关键词: 徽州牌坊, 遗存, 文化内涵, 当代价值, 活化

Abstract: Huizhou is known as “township of the memorial arches” for its numerous arches with a long history and rich types. The functions of the arches developed from the original space boundary divisions to the construction containing the cultural meanings of architecture, label, filial piety, which is of farreaching significance for their reflecting the social development and the change of ideology of the old in Chinese. The remains of the arches through the changes of the ages are introduced. The excellent cultural genes embodied behind these arches: hard struggle, filial piety, anticorruption are discussed. With combination of the present characteristics, the cultural meanings of those excellent arches are activated so as to promote their contemporary values, endue them with new values and marked effects of the time.

Key words: Huizhou memorial arch, remains, culture connotation, contemporary value, activation