神话与宗教是原始的哲学和宇宙观,理想景观是其中一个重要组成部分。根据文化圈的不同,世界神话与宗教可划分为三种地域类型:中国式、希腊式和希伯莱式。它们各有其不同的理想景观类型。理想景观是人们对于环境的选择和改造,它的形成受自然环境和文化的双重作用,其中自然环境的作用是潜在的、基础性的,而文化的作用是直接的和本质性的。不同的文化通过神话和宗教中的理想景观类型来表达自己的景观理想,又依据这些理想,通过地理回归在现实中使其物化,实现对地理环境的影响。

Mythology and religion are the primitive philosophy and attitudes about the universe, they reflected people's pursue to ideality,and the ideal landscape constitute an important part. Based on the cultural differences, mythology and religion can be divided into three regional types, namely, Chinese, Greek and Hebrew, each one is unique,and so are the ideal landscapes. The thesis explores the types of pattern and structural features of the ideal landscapes of mythology and religious legend. It analyses the profound cultural connotation of the ideal landscapes in different cultural background, indicating that the formation of the ideal landscape originates from the early ecological experience and cultural adaptation of different nationalities, the essential of the ideal landscapes is people's feeling about surroundings,the propriety living space are imagined to be a ideal landscape by strengthen the good side and enhance the lake one. An ideal landscape means a choice and reform of the environments man inhabits. And it is usually influenced by both the natural environment and culture, and the function of the natural environment is hidden and essentials and the function of culture are direct and instinctive. Different cultures express their ideals in landscapes according to the ideal landscape types in culture and religion, and furthermore, based on these ideals, they pose their influences through geographical return and materialization in the reality. By choosing the position,making the symbol of the ideal landscapes and so on, the geographical return of the ideal landscape can be realized. The thesis also discussing the geographical return's immediate significance.