| A period of blindness and crisis approaches a certain circumstance along with that of prosperity. In the history of designation, the trend of globalization and assimilation have been gradually appearing and initiated people's thinking and advocacy on the characteristic cultures that are both regional and national.China's landscape design is also developing tremendously in a crucial period led by the global trend. Firstly, the extensive marketing has brought the opportunity that has never been brought before. Advanced technology, mature designing skills and splendid experience from designing companies have developed and popularized China's landscape; Secondly, obvious problems such as high-speed, copying, formalism push China to face up more problems of copying and assimilation in condition of maintaining the key role of southern landscape.China is a country with large surface area, long geographic span, obvious climate differences and various natural supplies. Related to people's common understanding to landscape, that is, the concern to some factors such as flowers, grass, trees and rivers, every landscape design of different areas has its own characteristic and expresses its own culture on design elements and methods. And they should be developed in terms of theory, economy and culture.Through the point of ice and snow landscape ----the most characteristic factor of the landscape in northern China, this article aims to discuss and explore the developing direction of northern landscape design, arrange a favorable circulatory pattern suitable for the north and the design system and commercial exploitation that stresses its regional and cultural features, attaching great importance to the regional and national culture, performing specifically the real characteristic landscape, to add some plentiful elements to the regional, characteristic, and various development of the landscape in China, enrich and balance the development of pluralism and vitalize the development of the whole landscape. |