Traditional Farming Tools Of Ancient Yuxi Area City

The subject of this article is Traditional Farming Tools in Yuxi area.Traditional Farming Tools in Yuxi area is the product of their formation, development and evolvement over thousands of years in the long period of production and life experience of Yuxi people. In order to establish more systematical and integrated documents archives, the author is trying not only to do a fully systematical research of the exist Traditional Faming Tools in Yuxi area through the combination of campestral investigation and document review, but also to discuss the historical process of their invention, development and evolvement in the terms of geographical characteristic and humanistic environment, as well as to elaborate from the aspects of historical background of culture, types, function, main feature, producing technology. In this investigation, the author sorts 132 Traditional Faming Tools in Yuxi area into 15 types according to their function, and collects more than 3000 pieces of material pictures, about 1000 pieces of cultivation pictures, more than 1000 pieces of relating producing pictures, more than 1000 pieces of picture information obtained through scanning pictures,16 pieces of records of relating researchers, producers, and old and experienced peasants, as well as basic materials about 3 representative artists.Through the discussion and reflection about the invention, development, reformation, replaced reasons and results of Traditional Faming Tools in Yuxi area, starting with the humanistic perspective, such as sociology, anthropology, agriculture, and museum etc., but also exhibits the latest artistic style with the help of visual artistic form. Finally, it is helpful to seeking some valuable reference for contemporary culture transition, and to think about and fix position for the fresh entrance of experimental art in the new way.