Study On Culture Of Traditional Architecture And Furniture Of Dong Nationality In Guangxi

The architecture of Dong nationality, one of the minorities of china, is great treasure of Chinese culture and splendid art of architecture in the world. In May 2006, the techniques of timber frame construction of Dong in Sanjiang Dong autonomous county was approved to be on the first National List of Intangible Cultural Heritage. As a carrier of its own culture, the architecture of Dong carries rich minority culture forward. Not only the folk technique of the construction amazed lots of people, but the artistry design, which a construction without any single nail even without a design also deserves infinite researching. However, without a written language, the civil art, which is passed down word by word through mouth, is fading away. So it is burning to be studied and protected.In this paper, on the basis of structural theory and under the studying background of the predecessors which related to the culture of Dong and their building culture, the author studied on the architecture of Dong nationality in three perspectives by deviding the architecture system into three parts—drum tower, wind-rain bridge and Ganlan civil dwellings. The origin, fucntion, building culture, building structure, building techique, building artistry of Dong architecture are classified in a systematic way. Finite element method calculation model and design geometry analysis are used to further study of the structure characteristic of Dong nationality . Modern design theory and tradition folk arts and crafts are organically combined together to verify the historic, scientific and artistic quality of folk arts and crafts.Since architecture is the parent suject of furniture, the development of furniture integrally roots in the architecture culture, so does the furniture of Dong . Influenced by the Huotang culture and geographical factors , the style' of Dong furniture is characterized by simple modeling and simple structure with few classfications. Most of them are attached to the buildings, and very few physical objects and even little information about them survive the history, so that the market of Dong furniture is not instereted to people, and research in this field is still left blank . To fill the blank and to probe into the traditional civil concept of Dong furniture culture, the author has collected pictures and historical data to go into the shape, material, structure and process ,and come up with new ideas of morden desing and the development of Dong furniture.Aiming to protect and carry on the national culture and to enlight the industrial design, this article is part of Guangxi Natural Science Fund Project < Study on Protection and Succession of Ethnic Villiges under New Rural Construction in Guangxi> ,and it is also part of the research of Dong Cultrue.