Abstract:Rapid developments among historical and cultural cities in China has greatly promoted the emergence of new urban areas. Architects and city planners have always been wondering and exploring how to preserve original cultural context in the construction of new towns, such as creating new urban areas and new buildings with historical characteristics. This article will be picking on three examples: the culture-oriented travel center of the capital in Ming Dynasty, intangible cultural heritage exhibition center, and Yunji community cultural center in Fengyang Anhui Province. The article will analyze connections in site selections between the three groups of cultural buildings and the three sacrificial temples in Zhongdu Capital of Ming Dynasty: the Imperial Temple of Emperors of Successive Dynasties, the Temple of the Founding Ministers and the Temple of the Town God of the Zhongdu Capital. The analysis would explore the historical changes of the three ancestral temples in the urban morphology during the capital period of the Ming Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty and modern times. Furthermore, the article would discuss how to trace the city’s spiritual, historical, and cultural context in order to combine traditional essence into the construction of historically and culturally unique urban spaces. The goal is to explore how the new urban area should activate the historical code, select the appropriate architectural language, and innovate the neo-traditional architecture that integrates the heritage of history and the spirit of place. Taking the design practice of three groups of new buildings in Fengyang County as an example, it is an active attempt to highlight the historical, urban and cultural context of the historical city represented by the capital of the Ming Dynasty