. For modern people who lack knowledge and skills, its difficulty and complexity should not be underestimated. If we don't study traditional skills seriously and deeply understand the artistic conception of ancient buildings, design will become a rootless source. On the contrary, even "fake antiques" are popular with the audience. For example, the Confucius Temple in Nanjing is a successful example. Another way is "antique new", which is both antique and modern. How to combine the two? Simply add traditional symbols to modern forms? The problem is that when the traditional form is grafted, it has been divorced from the structure and function, and it is difficult to integrate the two, so the final feeling is still "false". Therefore, what we should strive to do is to let those elements that can express traditional images naturally grow out of the building itself, to reunite form with structure and function, and to combine with modern materials and production methods.

2. "It is impossible to create a new way from form to form", and the visual expression is still superficial. If we want to pursue deeper expression, the space of traditional architecture bears the brunt. In the book Architectural Experience, Lu described that people "establish the connection between people and places in the spatial experience, get inspiration from the experience, and establish their own sense of place, a soaring imagination and memory, a sublimation of meaning and an aesthetic satisfaction in the psychological description". Therefore, the spatial plots in traditional buildings, such as verandahs, courtyards, facing walls and flyovers, provide consumers with a series of feelings, order and sense of place, and create a real experience through the complete feelings of sight, hearing, taste, smell and touch, and improve their understanding of traditional culture in the experience. Of course, "we should pay attention to the local cultural experience and re-examine the traditional culture with new technologies and methods of the times." Space design is no longer a representation, but an artistic conception. "

3. If space is the skeleton, then the life plot and landscape it carries is the body. They enrich the whole space. Shopkeepers' shouting, picky customers in antique shops and interesting folk art performances are "concrete manifestations of the memory of a city, a market town, a space and a scene." Landscape is also explaining the meaning of culture to people. Red lanterns, bedclothes and wedding sedan chairs are symbols of places that evoke memories of the past. There are also fairy tales or legends in regional cultural memory to daily customs, which stimulate people's senses from different angles and levels.

The existence of antique commercial buildings is reasonable, and they have great influence on the whole city and society, so they need to be treated strictly. In addition to promoting economic development, we should also pay attention to the inheritance and expression of traditional culture. The form cannot be discarded, but it cannot be confined to the quagmire of "shape". We should dig deeper expression from the aspects of space, place and landscape.