Chinese traditional architecture, as a carrier of Chinese culture, is to reflect the courtesy priorities and social orders of a patriarchal clan system in China, and as well as the longing and pursuits of it s people s dreams, which leads to a richness of lucky culture in Chinese traditional architecture.

Based on historical documents,this article summarizes the influence of the propitious culture on the ancient urban planning unifying the construction practice of the ancient urban planning,from praying lucky,avoiding evil both sides to commence analyseing urban location,urban layout,living forms,landscape planning and the application of color and so on.

The patterns on ceramics denote the auspicious culture.

It covers four major areas: symbolization of national auspicious culture and psy-chology,typical reflection of national polytheistic faith,promotion of loyalty,filial piety and friendship,hero worship,and records of folklore and change of the time.

Auspicious culture is the concentrated expression of an inner tendency of the public.

The paper tries to explore Chinese auspicious culture in graphic design in the view of the usage and transfer of the symbolic in Chinese auspicious culture.