Investigation On The Culture Of Modern Cemetery Design In China

Cemetery is a place for those alive to remember and cherish those dead.As an important component in the life and evolution of humankind,it contains long history and deep culture.For the huge population and its aging problem,the demand of cemetery is continuously increasing.On the one hand,traditonal cemetery,nowadays, can not satisfy the public in various respects.On the other hand,because of taboo to death and many influces from social factors,the investigations and descriptions of cemetery only focus on the field of archaeology and culturology.Although the researchs on cemetery-landscape have attain some progress,the investigation on ecological cemetery-landscape and cemetery-culturology is far from enough.For cemetery's special functions,the paper put forth higher demand for its designing.Cemetery design should inherit the historic tradition,bear the sign of the times and contain innovative spirit.First,the culture about funeral and interment is extremely important in China's trational culture.It does not only reflect social politics, economics and culture,but also record the development of human society with unique carriers.To cultivate right attitude towards funeral and interment is favorable for the revolution of China's buries and will have profound influence on modern cemetery design.Second,cemetery-landscape design should satisfy the demand of ecology.It should fulfill special functioanl demands and maintain the ecological balance of natural environment on the basis of previous natural and human landscape.The paper proposes that space resources,various biological and landscape elements combined together,should be fully exploited to form a harmonious,orderly and stable ecological cemetery-landscape.Last,cemetery,as a carrier for people's cultural exchange and feeling expression,should be people-oriented and local-colored.On the basis of lots of related information from various reference books, combined with concrete examples,the paper gives detailed and systematic description of modern cemetery design for the purpose of supplying referable information and methods for future cemetery design.Through two different investigation perspective,design art and cemetery culture, the paper takes the culture of cemetery-landscape design as the objects of study, which supported by many theories from different disciplines,such as design science, culturology,ecology,etc.to investigate principles and methods and raise suggestions for modern cemetery-design.The paper mainly discusses the following respects based on the investigation of China's old cemetery-landscape and present situations.The development of China's trational funeral culture and cemeteryThe ecological and cultural construction of cemeteryThe principles and methods for cemetery design...