| Dai nationality, which has long historical culture and artistic background, is the most minorities with unique charm among the Chinese minority. During the past thousands decades, Dai traditional life appliance is influenced by the occlusive living environment and cultural environment. What the artistic form presentation of it is unmatched, full of strong minority characteristics and the unique aesthetic value. Consequently, studying the Dai traditional life appliance has the profound research significance.The abundant rich and colorful life of Dai people created uncountable Dai traditional life appliances. During the modernization and industrialization development, Dai traditional life appliance is encountering the unprecedented challenge.In this paper, by taking Dai traditional life appliance as the research objective and make sure the range of it. This paper pay the investigation attention on material, process and modeling aspect of research objective and then the making the systemic analysis according to the arrange and combination with the differentiation background. The main idea of this paper is studying artistic form of Dai traditional life appliance and making generalization, careful study and investigation on many aspects. A detailed introduction is also used in this paper for life appliance process with kinds of different material. The main contribution of this paper is doing the analysis and study for Dai traditional life appliance, which include the cultural characteristic, how to choose material characteristic, process characteristic, modeling characteristic and aesthetic characteristics aspects, etc. Using the method, i.e., to go from the easy to the difficult and complicated, generalization and summarization, to make a systematic exposition of Dai traditional life appliance. Finally, the enlightenment and influence of Dai traditional life appliance for modern design are proposed and then deeply into culture discuss how to for long preserve the Dai traditional life appliance with alive way.The role of traditional life appliances in Dai people daily life are gradually replaced by the industrialization products. The original intention of this paper is to investigate the Dai traditional life appliance, which is existing and still can be studied, from its material, process and morphology aspect etc. Summarize the design idea and pattern and then preserve the Dai traditional life appliance with another totally new form, which is going to vanish. The totally new form preservation of Dai traditional life appliance is not only featuring the form indiscriminately but also standing on the culture foundation. After that, keeping the Dai culture element through a brand-new design and reserved. According to the study of Dai traditional life appliance in this paper, we hope the idea, thoughts and protection measures about traditional ethnic culture can be proposed and promote the propaganda and development for minority folk craft. Traditional national culture can shine brightly on the historical stage via the study of this paper. |