| Title |
A Pivotal Line and Its Meaning in the Planning of Ancient Chinese Capitals - From Shang-Zhou Period to Han Changan-cheng, via 『Zhouli?Kaogongji』 |
| Keywords |
중축선 ; 유교적 질서 ; '禮'의 재현 ; 周禮·考工記 "匠人營國" ; 중국 고대 도성계획 Pivotal Line ; Confucian Order ; Representation of Propriety ; Zhouli·Kaogongji Jiangren Yingguo ; City Planning in China's Ancient Capitals |
| Abstract |
Both situating and arranging political and ceremonial monuments in the planning of ancient Chinese capitals had been dependent on a pivotal line, whose shape was intimately related to topographical features. The north-south pivotal line that controls a walled capital city is a powerful royal symbol. Mighty rulers had lived in the walled cities, and controlled their cities and dynasties. The planning of all Chinese cities had shared common characteristics concerning the ideas of the pivotal line. Thus, this thesis investigates the uses of central axial lines among examples of capital cities from Shang-Zhou period to Han dynasty, depending on both current archaeological field surveys and historical literature, and then it explores practical uses for a pivotal line's structure and its meaning, in comparison with a strong regulation of an idealistic pivotal line suggested form 『Zhouli?Kaogongji』 "Jiangren-yingguo," namely 『Zhou Rituals? Record of Trades』 "How a Craftsman Creates A Town." It also finds out when urban planners used the code of the pivotal line's structure mentioned from "Jiangren-yingguo" in constructing walled cities. Consequently, in the city planning of ancient capitals, this paper shows that the arrangement of political and ceremonial buildings, drawing on the pivotal line and symmetrical structure, had been much more strongly identified when the pivotal line was recognized as a medium of ruling society, a symbol of propriety, and a representation of Confucian order. |