What is the City Central Axis?

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The axis is like the "main artery" of a city, each great city has its unique urban axis, which represents the development of cities and their planning in the past generations, as well as the highest level of architects, and the central axis of Beijing is an architectural axis that is extremely rare in the history of world cities.

Architect Liang Sicheng once said that by building cities in a planned way, we are the most advanced nation in history. In ancient times, "yingguo building room", that is, urban planning and architecture, have always been on a par. In his view, Beijing's best deployment is its north-south axis. It starts from the Bell and Drum Tower in the north, passes through Wanning Bridge, Jingshan, Forbidden City, Tiananmen, Zhengyang Gate to Yongdingmen in the south and north of the city in the south and north, like a backbone, forming a symmetrical urban structure with two wings and a transportation network in all directions, since the establishment of the capital of the Yuan Dynasty for more than 750 years, it has been dominating the urban function and spatial pattern.

In addition, the central axis of Beijing is also a spiritual axis and a cultural axis, witnessing the ancient Chinese culture and the endless soup. It is full of wonderful presentations of life symbols and countless unforgettable memories. Countless people pass by here, countless stories take place here, and countless people's childhood memories are frozen here. It not only connects the historical civilization and the urban context, but also connects you, me, him, and everyone who lives in Beijing.

At 14:00 on December 26, 2021, we invited Zhu Zuxi, a distinguished expert of the Chinese Society of Cultural Relics, Geng Shuo, associate professor of the School of Humanities of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, and Tang Gengsheng, former director of the China Memory Project Center of the National Library of China, to be guests of SKP-S2F SKP RENDEZ-VOUS to talk about the pattern evolution and cultural inheritance on the central axis.

Duty Editor Kang Hee-hee