The Research On Application Of Zhuangzi's Philosophy In Product Design

The traditional culture of China is of great value. People have gradually realized the significance of the reality of traditional culture and have taken of use it in production and daily life. Zhuangzi, the Representative of Taoist, is a famous thinker, philosopher and writer in history of China. Zhuangzi's philosophy has a deep influence in the traditional culture of China. Zhuangzi's philosophy is not only the method which can be used to solve a specific problem but also the highlights of general law. It has a certain guiding significance for the present and future. This paper focuses on the research of the application of Zhuangzi's philosophy in product design and summarizes the patterns of the application.The first part of this paper describes Zhuangzi's life, personality and philosophy to summarize the formation conditions of Zhuangzi's philosophy, makes Zhuangzi's philosophy be compared with Laozi's philosophy and explains the reason why chooses Zhuangzi's philosophy as the target of research and the possibility of the application. The second part to the fifth part of the paper is the main parts in which the application of Zhuangzi's philosophy in product design is studied specifically. The second part focuses on the analysis of the way in which Zhuangzi expressed his philosophy and the definition, features and role of the way and then studies the relationship between metaphor of product design and it. The third part analyses the story of"Paoding decomposed the cow", summarizes the attitude of Zhuangzi to the relationship between technology, art and design and makes us review the relationship between technology, art and design in modern times. The fourth part analyses the story of"Huishi and the big hyacinth", summarizes the philosophy by which Zhuangzi changed"the useless"to"the useful"and combine this philosophy with modern product design together to express the definition, content and principle of the"modify creativity". The fifth part expresses and analyzes the philosophy of"law from the nature", summarizes the attitude of Zhuangzi to the relationship between human beings, objects and the nature and looks ahead the trends of product design in the future. The sixth part provides the practices of product design and expresses the understanding of the application of philosophy used in modern product design activities.In the last part of this paper, I sincerely hope that this paper would be taken into account by our product designers and they would take use of the traditional culture of China to make some contributions to the design of China.