On The Inheritance Modes And The Change Of Pottery Technology Of The Dai In Xishuangbanna

Pottery technology results from the constant interaction between the Dai people and the particular natural environment and embodies the technology characteristics of each stage in the history of human pottery development. To some degree, pottery technology inheritance represents the development process of the Dai science education. In addition, the pottery development reflects the Dai unique production and living ways and their changes. In this way, the studies on the Dai pottery technology inheritance and changes in Xishuangbanna are very helpful to have an overall idea to the Dai scientific and educational development and have a deeper understanding of the Dai culture and its change.Combined the present situation of the Dai pottery technology inheritance, the study chooses the village, factory, school and eco-museum in Xishuangbanna as the research subjects and employs various research ways such as paper studies, historic studies, field exploration and comparison and contrast studies.This study is mainly made up of two parts, the inheritance modes and changes of the pottery technology of the Dai in Xishuangbanna. It carries out the discussion from the following five aspects:(1) theoretically analyzing the inheritance mode structure of pottery technology, dividing the inheritance mode into various types;(2) sorting out the development history and current situation and generalizing the characteristics of various inheritance modes;(3) comparing and contrasting the relations;(4) analyzing the roles of pottery at each stage of society and the interdependent ecological environment and characteristics of inheritance modes;(5) analyzing the causes of the mode change from past society to the contemporary one and the implications of the change to scientific education. The following results are concluded from the studies:1.Based on the different inheritance fields, the inheritance modes can be divided into four types:family, factory, school and eco-museum.2.The family inheritance mode was the main way in the ancient society,which happened naturally and was characteristic of oral imparting with physical instruction and teaching by example. Recently the family traditional pottery has became manufacturing under the productive protection.Factory inheritance mode developed from the professional pottery manufacturing workshop in the1950s. It emphasized learning by doing and paid attention to the communication. The technology inheritance enjoyed simple labor division, cooperation and corresponding industry rules. In the recent years, factories have been focusing on the creation of pottery technology. The schools usually helped to cultivate clay modeling design talents. The inheritance mode presented pluralism and specialization. Different levels of schools had their own priority in teaching content. The schools combined the classroom teaching and field practice which established another inheritance mode, together with TV, internet and some other modern communication media. Schools become the most important way to train clay modeling talents for the Dai in Xishuangbanna. Eco-museum inheritance mode is a traveling mode created by companies and villages whose essence is "ecological protection, active inheritance". This inheritance did play some role with the help of local tourist industry. However, the role is limited.3.In the1950s appeared the factory inheritance mode. In the1980s the family mode began to decline. At the beginning of the21st century the school and factory modes began to dominate. Eco-museum mode has developed in recent years. Now the inheritance modes present pluralism.4.The inheritance mode change has been closely related to the culture entironment change. The change has the following characteristics:from the family inheritance to specialized agency inheritance; from the handicraft based on the experience from life and production to the modern technology which is more scientific and more mechanical; from the whole and natural inheritance to the specific labor division and specialization; from self-sufficiency to the commodity economy; more importantly from the traditional mode relying on the instinct experience and integral thinking to the modern mode relying on logical analyses and subject-object dichotomy thinking.5.The concentrated reflection of the change is from the integral thinking to analyzing thinking. The impact on people differs from one thinking way to another. In our scientific education, we should emphasize on both the traditional integral thinking and modern analyzing thinking and combine them together, which is an inevitable choice in the pursuit of the harmonious development of one's mind and body.This paper, based on the field exploration, makes an overall sort-out and analysis of the pottery technology mode of the Dai in Xishuangbanna, which enriches the research achievements in the pottery field. The paper conducts the studies in the detailed social and cultural background. It is from the perspective of scientific and technological education that the inheritance modes and changes are discussed, which gives this paper a new concept.