Aesthetics Characteristic Of Chinese Ancient Ship

The ship is a transportation tool navigating by water. It is known to all that the ship has historic contribution to people's daily life, material exchange on the water and social economic development. Chinese ancient ships continued several thousands or approximately ten thousand years. So it has distinctive and fine quality historical cultural connotations. That is to say, it is a kind of cultural mark of some era. From the perspective of manufacture, it shows the wisdom of working people and is a comprehensive entity of science and technology, crafts, architecture, aesthetics and folk customs.The ship is the building navigating by water. As architecture is static music, ship is flowing one. Like the building on the land, the ship has different form, style and aesthetic feeling.From the perspective of technology, lots of different books expound some ships' shape and special feature of each period. Regrettably, they haven't explore the beauty sense of ships' shape. Even if some books expound some laws of form beauty, they haven't explored them comprehensively and deeply, especially the aesthetic characteristics of Chinese ancient ships. Since our ancestor has left the unparallel heritage, it is our responsibility to excavate, arrange and develop it.Though the ship is not work of art, excellent mould design can also create the beautiful image. From the perspective of the development of Chinese ancient ship, the ship's shape is determined by different area, useful aim, folk tradition customs, technique level and aesthetic concepts.Generally speaking, the ship's shape is determined by main factors like function, technology and aesthetic concepts. Chinese ancient ship has own dependence and creation that forms excellent traditional crafts and unique style.The ship's shape is divided by palace form, castle form and covering form. The first is usually a tool playing by aristocrat, like the dragon-boat of Sui Dynasty. The second is used to fight, like Dou naval vessel of Spring and Autumnand Warring period, Wu ya naval vessel of Sui Dynasty. The third is ordinary toolused by common people, like the black-covering boats of Shao xing, Zhe Jiang province. Furthermore, there are two kinds of distinctive mould ships. One is the ship which created by imitating animals, such as the dragon-boats, phoenix-boats and centipede boats etc.As a plastic art, the ship has own unique aesthetic creation law, controlled by mould idea that is determined by nationalities, area, historic cultural tradition, philosophy thought, folk customs, life and production, sentiment and temperament, aesthetic concept.From the perspective of the ship's shape, this thesis expounds form aesthetic style reflected by ancient ships. And from the perspective of aesthetics, it explores the sense of beauty of sails that are the ship's driving force.The ship's decoration culture makes the ship own artistic outward appearance and manufacture of thought connotations. And it is an important component of Chinese ancient ship art. The thesis analyses and researches the ship's decoration culture according to colorful paintings, carving art, ship's flags and customs etc.During the research, this thesis expounds the material objectively, comprehensively and deeply. It brings a good base to expound the ship's aesthetics more concretely and deeply. It will help understanding history, custom, art of Chinese ancient ship.