英语专业)中英住宅文化语言价值(编辑修改稿)

英语专业)中英住宅文化语言价值(编辑修改稿)内容摘要：

he culture product Architectures appear as a result of residence, one of the basic material needs of human beings for sheltering from wind and rain. Thus, architectures are considered to be one of the most important material needs for human living. “Material needs for living are the basic needs of great importance for man kind’s existence, and they are the base on which people carry out their activities. Judging from the quality of the materials, they are natural. While they are made use of in the society of human civilization, the materials are shaped as a result of catering for people’s tastes of different cultures. Thus, the substances from the natural world had been affected by various cultures and became containers full of cultural information ” (Liu 104). Said Liu in his book and he took the building as one of the examples for his parative study between Chinese and western cultures. Descriptions on how architectures received the cultural meanings were made that: “Houses in the ancient times were very simple without any decoration. With the development of the social technology, people began to add their designing thoughts and decorative things to the simple houses they built as their abilities of building and modeling were strengthened. As time went by, the houses gradually got on cultural information and became the embodiment of different cultures” (Liu 117). Resulted in the variation of people’s intention and activities, various kinds of architectures with different functions came into being, such as palaces, churches, temples, gardens and so on. And it is said that: “The ability of building a house demands for a prehensive capability from a variety of aspects of fields. Architectures can most directly disclose the different cultures and people’s living styles in various areas and historical periods” (Fan 25). From this, it is obvious that architecture is the most important one among the cultural products. And it is the culture pattern that leads to the different features. Residence House built for living in is the kind of architectures for the basic practical use in the daily life. And it takes a leading position among all the buildings. There is a saying of behavioral scientists that: “The clothes are the expansion of one’s skin, while the residence is the limbs.” 淮阴师范学院 本科生毕业论文（设计） 5 Such a saying explains to the full that what one thinking in his mind would certainly affect his environmental conditions (Meng 2). “Residence is one of the basic living materials of mankind. It is the place where people carry out most of their activities, such as having meals, sleeps, holding marriage, sacrifices and so on. The appearance of the so called houses is the mark of the human civilizations” (Tang 5). Wang Wei also said in his book that: “House is certainly a kind of receptacle of concepts besides its basic practical functions for residing, and it keeps a relation to the creation of beauty” (Wang 137). From all the words above, the residence maintains most close relationship with people’s life and it is the house people spend most thoughts on. Hence, a conclusion can be reached that architecture is able to mirror the culture of the society and the residence, to some extent, reflects the character and concepts of the residents’ characters towards the society and the world. Therefore, we can say that the residence is the expansion not only of one’s limbs but also of the ideas and concepts. Residence is the form of architecture that can be to some extent a representative of the character and the thoughts of the resident. Then, the main features of residences in a country may surely be the reflection of the traditional culture of the nation. 4. Residences and the features China, one of the birthplaces of the oldest civilizations in the world, has a culture of extensive influence on the world history. The Great Britain is like other countries on the continent which had experienced the Roman Times, the MidAges and the Christ Society, a typical country of western culture. The book of Travels of Marco Polo brought Chinese cultures into the European world and made great impact on people’s lives, including the British. Most of the British people showed great interest in Chinese Confucius, tea, china, classical gardens, etc. Then the culture of tea had been developed in a unique British way and the gardens of “Le Jardin AngloChinois” had once been focused on attentively all over the European continent. Generally speaking, the distinctions between the architectural features of these two countries are obvious because they are typical countries of two extremely different culture patterns in the world. 淮阴师范学院 本科生毕业论文（设计） 6 Chinese residences Any country has not one certain style of house, but there must be a typical ones or a basic framework to be followed. China is the third largest country in the world with a large territory of various geographical conditions and the climates. As posed of 56 ethic groups, the cultures in China are of various kinds. For these reasons, the residences are of various styles. There are numbers of types of traditional living houses such as the bamboo houses in the southwest of the country, the “den residence” on the Loess Plateau and so on. However, among all the types of Chinese architectures, there is a basic form called quadrangle courtyard as the most original structure on which Chinese architectures developed. Someone explained how the courtyard developed from the basic structure of Chinese mon dwellings: The original Chinese form of mon people living house is the residence of three rooms in a line with a door in the central one… Then as the population grows larger, the family builds houses lengthwise on the two sides and the opposite as the wingrooms to form an enclosure in the middle. Such an enclosure is called。