Wisdom Of Emotion And Rationality In Chinese Traditional Design

Nowadays the hidden troubles of modern science and technology civilization have been surfacing gradually; local design gets in crisis because of the abnormal expansion of nationalism and the Chinese design becomes losing in the trend of the Chinese elements. All of these problems bring with the unprecedented challenges to the theoretical construction work of Design subject in China. Specific performances for these problems are:first, the method contacted with ideas and products is lack. Second, modern culture and traditional culture are disconnected. Third, relations between emotional and rational factors of design are disordered. To solve these problems the author hopes to make the "emotion" and "reason" as the breakthrough, tries to change the perspective of design theory research from individual to associated, and use the improved and associated "emotion-reason system" to break the existing limitations of the design discipline theoretical research. In addition, the study will use both advanced Chinese thought and Western philosophies together as guidance. After comparison and combination, the author hopes to explore the value of the Chinese way of thinking in the building of modern design theory. And then rescue people from the craze of national vanity to the correct and rational development way of design in Chinese characteristics.The main research work is to list and adjust the relationship between "emotion" and "reason" factors in order to meet the requirements of modern design on the basis of "emotion-reason system" which is full of Chinese characteristics. And let the "emotion-reason system" be a certain systematic and logical to provide valuable reference and guidance for the design activities. Research expands from five points:1.Thinking of "emotion and reason". After analyzing the existing research perspectives and methods, the author lays the theoretical foundation and keynote of "emotion-reason system" research, through thinking of the features of research subject, object and methods.2. Meaning of "emotion and reason". Through combing the origin, meaning, development and derivative of "emotion" and "reason", the author summarizes four relationships of "emotion" and "reason". They are internal-external, subject-object, form-content and positive-negative relations. This part initially built the basis framework of "emotion-reason system".3. Development of "emotion and reason". Take the evolution of desk class furniture as typical case to analyze the law of the "emotion and reason" relations’development. Establish ideal model that is "qi,cheng,zhuan,he" and "yuan,heng,li,zhen" in combination to descript the development law of "emotion and reason". And validate the model through the reflections on the constant and variable factors in design.4. Orders of "emotion and reason". Take the space furnishings design lesk class furniture (Ming and Qing garden study) as typical case to analyz tures of the "emotion and reason" relations’ space order. Establish ideal mo "isomorphic order" and "trans configuration order" are coexist to descript the spu order of "emotion and reason". And validate the model through the reflections on the universality particularity of design.5. System of "emotion and reason". This part accomplishes the "emotion-reason system" construction work. Summarize the structural characteristics and operating mechanism of the system. This system has a center with "people" and "products" two elements and a framework constituted by four types of relationships and two frames of reference of "emotion" and "reason". It has two different kinds of motivations:harmony and contradiction, two movement patterns:separation and combination, and motion characteristics of relative motion and dynamic balance.Design in fact is to coordinate emotion and reason’s relationship between the human and the product. In other words, Design will reflect the different characteristics of "emotion" and "reason" when the design activities are affected by the different "emotion" and "reason" when the subjects, objects, service targets and the environment of design changed. The purpose of the paper is that to form a universal adaptation mechanism which can help designers to find the possibility of expanding and deepening the characteristics of "emotion" and "reason" of products in the complex multidimensional relations, through applying the "emotion-reason system". Finally it is hoped that this research can let the designs meet needs of the human and do the services for the society effectively.Innovation points of this paper are:1. Research method. Research of the desk class is rare in traditional furniture study. This paper restores the desk class furniture both back into the specific space and time to analyze the development law and space order of "emotion" and "reason" in design.2. Research perspective. This research mainly takes Chinese culture as basis and advanced Western thought as a reference and supplement, trying to apply the way of combination of Chinese and Western culture. This method reflects the advantages of using "emotion" and "reason" to integrate the impact factors in design.3. Summarize up four relationships of "emotion" and "reason". They are internal-external, subject-object, form-content and positive-negative relations. These four relationships provide new ideas for the scientific methodology’s formation of "emotion-reason system" and make the system logical and feasibility. Fourth, Summed up three wisdom about "emotion" and "reason" of Chinese design.