中国民居
2010-1
五洲传播出版社
单德启 等著，王德华 等译
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China has a vast territory and an extremely long history with the natural andcultural environment differing from region to region. Therefore thediversification of Chinese vernacular dwelling is rarely seen in the architecturalhistory of the world. This book has chosen some settlements which arerepresentative and widely spread to introduce basing on the interaction of theliving customs, action characteristics and the space mode of people who inhabitthe traditional vernacular dwellings.Chinese vernacular dwelling is various and colorful. Both the profound andsteady northern vernacular dwellings and the elegant and pretty southernvernacular dwellings contain the philosophy that "human beings should be inharmony with nature" and the ethic views such as superiority and inferiority insocial life, the order of elders and the young, the different treatment towardsmen and women, the differentiation between people in and out of a clan. Thisbook has described the origin, architectural characteristics and the passing-down value of the Chinese traditional vernacular dwellings in a popular waybut with the professional accuracy. This book is dotted with related historicallegends and folklores. Thus, a vivid scroll of Chinese vernacular dwelling wasclearly drawn.
Shan Deqi, born in 1937 in Anhui Province,graduated from the Civil Engineering and Archi-tecture Department of Tsinghua University in1960 and majored in architecture. He was for-merly Director of "the Teaching and ResearchSection for Architectural Design" of the Architec-ture Department of Tsinghua University, and theVice-President of the School of Architecture,Tsinghua University. At present, he is the Pro-fessor at the School of Architecture of TsinghuaUniversity as well as tutor of doctoral graduatestudents, Member of the Academic Committee,and Vice Director of the Academic Degree Com-mittee.Shan Deqi has published monographs includingIllustrations of Chinese Traditional VernacularDwelling, etc.
IntroductionBeijing Quadrangle CourtyardsHuizhou DwellingsShaoxing Reverside DwellingsMinxi Clay BuildingsArchitectural Novelty in the HomelandGanlan Wood House and Storm-Tossed BridgeAncient Lijiang StreetsTibetan WatchtwoersAppendix:Chronological Table of the Chinese Dynasties
When the people walk in traditional settlements of dwellings, theysee white walls, black tiles, dark gray stone-bridges, dark brownpartition-boards and "the culture of three black things" proper inShaoxing （boats with black awning on the rivers, black hats on thepeoples head, and black dried vegetables sending forth aroma inmany houses） and feel a silent and elegant flavor of the south ofthe lower reaches of the Yangtze River. "The culture of three blackthings" and black, white and gray colors exerted a subtle influenceon local aesthetic conception, which gradually turned implicative,wide, thick and profound; the residents heart seems purified much,far from flippancy, not seeking fame and wealth but keeping theirideals. In full-bodied ambient of a land of rivers and lakes, fellowtownsmen row boats drinking yellow wines, looking so low-pressured. It seems that any bagatelle in life has been cast to thewinds.
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