The Chinese Imperial Tomb Landscape

The imperial tomb landscape in the ancient China has many different forms in the forming developing process which has received the geomancy situation discipline consciousness, lawing nature consciousness, ethics consciousness'influence and restriction. Quotation the related theory of landscape architecture, the imperial tomb landscape has been classified and reseached by three perspectives: the establishment types, the ethics types and the significs types. As a system, the imperial tomb establishment types can be divided into the altitude emphasis and the surface emphasis two styles. The former includes strong altitude pattern such as zhanguo zhongshan imperial tomb system; strong altitude weak surface pattern such as qinshihuang imperial tomb system, xihan imperial tomb system; mountain pattern such as tang imperial tomb system. The latter includes strong surface weak altitude pattern such as beisong imperial tomb system, strong surface pattern such as ming dynasty and qing dynasty imperial tomb system. The imperial tomb ethics types can be divided into the logos emphasis and the natural emphasis two styles. The former includes strong logos pattern such as zhanguo zhongshan imperial tomb system and qinshihuang imperial tomb system, strong logos weak natural pattern such as xihan imperial tomb system, beisong imperial tomb system; the latter includes strong natural weak logos pattern such as ming dynasty and qing dynasty imperial tomb system; strong natural pattern such as tang imperial tomb system. As a significs, the imperial tomb establishment types can be divided into the geometric significs and the symbolic significs two styles, the symbolic symbols includes imaging symbolic and figure symbolic.The reseach from different perspectives summed up the Characteristics and general rules of the imperial tomb landscape……from the layout of the site, it uses the skill methods of suiting the conditions, freely turned into the suitable situation, imitation of the capital's shapes, axis being to the imperia city; from the shape of the space, it uses the skill methods of putting the landscape within the nature, the coexistence of the exists and unexists, the landscape against with the nature, use one more shapes outside a shape; from the fluxline it uses the skill methods of designing more progressive and sequence, the primary axis and accessory axis, skiful drawing on the other scenery etc.The imperial tomb is the outstanding architectural heritage of China. Reseach the the imperial tomb of the ancient China from the landscape perspectives is conducive to inherited the tradition, mining tradition, rich the traditional architecture culture database, open up the pioneering study of traditional architecture visions, then we can obtain its conspicuity faceless feature.