Ancient architecture is the most brilliant crystallization in the history of classical Chinese architecture, in fact, in many ancient buildings we see today, it has long lost its original style, such as the Yellow Crane Tower in Wuhan, in fact, most of them have been modified by later generations, and even installed an elevator in it.
Counting the awareness of the protection of China's ancient buildings, most of them are formed in modern times, in the past few decades, ancient architectural civilization has been greatly damaged, there are many classic classical buildings have become history, China's famous ancient architecture expert Liang Sicheng and his wife Lin Huiyin in China's chaotic years, have traveled around the motherland, and in accordance with the way of style Lei, surveyed and mapped more than 2700 Ancient Chinese buildings, laying a solid foundation for future generations to study ancient buildings.
In fact, with regard to the ancient architecture of Beijing City, Liang Sicheng and Chen Zhanxiang of the Urban Planning Commission jointly proposed a plan for the construction of Beijing City, believing that in order to maintain the original antique style of Beijing City and realize the plan of integrating the two cities, a new city should be built on the western outskirts of Beijing. However, after this plan was proposed, it was opposed by most people, especially Wu Han, the vice mayor of Beijing at the time, and the Soviet experts who participated in the construction of Beijing at that time.
He persuaded Liang Sicheng that his thinking was conservative, and that after the future development of Beijing, high-rise buildings would be established, and these ancient buildings and archways would not all become chicken coops under high-rise buildings, and what cultural relics appreciation value scientific research. Liang Sicheng quarreled with him, so much so that he cried bitterly: In 50 years, history will prove that I am right. In order to save the ancient buildings of Beijing City, there were many disputes with many well-known people at that time, and even quarreled until they blushed and their necks were thick.
At that time, Lin Hui was suffering from lung disease, but still quoted the scriptures, and drank bitterly against the demolition of ancient buildings, according to the meeting of some people who had participated in the meeting that year, although Lin Hui was seriously ill at the time, he still pointed at Wu Han's nose and scolded: "You are demolishing real antiques with an eight-hundred-year history!" You really demolished the antiques, and you will regret it in the future! Even if you restore it, it's just a fake antique at best! ”
In fact, at that time, for the construction of Beijing City, more was to refer to the suggestions of Soviet experts, because Beijing as the capital, the future will inevitably accommodate more people, and the layout of the old city is not suitable for the large-scale influx of future population, so demolishing buildings and widening roads is an inevitable choice, and the idea of building a new city in Liang Chen's plan, although pertinent, but with China's national strength at that time, it is speculated that to build this new city, it will cost more manpower and material resources, which is not suitable for the development of that era.
Of course, the population expansion of Beijing City, is not a year or two, in order to develop for a long time, the demolition of the old city, is really not a wise choice, and the later historical development has indeed proved the correctness of Liang Sicheng, in that year most of the ancient buildings that were demolished, in the nineties have been successively restored, but unfortunately demolished is demolished, and the new construction has also lost the original style of the year