| "Since there has been the building, there also has been the architectural culture."The traditional tablet is usually called"the soul of ancient architecture", It is one kind of ornament which is able to reflect the culture of Chinese ancient architecture and the architectural feature. It has multiple significances such as nomenclature, education, decoration and so on, and it has rich cultural content.There are five chapters in the paper. The first chapter introduces the motivation, the destination, the main content, and the significance of research. Based on the present literature, the second one discusses the origin and historical evolution of tablet and analyzes the objective factor of tablet's formation and development.The third chapter analyzes the content and the form of tablets from design and esthetics theory, proof common residence tablet decoration characteristic and the affection in the traditional residence environment; The fourth chapter further analyzes the culture of tablets in the traditional common residence environment from sociological, the history and the cultural science factor; Based on the society and the humanities, the fifth chapter analyzes the enlightenment and profits of the traditional tablet culture to the modern design from the design methodology.At present, literatures on the tablet or the tablet culture in China, most of them remain are photo collections and introductions, the study also emphasis on their literary, historical research and the production process. Even many architectural decorations on the academic information, only treat it as architectural decoration in the relatively minor part of a brief over. There is only in China that the tablet introduces the literary into architecture. Besides ancient Chinese literature's rich esoteric, makes our tablets even more difficult to carry out further research.Therefore, the author tried in the paper, from a multidisciplinary perspective of environmental art design, culture and sociology, to study tablets which are closely related to the traditional residence and the environment, as to analyze people's living and cultural, ethics, ideals and feelings Between the environment and traditional residence in a deeper level, and also the social environment of today's increasingly missing in a national tradition of research and restore the cultural, traditional residence on the environment, which is an essential component.Social institution and moral values has been a far more different from the past in China today, but the origin culture still exists. There should be a critical succession to the traditional tablet culture in today's environment art design. |