In Twentieth Century 30 China Traditional Handicraft Initial Impression

In this paper, the Exhibition held in Nanjing in May 20,1937.The national handicrafts as the breakthrough point, combing through exhibits trying to glimpse the twentieth Century 30’s until the eve of the war this time of traditional arts and crafts Chinese social survival development. The national arts and crafts exhibition is held in national nature China occurred in the Anti Japanese War before the outbreak of the exhibition (held in 1910 before the Nanyang Kangyo will as well as the 1929 West Lake Expo), even in the special historical period, but still in the national scope has a certain scale and influence, mainly in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Shanghai 35 places product assembly, collected 23484 exhibits, involves taking classes, drinking category, pottery, wood category, manual machine class, art class, smelting, chemical class, other classes of 10 species.This paper discusses from the traditional crafts and arts and crafts angle. Traditional handicraft workers involved in the production of social practice activities, by hand and using tools, by means of a certain way, to change the material received from nature in the form, giving it new life and function, for the use of people’s social life, production practice. It is closely related to the lives of ordinary people, a reflection of the development of production of whole society, arts and crafts is a traditional handicraft art tendency is that part of the product, the two mutual association. The article is divided into the national arts and crafts exhibition and in twentieth Century 30 Chinese traditional crafts of 2 parts. The first part of the exhibition regulations, personnel, funds, facilities layout and display of the national arts and crafts exhibition will be clear; the second chapter in the first part of the exhibition of the exhibits at the further discussion on the traditional handicraft, divided into manual textile, food preparation, handmade pottery, weaving, handmade paper, metallurgy and construction arts and crafts 7 categories described, in each category separately from the traditional handicraft "materials, handicrafts, form" the 3 criteria are discussed.Research overview:Many scholars take great effort to study the Nanyang commodity exposition, exposition in West Lake, mostly for the Expo exhibits or is described, such as Jin Jianling, Zhang Momei’s "a hundred years ago the Nanyang Kangyo will", in the "Nanyang Kangyo will start and location", Xie Hui’s "West Lake Expo Overview"; or for the Expo, the significance of the social impact of the research done, such as:Ma Min "the first time the Nanyang Kangyo will review", Wang Chuanrui "the Nanyang Kangyo will cause and effect," Jess Zhang "during the period of the Republic of West Lake Expo", Ai Xianfeng "West Lake fair 1929 paper". Yang Shujuan of Nanjing Arts Institute in the 2011 Master’s thesis "Reaching to the Republic of China the three national exhibition of handicrafts", specifically talked about the national arts and crafts exhibition, by means of analysis and the exhibition of the exhibits on display to comb, and to a certain extent, discusses the status of the handicraft. In this paper some inspired by this thesis topic. From the existing literature, the scholars almost forgotten in the national arts and crafts exhibition on the eve of the Anti Japanese war.In this paper, by using the method of literature research, data analysis, the national arts and crafts exhibition from preparation to hold overall situation, display exhibits, and to explore the existence of that era of traditional arts and crafts. The main research contents for the 1937 national handicrafts exhibition exhibits and related matters.