The Landscape's Cultural Values Development And Utilization Of The Xi'an Circumvallation

Nowadays, the Xi'an Circumvallation has been kept as valuable cultural landscape architecture, but not as the city defensive fortification. Xi'an City was approved as the historical and cultural city in 1982, and not only works at protecting single one of sites of historical interest and cultural relics or historical ruins, but also pay more attention to protect Xi'an Ming Dynasty Circumvallation in it's integrity over the whole city's urban pattern.From 1983, the overall renovation of the Xi'an Circumvallation was started by Shaanxi Province Government and Xi'an City Government, the City Gate of the Circumvallation's East Gate, the Lock Tower and Suspense Bridge of the South Gate, the Archery Tower of the North Gate, which had been destroyed in the war, had been rebuilt step by step. Also the Xi'an Circumvallation Parks have been set up. All of these efforts make historical ancient city Xi'an an amazing beautiful landscape around.The protection of the Xi'an Circumvallation plays a very active part for the protection of Xi'an City as the historical and cultural city. The Xi'an Circumvallation as the important factor for showing the Xi'an City's integrity urban pattern and as one of the most extensive widespread open spaces in this city, turns to be the significant finite element for conformation of the modern city road net and one of the most emphasis ingredient of the landscape architecture in Xi'an. Considering of the Xi'an Circumvallation's historical cultural values, its significance of constructing the city pattern and area landscape architecture system, and all different kinds of visitors come over after opened free, the landscapes cultural values development and utilization of the Xi'an Circumvallation becomes a burning question.The Xi'an Circumvallation Fitness Park opened for free as the grand present for the 2008 Olympic Games in 2008 July 30th. By the side of the Ming Dynasty ancient Circumvallation, the Xi'an Circumvallation Fitness Park has its uniqueness in the world. The park is 14 kilometers long, being divided into 4 parts in totally numbers of 14 Fitness Sections. It is the longest commonweal free park with as huge amount as ten thousands of visitors everyday.This paper analyses the Xi'an Circumvallation area landscapes cultural values' development and utilization from the aspects ofâ‘ park building including the plants, architectures, roadsâ‘¡art building including the sculptures, the lighting, the art activesâ‘¢fitness equipment building andâ‘£the visitors participation, and points out series of uncivilized behaviors which may harm the circumvallation and the park circumstances as well as the potential safety hazards in the areas which may harm the visitors what finally lead to the harm to the Xi'an Circumvallation and its cultural values.