The Study Of The Application Of Chinese Dragon Culture In Landscape Design

Chinese dragon culture plays different roles in many aspects as traditional culture for thousands of years,such as regional geomancy, status symbol, aesthetic decoration and so on.Dragons show the characteristics in different types and forms in different historical periods.People have finished the dragons with unity of form and spirit through the characteristics, highlighting the Chinese traditional culture and aesthetic artistic conception. As the development of society, people modified the traditional dragon forms with the spirit of the dragons, and applied it to various designs combined with modern elements. Of course,the landscape design is not an exception.Landscape design is the intersection of multiple disciplines, involving different meanings about different disciplines. Different landscape elements offer a wide range of material for high landscape design.If you want to have a harmonious and beautiful landscape design, you must to carry on the system of various elements, combining the geomancy to form an orderly space.Integration process of Chinese dragon culture and landscape design is inheritance and transcendence of cultural forms influenced by the modern landscape design concept. It extracted traditional dragon shapes and meaning and used various symbolic significance of dragons to make the modern interpretation creative in the application of landscape design. Blend Chinese culture into landscape design does not mean supporting the conservatism, nor misappropriating the ancient form of landscape design, more is not a pure cultural worship and praise highly. The Chinese cultural connotation become more and more rich by studying,it has a certain reference value for the change and innovation on Chinese cultural inheritance and applying,as well as the development of Chinese traditional culture.The paper starts by the symbol of Chinese dragon cultural concepts and various shapes of dragon in every period. Through collecting, sorting and analysising a lot of dragon design examples and combining with Chinese cultural concepts, symbols, aesthetic expression aspects summarize the forms and methods in Chinese dragon culture,then lucubrate the aesthetic role and social value of Chinese culture in landscape design from meaning,form,beauty.Finally,the paper puts forward some common problems in Chinese cultural landscape design as well as the innovation in the future on the basis of the example application.