A capital of a dynasty was the epitome of its whole politics,economy and culture of a dynasty .As a result ,the research of ancient capital sites should be an important field of Chinese historic archaeology.Imperial p...A capital of a dynasty was the epitome of its whole politics,economy and culture of a dynasty .As a result ,the research of ancient capital sites should be an important field of Chinese historic archaeology.Imperial palace was the political center of the capital,so the research of palace sites could be taken as an especially important aspect of the study of capitals.As the main arena of the national political life,palaces were always the symbolic buildings of kingship and imperial power.Taking the character of archaeclogy into account, palaces can be chosen as a cut- in pointto study the problems such as the emergence of ancient civilizations and the forming of ancientstates. In historical studies,greatimportance should be attached to the problems such as the shapes of palaces in different times,the evolvement of palace layout,and the relation between the palace and the whole city,etc.The architectural plane of ancientpalace is mainly designed to be oblong, square and roundness ( or polygon) .The former was always chosen as the plane shape of palaces.the imperial mausoleum buildings,and the religious buildings.while the latter two were always applied to ceremonial buildings (礼制建筑 ) .Ceremonial buildings could be distinguitshed from palaces during the later period of Xia dynasty(夏代 ) at the latest.It was during the Shang dynasty (商代 ) that palaces and ceremonial buildings began to be placed in different districts.This custom was followed by most states of the Eastern- zhou period (东周时期 ) Through Qin(秦代 ) and Han dynasty(汉代 ) ,it was practiced as a rule in the architectural layout of capitals.This process shows us that religious authority gradually became an appendage of the kingship and imperial展开更多
文摘A capital of a dynasty was the epitome of its whole politics,economy and culture of a dynasty .As a result ,the research of ancient capital sites should be an important field of Chinese historic archaeology.Imperial palace was the political center of the capital,so the research of palace sites could be taken as an especially important aspect of the study of capitals.As the main arena of the national political life,palaces were always the symbolic buildings of kingship and imperial power.Taking the character of archaeclogy into account, palaces can be chosen as a cut- in pointto study the problems such as the emergence of ancient civilizations and the forming of ancientstates. In historical studies,greatimportance should be attached to the problems such as the shapes of palaces in different times,the evolvement of palace layout,and the relation between the palace and the whole city,etc.The architectural plane of ancientpalace is mainly designed to be oblong, square and roundness ( or polygon) .The former was always chosen as the plane shape of palaces.the imperial mausoleum buildings,and the religious buildings.while the latter two were always applied to ceremonial buildings (礼制建筑 ) .Ceremonial buildings could be distinguitshed from palaces during the later period of Xia dynasty(夏代 ) at the latest.It was during the Shang dynasty (商代 ) that palaces and ceremonial buildings began to be placed in different districts.This custom was followed by most states of the Eastern- zhou period (东周时期 ) Through Qin(秦代 ) and Han dynasty(汉代 ) ,it was practiced as a rule in the architectural layout of capitals.This process shows us that religious authority gradually became an appendage of the kingship and imperial
