中西文化对比视野（Contrastive view of Chinese and Western culture）.doc

中西文化对比视野（Contrastive view of Chinese and Western culture） In contrast with the western building, China ancient building its own unique aesthetic feeling will arise: the main Chinese ancient building is civil structure, focus on the other line of beauty, vivid, western traditional architecture for stone structure, focus on the other block, the application form, China thick; traditional architecture groups in space horizontal expansion, pay attention to the axial symmetry, the pursuit of the depth effect, the layout of the city is rectangular or square, the overall style of introverted, the pursuit of the subtle and privacy, western traditional architecture focus on single building art effect, vertical expansion space, towering tall, open outward to the concentric radial layout of the city, and the pursuit of external enterprising and freedom; China ancient building with paint or coating wood and color in red, yellow, green and blue primary colors Western, traditional architectural color is white, beige, grey stone, but the interior decoration of the pursuit of a bright, lustrous and dazzling, hazy religious atmosphere...... Continue to list compared to many, but only think deeply about the reasons for this difference, we can have a more profound understanding of the building, rather than stay on the surface of superficial contrast. Generally speaking, we can look for reasons from the geographical environment and cultural differences. From the geographical environment, Chinese ancient Central Plains forest is numerous, and for building stone is relatively scarce, and inconvenient transportation, building materials to wood; and the geographical environment is the source of Western Civilization -- with less mountainous trees -- in ancient Greece and Rome, so the traditional stone for the building. Living in the farming environment Chinese, live a regular life, day in and day out year after year, is very sensitive to the change of four, largely dependent, therefore is ea