The Manufacture Craft And The Modern Design Creation Idea Of The Traditional Silverware Of The Xinhua Village In Heqing Prefecture

The silverware manufacture craft of the Xinhua Village in Dali Prefecture is one of the important parts of the silverware arts in Yunnan Province. Though it is not proper to name it the most exquisite one, it is the most convincing representative of the silverware crafts in Yunnan so as to be worth of special study, not only for its conservation integrity of handmade silverware crafts, but also for its unique existence as a village of folk handmade crafts on a comparatively big scale as well as its typification of art techniques and interests. The thesis analyzes and emphasizes the close relationship between the handcrafts and its original cultural environment from the historical perspective with a special focus on the unique arts and crafts of the silverware craft of the Xinhua Village, displaying the perfect mix of scientific and technological senses with art senses, exploring the combination of the silverware craft of the Xinhua Village with the modern design creation in both practices and in ways.Various indispensable regional factors have led to the origin, the existence and the development of each indigenous cultural which is impossible to merely exist in a material or non-material form. Beyond simply recording and depicting a traditional ethnic folk craft and based on the fieldwork in detail and in depth, this thesis focuses on study and analysis of silverware crafts in a macroscopical and open cultural background. People can feel the sincere warmth passed by craftsmen's handworks, observe the profound wisdom hidden in the delicate details, and appreciate the free and easy charm in the dedicated carving process, which is quite different from the indifferent one-face-for-a-thousand-people expression and mood of the mechanical production. As a special folk culture, the silverware craft of the Xinhua Village is unique for its mingled harmony of scientific sense and humanistic spirit. The craft analysis in the thesis just puts its emphasis on this point. Compared to the traditional folk arts, it is more meaningful that the new silverware craft of the Xinhua Village has absorbed some factors in the modern society both in depth and in width. The combination of its traditional folk silverware craft with the modern design creation idea is really worth of study. As a kind of art language, the introduction of the modern design creation idea to the traditional silverware craft has made it easy to understand for the modern people. At the same time, the mixed form has become the carrier and the media for their emotional and spiritual application. The silverware craft is the embodiment of both the beauty and a kind of folk arts. The handcraft culture has been vitalized in a dynamic successive developing process and in a harmonious relationship.