Progress and Frontier of Landscape Culture Research

Landscape culture is a new science and the comprehensive creation based on excellent tradition of cultural landscape.The paper has illustrated the generation and development of landscape culture,and introduced the current situation and progress of foreign researches on landscape culture according to the time order and research focuses.In terms of domestic research of landscape culture,it has been analyzed from the perspective of the study of theoretical connotation,landscape ecology,types of landscape culture and crossover study of itself.It considers that there exist some problems in domestic research on landscape culture,which are separation of traditional cultural landscape from modern landscape culture,separation in research methods,the influence of traditional culture on landscape,unbalanced development of regional landscape culture,separation of regional landscape network,and the insufficiency of protection and development.