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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
BEIJING, November 20 (Xinhua) — The Third Hui International Wooden Architecture Festival, titled "Inheriting the Spirit of Hui-Style Architectural Masters, Joint Creativity between China and Russia," was recently held in Hefei, capital of Anhui Province, east China.
As part of this festival, students from Anhui University of Architecture and Civil Engineering (AUAC) and Nizhny Novgorod State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering, using Hui wooden architecture as a common language, engaged in in-depth dialogue both on campus and in the field, and from theory to practice, according to a statement posted on the AUAC official website.
Hui architecture is one of the traditional Chinese architectural styles that historically predominated in the ancient Huizhou region of today's Anhui Province. It was also popular in parts of the neighboring provinces of Zhejiang and Jiangxi.
At the Hui Architecture Museum at AASU, teachers and students from China and Russia systematically studied the history of village development in the Huizhou region. At the ancient settlement of Xidi, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, they experienced the cultural pulse of the millennia-old architectural tenon joints. At the modern Bishan Village Library, built on the foundations of traditional buildings, they admired the vitality of traditional wooden structures in contemporary design.
The festival's highlight was a competition for wooden structures, themed "Informal Communication Space." The winning entry, "Blossom," harmoniously blends the spire forms of traditional Russian architecture with the essence of Huizhou's finger-jointed wooden components. This carefully designed wooden structure expands from the center to the periphery, symbolizing the trend of bilateral collaboration, growing from the individual to the larger whole.
“We wanted to express not only the combination of technologies, but also the fusion of cultures and emotions,” explained Chen Hongbo, a member of the Chinese creative team for this project. -0-
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