A Study on the Design and Display of Spatio-temporal Database of the History and Culture of "Three Hills and Five Gardens"

Zhang Ziying, Chi Hong, Wang Hui, Cao Ying, Liu Ge

Abstract: As the largest royal garden, “three hills and five gardens” is a masterpiece in the history of world gardening. With important information of Beijing’s history and culture, it is a three-dimensional historical book describing history and culture in the form of garden. Based on the literature, the cultural elements are condensed and the elemental pedigree chart of spatio-temporal database of “three hills and five gardens” came into being with reference to the idea of knowledge map and rich cultural elements. The aim of this research is to excavate the historical and cultural connotation of “three hills and five gardens”, relying on information technology, taking the history and culture of “three hill and five gardens” as the theme, taking cultural pedigree as the core. Therefore, the spatial and temporal database of history and culture of “three hills and five gardens” has been constructed to provide support for the heritage and application of history and culture in order to serve for the research platform of “three hills and five gardens”.