Walked Into His World

The coming of the machined industrial era struck the traditional handicraft to a certain extent, besides, the handicraft has no qualified successors also caused by other factors, especially the way of inheritance, such as "family inheritance","imparting to male" way and so on. As a result, era changed, more and more craft skill is disappeared. But Xinhua village is an exception. The village belongs to Dali prefecture in Yunnan Province, you still find traditional handwork and the inheritance system of handicraft changed. On the basis of "family inheritance", other kinds of inheritance way emerged:"relative inheritance","inheritance between mast and apprentice","inheritance in a class" etc. With the development of the tourism in the Xinhua village, a large amount of people external apprentices of handicraft who belong to Bai, Han, Yi, Tibetan, Dai ethnic group and other ethnics, come to here, enter the ranks of handicraft apprentice. About these apprentices many things valued to study, when they appeared, how they integrated with local people, what attracts them so deeply that they don't want to leave, how they study handicraft in a strange place, how to survive after the end of learning and so on.This paper takes external apprentice group of handicraft as the object of study and presents a special way of handicraft inheritance and the living environment of this group. The writer provides typical examples and explanations under the framework of structure-function theory in order to analyze the apprentice's purpose,process of study and the integration with Bai ethnic group.The paper consists of three parts:Introduction,Primary part and Conclusion.Introduction contains the purpose and significance of the object, previous investigation research methods and so on.The Primary part is divided into three chapters.The first chapter Introduces geographical position, human environment,religion survey, customs and characteristic industry firstly, then recalls the history of handicraft in Xinhua village,at last,is the over view of handicraft in Xinhua Village after the rise of tourism.The research way of the second chapter is inviting apprentices and masters participate in the observation,questionnaire and interview to get the information of apprentice,such as the source,nationality,age,sex, number of apprentice.The purpose,the conditions,the ceremony,the relationship with the master,the process,the impact of the previous experience and where to go after learning.The third chapter is mainly ahout apprentiee, the writer introduced the living environment,the Way of communication with local people the attitude of the village and masters, and the recognition of their works in order to explore the mutual effeet between the apprentice and the native. The last part of the paper is conclusion. After the analysis of the existence of apprentice in Xinhua village above, the writer explored the influence of traditional social structure, how the apprentice adapt and build the social structure initiatively and finally the structure and initiative complement one another.