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Fig. 3.
The virtual view of
Hanyuan Hall Palace;
from B. Zhou, Daming
Palace cit., p. 18.
Not only these three halls, there were numerous auxiliary buildings
designed surrounding, and to accomplish a splendid royal palace
with complexity and accuracy.
According to the records and archaeological investments, the northern
imperial residence part included Taiye Lake, Linde Hall, and
Sanqing Hall, etc. Taiye Lake was the essential area of northern part,
and all the entertainment activities almost were organized around
it. This artificial lake is nearly 16,000 square meters, with cloisters
surrounding, and hills in the middle. As to the Linde Hall, it was
arranged for royal banquet, encountering the foreign ambassador.
The entire architecture was constructed on a 10,000 square meters
hathpace, and the total surface reached 12,300 square meters. Another
important building in northern part was Sanqing Hall, which
represented the leading character of Taoism in Daming Palace. It’s
foundation hathpace as high as 14 meters, standing on a striking
location. Merely through those fragments of historical records and
the limited archaeological investments on Daming Palace, we could
easily image the magnificent prospect, and the prosperity of that era.
Facing to this non-precedent urban scale heritage, people were lost
at the beginning, since 1957. When it was discovered in Xi’an, the
survey showed that the implication of this heritage was ambiguous
in the society. In this sense, the mechanism by which the society
remembers that era didn’t work efficiently. Those gave birth to the
discrepancy of the attitude to the relic among various parties. The
controversies were risen among the urbanist, government, local community,
archaeologist, and museologist. For the urbanist, the ruins
occupied large area of the city centre, prohibiting the development of
the urbanization. The huge areas caused the economic problems to
the government. Since industry, and lot of activities were not permitted
on this precious ruins, this area became slum, which even worsen
the environment. On the other hand, archaeologist realized that it’s
impossible to expect the local citizen to well preserve those ruins,
not only because they couldn’t appreciate the real value of this site,
they even considered the relics were the barriers for their better life.
The final dilemma situation was for the museologist. Given that the
main body of the architecture already disappeared, it’s challenging
to install the exhibition to make the society to remember the past.
Until 2007, the feasible project was implicated, to active the time
machine for the past, confronting of all these controversies. The
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