The Preliminary Research Of The Public Cemetery Landscape Design In China

The cemetery is a place to commemorate and recall the deceased, with a long history and profound cultural connotations; It is the important part of human life and development. Its production and development changes with the change of human world view and value, is the specific substances of representation for human ideas of life and death.Our country's public cemetery produced under the influence of western culture in modern time that is our main facilities of contemporary funeral industry. Due to our people generally hold abient psychology to death, the construction of public cemetery landscape was always been ignored and related research of cemetery landscape design also lack. These made the cemetery as memorial sites lost its due humanistic value. In many respects, most of our public cemetery didn't meet the needs of the public, or even bring negative impact to cityscape and urban living environment. Public cemetery as basic appendages is closely related to the development of the city. With the increase of population, the society will inevitably enter funeral peak. The rapid increase in demand for the funeral and interment, and cemeteries non-renewable raised another difficult problem to urban development. Seriously study the issue of public cemetery is not only about the problems of traditional Chinese cultural heritage, but also have close relate with the urban human settlements, urban sustainable development.This article on the basis of the existing problems for objective analysis our country's public cemetery construction, analyses the causes of the problems, makes clear public cemetery's social value and social function in contemporary, inheriting the essence of traditional cemetery design concept, reject the dross, reasonable use for reference of Western cemetery landscape design concept. And in the field investigation, base on the example analysis contrasts as well as consults the literature material; combine with our country's basic national conditions, investigating our landscape design method of public cemetery and building method of our country's public cemetery cultural and emotional atmosphere preliminary, with a view to provide opinion and suggestion of our public cemetery development.In the society background that land resource increasingly scarce and promotes'green funeral, saving land', this paper puts forward the essence of funeral consumer should be spirit consumption. The nature of cemetery existence is meet the spiritual need of people, thus the design of cemetery should not inherit traditional historical context, but also reflect the cultural characteristics of the times. Apart from basic funeral function, the public cemetery should also have multi-function as ecology, cultural inheritance, education and leisure and etc., making it become pure land to the dead, net park to the living.