| The wood engraving New Year picture of Zhuxian town, which has a history of 800 years, is that of the ancestor in China. Being one important part of Chinese traditional handicraft, it is the carrier of Chinese traditional culture spirit and aesthetic character. For thousands of years, by inheriting from masters to pupils or forefathers to offspring, generations of handicraftsmen in Zhuxian town passed on and developed not merely the skills at New Year picture but the specific Chinese historic tradition, humane thoughts and cultural character. The following essay mainly focuses on the great role that the two modes has played in passing on and developing Zhuxian town's wood engraving New Year picture together with the essential conditions for them to exist; the problems and challenges it is facing under conditions of modern economy; new thinking on the significance and value of traditional handicraft represented by Zhuxian town wood engraving picture in the process of modernization. The essay is displayed in five chapters: Chapter One: the introduction. Zhuxian town wood engraving New Year picture is an typical part of Chinese folk traditional culture. To inherit and develop it, great efforts are in demand. Chapter Two: the trail of changes in Zhuxian town wood engraving New Year picture. The swift rise of townspeople culture and the invention of engraving and printing in Song Dynasty laid a solid foundation for it, and soon after it enjoyed a golden age resulting from its beneficial location and prosperity in economy in Ming and Qing Dynasty. Consequently, it possessed a severe destruction during the Cultural Revolution, but eventually Zhuxian town wood engraving New Year picture survived and became more brilliant than ever. Chapter Three: the traditional passing on and inheriting modes of Zhuxian town New Year picture. Firstly, the mode of passing on from masters to pupils. Being reserved and closed, this relationship between masters and pupils has an element of feudalism and religion for it has adopted the way that traditional folk handicraft usually chooses, that is, passing on from one generation to the next without being written down. The instruction contains professional skills and moral in profession. Secondly, the mode of passing on from forefathers to offspring. The offspring have advantages over pupils for they begin to have a wide knowledge of the origin, celebrity and management mode of their workshops besides the skills at an early age. Thirdly, passing on from employees. They enjoy more freedom and transfer from one workshop to another. Chapter Four:essential conditions that the traditional passing on and inheriting ways need to exist. Firstly, it is the rusticity and regionality of rural society. Rusticity is the foundation of Chinese agricultural civilization and the chief psychology and conduct features of traditional peasants while the regionality adds local delicacy to economy and culture of Zhuxian town. Thus Zhuxian town wood engraving New Year picture was born and boomed. Secondly, the demand from Zhuxian town wood engraving New Year picture. The main feature of it is the close connection among varying management, sensitive eyesight and free skills in its promoting process. The production as a result is more than the production between material and technique, but the materialism of people's spiritual individuality. With labor management as a medium, traditional handicraft has become the natural connection of technique and art in the phase of manufacturing. Chapter Five: modern thinking on traditional passing on and inheriting mode. Firstly, the crises and threats it is encountering owing to the impact of modern productivity. Secondly, the special esteem by people for its unique human touch and local feature of the passing on and inheriting mode in the era of pursuing mechanical reason produce.Compared with the modern ways of western vocational technique education, Zhuxian town wood engraving New Year picture enjoys more essential and unique features of art.
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