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Since ancient times, Chinese funeral ritual is one of the most important social events. It is profound, has a long history, after several years of development and evolution has formed a complete system of funeral culture. Chinese traditional culture has become an important part. Cemetery as the funeral ritual of the carrier, and its construction and development in different historical periods and social background have different characteristics.In the current society, our capacity building in urban public cemetery will surge. However, the scarcity of land resources, China's current urban population is increasing rapidly, according to statistics by China's urban population more than 8 times than the standard. "Death can not afford to" have the word has been in the city gradually spread, therefore, cheap environmentally friendly burial methods, and a large public cemetery into the characteristics of this era. China is a deep-rooted traditional concepts of national funeral, wants to change its traditional funeral system is unrealistic in the short term. This makes the design of the current cemetery need to actively study of Chinese people's traditional funeral practices, designed in line with China's national conditions of function space and the spirit of space to fit people's needs of Funeral Customs.With the rapid development of China's economy, people's aesthetic sense of the continuous improvement of the current cemetery design has failed to meet the people's aesthetic. Because of various social and historical factors, the cemetery of more limited history, archeology and architecture, which is basically concentrated in the ancient tombs of architecture, this part of the art of urban public cemetery is the product of the times is it the product of spiritual civilization is the carrier of Chinese traditional culture and heritage. Further acceleration of urbanization in China today, rigorous, serious problems of the city cemetery and city a good living environment, urban sustainable development has a direct relationship closely. Therefore, the problem of the city cemetery of great practical significance. Meanwhile, China's public cemetery of the design development time is shorter, until the last 20 years and a true sense of the modern cemetery, and some small towns still have no public cemetery. Lead to the design of the public cemetery at the end of various design, less attention. Based on the status quo of contemporary cemetery for basic research, integrating a set of times in the cemetery design is imperative.This article will first define the concept according to cemetery, combining theoretical guidance and practical experience summed up the basic characteristics of cemetery. Secondly, the paper plans to build on the cemetery-depth study of the basic theory, put together a more comprehensive theoretical results, including:the Taoist philosophy, Chinese traditional tomb of the inheritance. Third, this study based on the Taoist philosophy guided by the results, in respect of traditional Chinese culture under the premise of Feng Shui, by design, history, culture, ecology, tourism, science and other disciplines of study, discuss the current landscape cemetery planning and design principles and methods.On the cemetery planning and design principles and landscape design, content research. Both combined and interwoven. Finally, the conclusions drawn by cemetery planning and landscape design of the study, the cemetery completely beat create art, environmental protection, and to promote the development of tourism cemetery, and further study of the content.Based on the research methods, adhere to strict scientific attitude and philosophy of taking-Planning and Design-landscape design research methods building on the cemetery landscape art of systematic research, to design for our cemeteries and to provide more theoretical basis design, landscape design and then the cemetery planning further studies to promote the harmonious development between man and nature.