A Brief Study On Spacial Planning Of Urban Cemetery In Southern Fujian

On the life journey of human life, birth and death;oldness and illness, all those are law of nature that no one can resist. The "end" of life means its full stop. In the evolution process from ancient times to the modern civilized society,under the influences of different regions, different nationalities, different countries and different cultural background, from the powerful celebrities to ordinary people, a colorful social cultural art form on the values of life and death is displayed, among which funeral culture is also included.Funeral culture to a certain extent, covers human’s world view, life view, ecological view, economic view, aesthetic,humanistic care and its emotional attachment,etc.It is an indispensable part of human civilization.In China, due to the deep influence of traditional view of life and death, people rarely talk about cemetery as they worship and fear the ghosts and gods. For a long time, people hold an evasive attitude towards city cemetery, as they believe that life and death belongs to Yin and Yang separately. Being part of of the whole urban construction though, urban cemetery has never reached the position that it deserves, resulting in the waste of both spiritual cultural resources and environment resources, the city also therefore lose one of its important parts.Because of the lack of related science and mature theoretical guidance, the drive of interest and short-term planning behavior influenced by consciousness of myopia, most cemetery in our country now are improperly designed, lacking cultural taste. The urban cemetery is in a marginal position in the urban space and develops slowly.In fact, as a basic city appendant, the cemetery is a special commemorative space, a place where the city history is carried, it should not be a place that is gloomy and horrible. Instead, it needs to be a place that is filled with humanistic care, where historical vicissitudes are highlighted, moreover,a place where the beauty of architecture is displayed and folk-customs are separated. Therefore,to change the single memory demands expression of cemetery is very urgent. Through the study on similarities of cemetery culture (comparison between China’s and west cemetery cultural), and observation of "personalization"(in the perspective of the diverse religious cultural beliefs in Southern Fujian), this paper discusses "space planning of modern city cemetery " that is suitable for the spiritual cultural in Southern Fujian area. The paper contributes to provide rational suggestions to promote modern cemetery spirit culture in order to satisfy the demands of different religious culture of funeral, relieve the contradictions of land for the funeral, protect the natural environment and realize the harmonious coexistence of man and nature.