The Research On Landscape Art Design Of Modern Cemetery In Xi’an

Influenced by the traditional culture of feudalism, the thought of urban and ruralresidents in China has been bound for thousands of years so that they shunned fromcemetery, a burial way of western style. Also this kind of thought hindered thedevelopment of cemetery landscape design in some extent, and leaded to the"malnutrition" phenomenon of the two "legs"—theoretical study and practice. However,with the growth of population, the speeding up of urbanization and the situation ofpopulation aging, a series problem of society and environment caused by burial hasgradually emerged. Therefore the traditional burial way cannot keep up with thedevelopment of modern urban civilization any more. In recent years, people concernedmore about the construction of cemeteries, as well as the art design of spatial landscapewith the development society and people’s social ideology. Although cemeteriesappeared in China for a short time, it has become an important part of social life, and isa place to bury and cherish the memory of the dead. It profoundly reflects the outlookon life, world outlook and values of modern people.This thesis first discussed the development process of cemeteries. Incorporatedwith the development of cemetery landscape in the domestic and overseas with themastery of Feng-shui theory and humanism theory, this thesis analyzed and discussedthe design of cemetery landscape in the perspective of environmental art and visioncommunication art, and then elaborated its importance of art design in cemeterylandscape with the research case of Xi’an as well as the excellent domestic case. Basedon the art design theory, the author analyzed the site planning and designing, landscape node design and the idea and design of plant configuration in the perspective ofenvironment art; on the view of vision communication art this thesis researched on theinfluence of topicality, regionality on the visual system and tap system, as well thegravestone art on cemetery landscape; on account of field research it demonstrated theimportance of art design and strived to integrate art design into modern cemetery, andadvocated cemetery landscape designers can play certain enlightenment significance. Itadvocates that in the future the designer should combine cultural inheritance, artappreciation, ecology, entertainment with modern cemetery.