| Bamboo Handicrafts is one of important parts of Chinese historical culture, and the cultural connotation and personal characteristic contained in Bamboo Handicrafts are the spiritual symbol of Chinese Nation. Bamboo Handicrafts plays an important role in people's daily lives; it enriches Chinese culture and becomes one of bright cultural sceneries of Chinese Nation. In a certain way, the culture of traditional Bamboo Handicrafts is one of representatives of Chinese civilization. It has theoretical and practical significance to expand the culture of traditional Bamboo Handicrafts, let it regain the deserved cultural status, and offer help for developing and using the cultural resource of Bamboo Handicrafts in nowadays when the industrialization develops rapidly.Using the concept as a starting point, the author analyzes characteristics of the culture of Bamboo Handicrafts and sketches the development of it. The culture of Bamboo Handicrafts is combination of material and spiritual wealth which formed during the course of people's using, upholding and arting up bamboo over a long period of time; it is a typical representative of folk culture and regional culture; it is a perfect combination of bamboo's utilization and aesthetics. As a resource of historical culture, the culture of Bamboo Handicrafts goes a long time:it began before the Qin Dynasty, developed during the dynasties of Han, Tang and Song, and improved within Ming Dynasty and Qing Dynasty, when the handicrafts varied and skills advanced.In the culture of Bamboo Handicrafts, utensils, skills and handicrafts are material, scientific and technological base, which is the focal point of this treatise. Difference of lives made utensils of Bamboo Handicrafts variety, including bamboo weaving, carving and building. Bamboo weaving can be divided into two classes:implements of life and production, which differ from each other. Bamboo carving includes utensils of study and ornament of room, which is also a major class in Bamboo Handicrafts. Besides, bamboo paper is a distinguishing kind of handicraft. Inheriting and developing skills of bamboo weaving, carving and paper-making can help to improve the level of manufacturing engineering in China.Another focal point of this treatise is to reveal the essence of culture of Bamboo Handicrafts and expound its internal as well as external value. Folk culture related with chant in bamboo literature and symbols in the using bamboo musical instruments contains rich connotation of the culture of Bamboo Handicrafts. At beginning, people used bamboo with joys, and then they loved its natural instincts which cannot be changed by environment, finally, they personified and distilled the images of bamboo, during the whole course, the humanity embodied in bamboo is accumulated and enriched, which reflects disposition, ethics, and folk custom distinctly. The value lying in the culture of Bamboo Handicrafts is incarnated mainly in the fields of economy, science, technology, education and history. The intangible cultural resources have become important historical and cultural heritage, which is the linchpin of exploiting and utilizing culture of Bamboo handicrafts.Substance of exploiting and utilizing culture of Bamboo handicrafts is to capitalize and industrialize cultural resources, and make the value be obtained again. The last part of this treatise analyses present conditions and existing defects while exploiting and utilizing culture of Bamboo handicrafts in China, and put forward proposals on exploiting and industrializing culture of Bamboo handicrafts. |
