Urban Ecological Cemetery

Living in a promised land is always what a man has dreamed of for a lifetime. This article will try to unveil the mysteries of "eco-cemetery" and thus fully illustrate the meaning of "live as a guest to the world and die as returning to the home".The meaning for the eco-cemetery could be multiple. Explanation and truth could coexist even when they’re heading for opposite directions, be it either the image of preserving the ancient and mysterious culture or reflecting the diversified contemporary elements of fashion. This article is trying to explore the status quo of the Chinese cemetery from the point of view of human and environment:cramped burial area,"Castle Peak albino", even awkward situation that dead people take the surviving environment of living people, thus investigating and developing eco-cemetery could extraordinarily contribute to the social significance. In the mean time, it’s the historical mission for the contemporaries, which is the significant evidence why1chose this topic; then from the point of view of burial customs, sketching the origin and development of cemetery, it’s after the ecological situation of "dust to dust, ashes to ashes", beautiful as home, could get deeper understanding of reason on choosing the topic by defining the research range through the relevant concepts of cemetery; also from the point of view of ecological harmonious development, summarizing the characteristics and forms of the burial environment by each time and space, at home and aboard, they’re all materialization and concentration of sentiment which bears the viewpoints of life and death, the design of cemetery highlights the functionality of emotion and spirit, and also investigate the way and the trend for the eco-burial, reflecting the cultural context from all over the world, aiming to make foreign things serve China, the past serve the present, constructing ideal eco-cemetery, creating eco-cemetery that could adapt to the modern society, expecting dreams to come trueThis article talks about the background and reason of choosing the topic for the essay and summarizes the reseach result on cemetary achieved both at home and aboard. It has quite positive effect on further researh and realisitic significance by putting forward the idea that reseach and development of eco-cemetary of the our cities is imperative. Elaborate the origin and development of cemetary, as well as investigation on defining relevant concept, put forward that cemetary, cemetery, park and memorial park are connected by blood with similar properties. They all share similar functionality, it is that the cemetary harbors broader, extensive and more perfect functionality and also raise doubts for the definition of popular cemetary which makes it different, summarizing the characteristics and form of classical gardens in cemetaries and cemetaries both in acient and current time, comparing and analyzing them from various point of time in eastern and western history to put forward that the difference in eastern and western culture definitely leads to the difference of Chinese cemetaries and western ones. So the idea here is to make foreign things serve China and make the past serve the present and also elaborate the concept, meaning and essence of eco-cemetary, create the aim and developing trend for the eco-cemetary, put forward the framework for the eco-cemetary of cities, and elaborate the main structure components in order to innovate an eco-cemetary which is adaptive for the contemporary society and boost the hamonious development of people and nature. Carrying out empirical research by invetigating and exploring the wuhan celebrity culture park to check the summary of the cemetary theory, which could serve as reference of pratical gist for the construction, new thread and new means of the eco-cemetary of contemporary cities.