The Application Of Chinese Traditional Patterns In Tourist Landscape Design

With a long history, China takes its profound traditional culture as the nationalbackbone of spirits. Originated from traditional culture, traditional patterns reflect thehistory and clue of cultures. As one of traditional cultures, Chinese traditional patternsare still being used in modern times. These patterns demonstrate the aestheticappreciation and cultural connotation of each historical period, and they are symbolsof Chinese civilization and development. As a spiritual treasure for China, traditionalpatterns are highly expected to be inherited and learned by generations of Chinesedescendents.The trend of globalization impacts every field, and traditional culture is noexception. Chinese designing is influenced a lot in cross-cultural exchanges betweendifferent ethnic groups. In recent years, China’s national art of designing, to someextent, lost its ethnic identity, because of simple imitation of western arts. To makeChina’s designing styles and language distinguished in the world, it is of greatnecessity to make a thorough analysis of Chinese cultural features. Thus, in order todistinguish Chinese designing languages and styles from the outside world, it is ofgreat significance to thoroughly analyze Chinese distinct culture. Chinese traditionalcultures exist not only in books by philosophers, but also in development oftraditional crafts. So, traditional patterns are cultural heritage for the world. Toconclude, by adopting traditional graphics and patterns as their symbols for creation,Chinese designers would find their unique Chinese cultural identity.In the process of urbanization, large numbers of city parks and amusement siteshave been constructed, which led many cities to be similar in designing, with no localfeatures. And this has become a common problem. The domestic rising of tourismindustry has also resulted in serious damage to cultural relics and environment. Withmore amusement sites built, tourism contributed a lot to economic development andconsumption. However, people’s ideas about tourism tend to be increasingly blindand confusing. Hence, it is necessary to build up or revive China’s distinctive tourism culture and local features. If people’s aesthetical standard in tourism can beenhanced, tourism can be led to correct directions.Based on the researches on Chinese traditional graphics and patterns, this thesisaims at analyzing the essence and connotation of patterns, exploring and summarizingpatterns’role in development of culture. By analyzing and concluding characteristicsof Chinese patterns from their very beginning, this thesis tries to search for theirimplied messages. In addition, this thesis also explores the cultural connotations inintergradations of traditional graphic and modern design. Furthermore, this thesisillustrates the designing features of Chinese traditional patterns and how they areapplied in tourist landscape designs. This essay includes certain theoretical studiesand case studies of featured landscapes, landscape architectures and public spacedesign. Case studies are adopted to analyze the application of traditional patterns intourist landscape design, and this study is significant in coping with crisis of cityconstruction. This thesis is of referential value for tourist landscape designs withChinese characteristics, and for maintaining Chinese unique cultural identity.