The Characteristics And Evaluation Of Landscape Features In The Daming Palace National Heritage Park

The Ruins of Daming Palace is the best-preserved palace ruins at present in China. As one of the masterpieces on the ancient palaces, the Ruins of Daming Palace has a high historical, scientific and artistic value and provides precious materials for the study on the Tang Dynasty architecture. In this study, methods of literature review and field surveys were used. On the base of clear concepts of"site"and"heritage park", the planning ideas and landscape design features of Daming Palace National Heritage Park were studied. Besides, the author analyzed the deficiencies of its landscape design, and then put forward countermeasures of landscape protection and development. The main conclusions are as follows:1,As a new form of ruins protection, Daming Palace National Heritage Park protects and restores appropriately the ruins itself and the natural environment around. Also, it is a new kind of platform that combines ruins protection and display together and open to the society.2 The landscape design of Daming Palace National Heritage Park is guided by the cultural connotations of the Ruins of Daming Palace. Its thematic image is presented in the form of landscape, by spatial location, building construction, plant configurations and so on, in order to enable people to experience deeply the charms of Tang culture and the Garden environments of the ancient imperial life.3,There are some problems in landscape design of Daming Palace National Heritage Park, for instance, the system planning is not clear, some inner spirit is not exactly expressed, and part of landscape details are not match the whole environment.4,In the landscape construction of Daming Palace National Heritage Park, under the principle of "repair the old as the old", modern technology like audio, light, electronics etc should be fully used to give a modern display on the local key site. It could not only load the functions of ruins conservation, utilization and display, but it can be also used as a teaching base for the emergency shelters in Xi'an area.