Afterthought of the Old Summer Palace Restoration - Study on Protection and Development of the Chinese Landscape Cultural Heritage Based on Ontology

Abstract

The development and protection of the Old Summer Palace (Yuan Ming Yuan) in Beijing China have received extensive attention in China and even in the whole world. According to social surveys, tourists have been found that it is never to form whole memory of the Old Summer Palace. The urbanization and improper protection threat the integrity of the O ld Summer Palace ruins. Their artistic value, cultural value, historical value is gradually weakening, and becoming disappeared from human memory. V isual stimuli is the main style of landscape perception, however, vast Chinese gardens used to be on the Old Summer Palace ruins, almost did not leave any physical entity element that can convey the landscape features, so many tourists ignored the Old Summer Palace has real artistic value as the essence of Chinese traditional gardens. It is a big issue if we maintain the destroyed status or restore it? Orientals learn and accept the rules and methods for cultural heritage protection proposed by Westerners, and then they continue examining and understanding their own culture. NARA Declaration, means that Orientals redefine the concept of their own culture and values about Being as a matter of cultural heritage protection and standard development. This paper proposes that regeneration is one of the most important ways to excavate Chinese culture if landscape cultural heritage could be an ontological issue. For regeneration, we should pa y attention on survival process, and not too much on death souvenir. Because Chinese culture emphasizes reincarnation, the energy of life maintenance, but the form of life is not necessarily the same, because of the life style is from generation to generation. T his paper is based on the premise of sustainable development and globalization in the modern world. The Old Summer Palace in Beijing is as the object and we discuss from the perspective of Eastern philosophy of landscape and cultural heritage protection and development. Based on ontology research, this paper can give suggestions about landscape preservation and development of cultural heritage in China, and even we can make contribution for cultural tourism of China. C omment: The Old Summer Palace, known in Chinese as Yuan Ming Yuan (the Gardens of Perfect Brightness), and originally called the Imperial Gardens. Beijing, China