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Hagia Sophia
This sentence is a famous saying of Nikolai Gogol. It means that architecture carries contemporary cultural memories, which can be passed down more permanently than poems and legends. Architecture is the yearbook of the world. When everything stops talking about the dead, only the building is still talking.
Liang Sicheng, the son of Liang Qichao, devoted his life to the research and protection of ancient buildings in China. He is an architectural historian, educator and architect, and is known as the father of modern architecture in China.
Liang Sicheng and Lin
In the early 1930s, Liang Sicheng and Lin, who worked in the Architectural Society, were determined to rescue the ancient buildings in China. They plan to find out the ancient buildings scattered all over the country, especially those unknown and valuable for protection, and record them with pictures and texts.
More than 2,700 ancient buildings from the Tang Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty were surveyed and photographed, including Zhao Zhouqiao, Wutai Mountain and Beidou Temple. Through their investigation and publication, they have been recognized by the world, thus being re-protected, and have preserved the first-hand precious materials for future generations to study the ancient buildings in China.
The Zhaozhou Bridge
Architecture is not only the material home of human beings, but also the spiritual home of human beings, which can make people "live poetically". From the majestic Great Wall in Wan Li, China to the silent Egyptian pyramids, from the elegant Parthenon in Greece to the magnificent Arc de Triomphe in Rome, there is no exception.
Perhaps many people don't understand, what practical significance can outdated things have for contemporary people? Come to think of it, in addition to important traditional cultural factors, perhaps we should feel the spiritual world.
Animals live just to "eat", and animals "eat" just to live. In addition to "eating" to live, human beings should also look for the meaning and interest of being alive spiritually. Just like some people like playing games, some people like traveling to see mountains and rivers, and some people like dancing, even if they are shopping in buy buy, they are all meeting their inner needs.
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And all kinds of cultures and civilizations are the products of the most precious spiritual world of mankind. Architecture is a huge and three-dimensional space-time cultural form in which the material, system and spiritual civilization created by human beings are displayed on the broad horizon. Architectural culture is an important part of human culture.
If you want to talk about more specific practical significance, think about Lin. Why did you finally choose Liang Sicheng instead of Xu Zhimo (covering your mouth and laughing)?