Jingyi Sun, Jiwen Xie, Wanyao Hu, Zihe Sun, Daojing Wang

Daojing Wang

May 30, 2025

Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum, Cultural characteristics, Symbol.

"Adhering to the principles of European and American science and the advantages of Chinese art" is the architectural design principle and standard of the Republic of China given by Sun Ke in the preface of the "Capital Plan". The Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum designed by architect Mr. Lv Yanzhi cleverly combines the rationality and orderliness of Western culture with the sensibility and romanticism of Chinese culture in site selection and planning layout, presenting a mixed cultural feature of Chinese and Western cultures. In terms of layout, the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum has a strong sense of rationality and orderliness, manifested in: planning the architectural layout according to the symmetry of the central axis, paying attention to the proportion and scale relationship of Western classical architecture, and using geometric shapes to regulate and strengthen the relationship between architecture and the environment. In terms of building site selection and sequence planning, it follows the ideas and methods of traditional Chinese imperial tomb architecture, but has been simplified, with the building using a bell-shape to metaphor "wooden priests warning the world", and imply Mr. Sun Yat-sen's ideas and propositions through numbers. The integration of Chinese and Western cultures has endowed the architecture of Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum with both the solemn and magnificent rational beauty of Western style architecture and the emotional beauty of traditional Chinese architecture.

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