Research On Ecological Landscape Of Contemporary Cemetery

Funeral activities are produced by the renew of generations and traditional custom, it reflects the spiritual civilization. To some extent, as the urban civilization, the emergence and development of cemetery can reflect the accumulation of domestic traditional culture. It bears the inheritance of Chinese traditional culture, and it's also an important part in the construction of urban environment.In contemporary society, the public cemeteries are the place for mourning and also bear the national funeral reformation. The public cemetery is no longer the single function place, it has become the landscape cemetery integrating many functions such as entertainment, culture publicity, tourism and so on. As the special function of cemetery, domestic research on cemetery is mainly focus on history, archaeology, funeral tradition and other aspects. The attention on the landscape cemetery is not enough. As high population and serious aging phenomenon, the cemetery is in high demand. One of the reasons are the limitation of land resources. As the environment of already built cemetery takes a poor quality, The infrastructure takes a lot of land which leaves limited space to cemetery. Another reason is the aging phenomenon. The unsustainable traditional funeral leads to the pollution to urban environment.Concerning such a social reality, the author proposes ideas on ecological cemetery landscape for the development of cemetery in future. By the analysis of traditional funeral culture, the thesis insists to promote harmonious and ecological funeral culture. Based on ecological culture, the thesis analyzes domestic and foreign theory on landscape, including the landscape ecology, ecological garden and ecological esthetic theory. Meanwhile, the thesis also refers to a lot of excellent cases and design experience, so as to integrates a strategy on cemetery landscape:Abandon traditional funeral manners and adopt ecological funeral way. Focuses on the urgent situation of contemporary funeral field, the thesis proposes means to optimize the ecological landscape layout and recover the ecological environment, so as to utilize the force of natural process in a creative way and lead the nature to impact on cemetery. For the land shortage phenomenon, the thesis claims to utilize the abandoned land, develop return to nature forest, create landscape cemetery, preserve cultural landscape and develop ecological tourism. As the preview for future, the author proposes a scheme to build web cemetery which is sustainable and new, so as to solve the searing price and land lack problems of cemetery. At last, the thesis gives some ideas on the domestic funeral reformation to provide more possibilities and beneficial values for the transformation to ecological cemetery. In order to provide more theory back up and guidance for domestic landscape construction, the thesis does a systematized research on contemporary cemetery in a way as theory research---technical research---empirical research. As the research on landscape deepens, it will promote the harmonious development between human and nature.