Abstract:

As one of three main types of traditional Chinese landscaping, temple landscaping is indeed important in Chinese history, especially for the reason of the arrangement of landscape plants. This article briefly introduces the history of development of Chinese temple landscaping and the basic varieties of landscape plants utilized, as well as summarizes the fundamental principles of arrangement of landscape plants in Chinese temple areas as following: using the plants preferred by Buddhists to preach Buddhist doctrine; following the principle of diversity and unity and carefully cultivating plants; mastering ecological characteristics of plants, local plants first.

Key words: landscape architecture, temple landscaping, arrangement of landscape plants