Study on Traditional Architectural Features of JIN-Ai under the Influence of Silk Road Commerce

2013 ◽  
Vol 671-674 ◽  
pp. 2328-2331
Author(s):  
Ming Hui Ye ◽  
Han Zhang ◽  
Shuang Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Spatial Scales ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Silk Road ◽  
Traditional Architecture ◽  
Lanzhou City ◽  
Architectural Features ◽  
Market Town ◽  
Space Layout ◽  
The Silk Road

The Silk Road is the green commercial thoroughfare between Europe and Asia, and also a cultural front for confrontations as well as coordination between the western and eastern civilizations. The ancient business towns along the Silk Road are like stars shining in the great universe. Yuzhong County of Lanzhou City is a market town. Since Han, it began to undertake commercial supplies, cargo transit, postal transfer and many other important roles in history. Rich in cultural heritage, Jin-ai has formed its traditional architecture and its culture of distinct regional characteristics. This article is based on field research and concerned with how Jin-ai's traditional buildings, adapting farming, commerce, patriarchal relations, reflect its morphology, external space, layout and spatial scales, as well as its traditional cultural characteristics.

scholarly journals Design and Research of Service Platform for Protection and Dissemination of Cultural Heritage Resources of The Silk Road in the Territory of China

2015 ◽  
Vol II-5/W3 ◽  
pp. 395-399
Author(s):  
L. Zhang ◽  
W. Zhang ◽  
S. J. Zeng ◽  
W. Na ◽  
H. Yang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Silk Road ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Tianshan Mountain ◽  
Cultural Resources ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
The Road ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Silk Road

The Silk Road, a major traffic route across the Eurasia continent, has been a convergence for the exchange, communication and dissemination of various cultures such as nations, materials, religions and arts for more than two thousand years. And the cultural heritage along the long and complicate route has been also attractive. In recent years, the Silk Road – the Road Network along the Chang’an-Tianshan Mountain has been listed in the Directory of World Cultural Heritage. The rare and rich cultural resources along the Silk Road, especially those in the territory of China, have attracted attentions of the world. <br><br> This article describes the research ideas, methods, processes and results of the planning design on the internet-based dissemination services platform system for cultural heritage resources. First of all, it has defined the targeting for dissemination services and the research methods applied for the Silk Road heritage resources, based on scientific and objective spatial measurement and research on history and geography, to carry on the excavation of values of cultural resource for the target users. Then, with the front-end art exhibit by means of innovative IT, time and space maps of cultural heritage resources, interactive graphics display, panoramic three-dimensional virtual tour, and the Silk Road topics as the main features, a comprehensive and multi-angle cultural resources dissemination services platform is built. The research core of the platform is a demand-oriented system design on the basis of cultural resources and features as the fundamental, the value of contemporary manifestation as the foundation, and cultural dissemination and service as a starting point. This platform has achieved, temporal context generalization, interest profiles extension, online and offline adaptation, and other prominent innovations. On the basis of routes heritage resource protection and dissemination services with complex relationship between time and space, and the Silk Road as the representative, practice and research of the platform in the internet context help to provide an application reference and theoretical basis.

scholarly journals OLD RAUMA (FINLAND): LIVING AND RESEARCHING VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE

2020 ◽  
Vol XLIV-M-1-2020 ◽  
pp. 11-18
Author(s):  
M. Caruso ◽  
L. García-Soriano
Keyword(s):  
Vernacular Architecture ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Active Participation ◽  
Timber Structures ◽  
Traditional Architecture ◽  
15Th Century ◽  
Domestic Activities ◽  
Architectural Features

Abstract. Old Rauma is a Finnish medieval town. It was founded in the 15th century and although it went through several modifications, it maintained significative features of medieval Nordic urbanism and vernacular architecture. Buildings mostly consist of logs-timber structures, even if there are also few cases of stone constructions; dwellings are usually simple volumes composed of a stone cellar, a first main floor and an attic, that is used for ventilation and secondary domestic activities. The wood is the most used material and slabs, floors, doors, windows, finishing and decorations are made of it. People still live in traditional dwellings or use them with other functions. Some significant changes were necessary to adapt the buildings to the modern lifestyle: although some of them were quite modifying, the upgrades are often operated by using traditional techniques, materials and by maintaining the most relevant architectural features. Thank to this habit, Old Rauma is one of the largest and most important examples of Nordic traditional architecture. This text will present the results of 2 months of direct field research, by explaining the work methodology, its results and some considerations about them. The analysis has been conducted during a traineeship at Tammela Centre (Rauma) and it has been carried out by visual surveys, bibliographical researches, active participation to seminars and activities, photographical cataloguing and through interviews with local professionals, experts and inhabitants.

scholarly journals Cinema in Post-Taliban Afghanistan

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ron Holloway
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Silk Road ◽  
Strict Interpretation ◽  
Sharia Law ◽  
The Silk Road

CINEMA IN POST-TALIBAN AFGHANISTAN Bamyan BuddhasWhen the giant Buddhas on the Silk Road at Bamyan were destroyed by radical Taliban clerics in March of 2001 in accordance with a strict interpretation of Islamic Sharia law, even the Afghan populace was stunned by the disrespect for their own cultural heritage. For in July of 1999 the leading Sharia cleric, Mullah Mohammed Omar, had issued an order for the preservation of the Bamyan Buddhas on the grounds that the Afghanistan Buddhist population scarcely existed, thus removing the possibility of the statues being worshipped. But when 400 radical Taliban clerics launched a ban on all forms of imagery - including music, sports, and television - they reached a questionable consensus that the statues were an affront to Islam. So Mullah Mohammed Omar changed his mind. "Muslims should be proud of smashing idols," he said. "It has given praise to God that...

scholarly journals The Cultural and Educational Dimension of the “New Silk Road:” The Re-invention of Mongolness at the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-59
Author(s):  
Ute Wallenböck
Keyword(s):  
Soft Power ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Silk Road ◽  
Qinghai Province ◽  
Strategic Value ◽  
Belt And Road ◽  
Infrastructure Project ◽  
The Belt And Road ◽  
The Silk Road ◽  
Shed Light

Abstract In October 2013, Xí Jìnpíng presented not only an ambitious infrastructure project but a strategic initiative that promoted connections in many regards: the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). One intended strategic value of this initiative is the improvement of relations between China and its neigh-bours as well as the improvement of dialogue among different civilizations. Emphasis is placed on the importance of the shared historical cultural heritage of the involved ethnic groups, while the idea of a ‘harmonious society’ is promoted at the same time. The aim of this article is to shed light on how China expands its soft power through civilizational connections along the Sino-Mongolian-Russian Economic Corridor by referring to the Silk Road Academic Belt. This article is based on ethnographic field research in Hénán Mongol Autonomous County in the Sino-Tibetan borderlands of Qīnghǎi Province during an international conference titled “Historical and Cultural Links between Mongolia and Tibet,” held in July 2017.1

scholarly journals Silk Road Heritage Branding and Polycentric Tourism Development

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 1893
Author(s):  
Stella Kostopoulou ◽  
Paraskevi-Kali Sofianou ◽  
Konstantinos Tsiokanos
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Spatial Scales ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Place Branding ◽  
Silk Road ◽  
Urban Centers ◽  
Northern Greece ◽  
Sustainable Tourism Development ◽  
Cultural Assets ◽  
Ultimate Objective

Cultural heritage, considered as a tool for sustainable tourism development and place branding, makes a destination appealing to visitors; hence, cultural heritage tourism can be a driving force for economic growth in cities and regions. Polycentricity is a useful multi-scalar concept in spatial theory that describes how adjacent urban centers can interact with each other, creating synergies and generating broader spatial networks. Cultural heritage and tourism, perceived as important factors of integration in a polycentric spatial structure, can further promote regional branding strategies. In this paper, a polycentricity index is introduced as a methodological tool for networking cultural heritage destinations, with an application to the Silk Road heritage. Silk Road cultural assets traced on the historical Silk Road routes linking East and West, can serve as tourist attraction poles and as an essential component for branding destinations through networking at various spatial scales. The Region of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace in Northern Greece, endowed with a plethora of Silk Road cultural assets, most of which are still untapped, is used to highlight the proposed methodology. The ultimate objective is the designation of polycentric destination networks based on Silk Road assets, in order to build regional branding opportunities over the Region.

“Band Wagon and Gravy Train”: uses and abuses along the Silk Road

Afghanistan ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-194
Author(s):  
Warwick Ball
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Silk Road ◽  
Late 20Th Century ◽  
Ancient Trade ◽  
International Image ◽  
Academic Discussion ◽  
The Silk Road

The Silk Road as an image is a relatively new one for Afghanistan. It appeals to both the pre-Islamic and the perceived Islamic past, thus offering an Islamic balance to previous identities linked to Bamiyan or to the Kushans. It also appeals to a broader and more international image, one that has been taken up by many other countries. This paper traces the rise of the image of the Silk Road and its use as a metaphor for ancient trade to encompass all contacts throughout Eurasia, prehistoric, ancient and modern, but also how the image has been adopted and expanded into many other areas: politics, tourism and academia. It is argued here that the origin and popularity of the term lies in late 20th century (and increasingly 21st century) politics rather than any reality of ancient trade. Its consequent validity as a metaphor in academic discussion is questioned

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