From the perspective of humanities,connotations of landscape culture and cultural landscape were elaborated,components,types and characteristics of both were compared.In terms of component,cultural landscape in narrow sense can be interpreted as the intangible component of landscape culture;in terms of type,all types of cultural landscapes have corresponding landscape cultures;in terms of characteristics,both of them are independent and inclusive with regionality,accumulation and inheritance of the old,but landscape culture is hysteretic and stable while cultural landscape is unstable.Essence correlation,development correlation,coexistence correlation and mutual-transformation between landscape culture and cultural landscape were demonstrated.Considering landscape culture and cultural landscape as a constantly-evolving open theory system,it was proposed that inconformity of them has been formed in the historic development and "human" factor has always been an essential element.Under certain circumstances,cultural landscape and landscape culture were able to transform mutually.
Landscape culture is a new science and a 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 between traditional cultural landscape and 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.
