城墙的文化意义与当代城墙文化保护

城墙是人类文明发展史上阶段性的产物;城墙文化伴随城墙自始至终,是人类城市文明史的重要组成部分。即便当物质城墙消失以后,城墙文化仍然肩负着解读城市历史的功能。中国的城墙发端于新石器时期,发展于春秋战国,普及于秦汉,颠峰于明代大部分消亡于20世纪。其中有三次筑城高潮。现存的中国地面遗存城墙绝大多数为明清时期建造或修筑。到了近现代,重型火炮等先进军事设备在中国的出现,昭示着冷兵器时代城市防御工事——城墙原始功能上的蜕化与不足。最终导致大量地面城墙的消失。这种消失主要由自然界因素,战乱摧残和人为拆除三种因素造成,最严重和最彻底的是后者。

Cultural Meaning of City Wall and Cultural Preservation of Contemporary City Wall

City Wall,as the staged product of human civilization development,is accompanied by city wall culture which has been playing an essential part in human city civilization history from the beginning to the end.Even when city wall disappears,city wall culture still shoulders the responsibility of interpreting city history. Since contemporary and modern China,advanced military equipments such as heavy cannons appeared,which denoted the degradation of the original function of city wall(city defense unit) at Cold...