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In The Process Of The Industrialization Of Jianchuan Bai Wood Carving Craft Product Research

Posted on:2013-08-05Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:J AiFull Text:PDF
GTID:2245330374959647Subject:National culture industry
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The basic shape and overall style of Bai People’s Wood carving in Jianchuan County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan, had formated after the Han and Tang Dynasties, It has been completely preserved over the centuries through the strict form of succession by mentoring teaching and family teaching. Thousands of years has followed Bai traditional cultural values and national aesthetic style, as a symbol of national culture, Jianchuan Bai wood products form a series of shape, design, craft and relatively stable cultural implication, which condensate the traditional culture of the Bai People. By the end of the20th century and the beginning of the21st century, with globalization and market economy, development of culture and tourism industry, in the economic and cultural exchange and fusion, under the influence of the market economy and modern ways of production, the products type, form, mode production, skills, and a relatively stable cultural significance of Jianchuan Bai woodcarving have changed a lot in the modern construction of the national culture.Modern cultural context of the national culture is the important factor, which leads to the changes of Jianchuan Bai wood carving in its type, form, techniques, patterns, meaning and production methods. Since the1980s, the reconstruction of local houses, public cultural facilities, tourism have become the important industries of the Dali area, the consumption of foreign culture is rapidly expanding; In the early21st century, the country promote the development of cultural industries, folk crafts industry in Yunnan Province become an important categories of cultural industry. In the expanding process of cultural exchange space, Jianchuan woodcarving learn from the concept of the coastal and inland production, introduct the mode of large-scale production, change the simple traditional craftsmanship.In this complex multi-cultural context, the range and sorts of Jianchuan woodcarving product have rapidly increased, except the accessories of traditional Bai buildings and the production of Bai daily necessities in the market, more products appear:e.g. furniture decorations, appliances of the daily life, ornaments and etc., which cater to the modern urbanaesthetic; handicrafts and souvenirs for tourists and the tourism market also large wood products, which are on behalf of the local culture and serve the cultural exchanges between governments. Meanwhile, the reference of some African carvings and woodcut art, the present style of Jianchuan wood is different from the traditional’s, is also different from the woodcarving products of Zhejiang, Fujian and Jiangsu. It not only enriches the market of Jianchuancarvings’,but also means reconstruction of the Jianchuancarvings in its inheritance and development. The continuous increasing of the product’s range and sorts bring the trend of diversified development of the form of Jianchuan woodcarving products, relatively stable patterns and shapes also changed. Theinflow of foreign cultural symbols, continuous dissolute the level of national cultural implication of the wood products. Modern mechanical, production is bringing large-scale replication and craftsmanship is weakening, those highlight the economic attributes of traditional woodcarving, lead to the homogenization of the product, dispell the national character of the Jianchuan woodcarving, traditional the Jianchuan Bai wood carving products show out the trend of the transition to the mass cultural products.This Article is on the basis of research, by using comparative and inductive method, analysis and discuss Jianchuan Bai wood carving, which is now in the industrialization process. By using of the theories and knowledges of the cultural industries, ethnology, folk art and etc. this article systematicly analysis and interpretate the changes of the Jianchuan Bai wood products, which happen in the context of modern consumer society. It is expected, that the cases resesrch and analysis of Jianchuan wood carving products in the industrialization process, bring about the thinking of the status and trend of the national culture’s development and the protection of traditional national craft heritage.
Keywords/Search Tags:JianChuan Wood carving, Folk arts and crafts, Industrialization
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