The Study On The Plant Design Of Zhongshan Cemetery

The Zhongshan cemetery is not only a landscape territory entrusted with specific nature resource, but also the cultural heritage of Nanjing. As an important part of the city, it presents the unique natural and cultural style of Nanjing and plays a significant role in maintaining and improving the ecological system of the city. However, most existing researches focus on plant's species and transformation in this area. Few of them are concerned with the plant designing.Based on field investigation and analysis, this paper tends to figure out the general rules and quantitative relations in terms of plant designing of Zhongshan Cemetery. The research takes the main scenic sites of Zhongshan Cemetery as the objects, which is consisted by Zhongshan Cemetery axle wire, Bandstand, Sun Yat-Sen memorial hall and Linggu Tempel, and analyzes the current plant species in the phytosociological and aesthetics context. Through the analysis of species distribution, quantity and diversity in the four scenic sites, the research summarizes the features of plant designing of memorial landscape. The data shows that memorial landscape normally is regular style using evergreen plants such as Cupressaceae,Pinaceae,Rosaceae and Magnoliaceae, while natural style uses species having particular color and shape such as Rosaceae,Aceraceae,Hamamelidaceae,Oleaceae.As for the aesthetic evaluation of the plants, the research applies the AHP-fuzzy comprehensive evaluation model to the Zhongshan Cemetery. The result presents that plants in the memorial landscape such as the Zhongshan cemetery are used to strengthen the memorial meaning of the site. In conclusion, the aesthetic grade of Zhongshan Cemetery is classified as fairly beautiful.Finally, according to the analysis, this paper sums up the characteristics of the plants in memorial landscape as strong memorial-oriented aura, clear layered space, regular order, ornamental, various and colorful. The comment author raises in this paper concludes the protection of the local species and the increase of the deciduous, shrubby and creepy species. In summary, the plant design should have the compatibility of the science, art, technique, economy and time.