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Abstract Study on the relationship between landscape beauty and ecological beauty is an important scientific problem that reflects the nature of man-land relation, and current academic researches on this topic are most based on a single perspective. Therefore, this paper took the Confucius Temple-Qinhuai River Scenic Area in Nanjing City as a typical case of urban traditional cultural tourism destination, adopted landscape pattern, indexes and balanced incomplete block comparison and evaluation method as the evaluation standards of ecological beauty and landscape beauty, and analyzed the coupling characteristics and rules of landscape pattern and landscape aesthetics. The results showed that (a) The overall landscape of the study area had higher fragmentation degree, but different landscape groups were influenced by different human interventions, landscape patches showed moderate diversity and heterogeneity, patch area, spatial distribution, and spatial aggregation degree showed structural differences, (b) The locals and visitors had aesthetic perception of the study area, but preferred the beautiful natural scenery of the Qinhuai Rivet; as well as the historical buildings and cultural landscapes that contain rich memories of the city, (c) landscape pattern and landscape aesthetics showed coupled complementation and harmonious coexistence. The Confucius Temple-Qinhuai River Scenic Area has profound historical and cultural background, but it has witnessed gradual loss of cultural characteristics and fast "delocalization" against the background of rapid urbanization. As an urban traditional cultural tourism destination, it carries the responsibility of protecting city memories and inheriting regional cultures.
Keywords Urban traditional cultural tourism destination, Landscape pattern, Landscape aesthetics, Coupling, Confucius Temple-Qinhuai Rivet Scenic Bek
DOI 10.16785/jissn 1943-989x20163.014
Landscape first appeared in The Old Testament for describing the splendid scene of Jerusalem, it was equal to "scenery" in English[1]. Then paraphrase and research scope of landscape have been gradually expanded[2,3], aesthetics, architecture, geology, sociology, landscape ecology and urban planning have been introduced for the pertinent researches from different perspectives. For example, GIS, RS, GPS, landscape model and scenario simulation were applied, various landscape types were selected based on different spatial scales, such as forest vegetation, plateau, oceanfront, wetland, farmland, world natural heritage, agricultural cultural heritage, rural settlement and city for the quantitative research on landscape pattern. The research contents included evolution features of landscape pattern and influence factors[4,5], evolution scenario simulation[6], ecological effect and...