The Theory Research On The Category Of Handicraft Of ICH And Its Museum Ways Protection

Last century, as the mankind enriched acknowledge and made their cognition more and more deeply, the mankind made great efforts to protect their heritage. After the Second World War, there were lots of treaties and pacts passed to protect the heritage in the world, but those treaties and pacts fasten on physical heritage. In the past few decades, the economic was high up in the pictures, at the same time, human being were reviewing and considering their history, culture and ethos, a raised problem that how to protect national culture, to make ethos continuious, and to promote their nation's development. So a study about intangible was born, namely, the intangible heritage.For a long time, in our country, people fasten on physical cultural heritage, and didn't pay attention to ICH, folklorist and ethnologist had done some work on it, but for kinds of reasons, the information was badly destroyed. In recent years, Scholar pays attention to ICH, and research on it. The works on ICH not only statute but also research in our country drop behind Japan, France and Korea.To establish ICH protection system must base on research work, so the research work on ICH is necessary. Through the research work, many theory problems can be clarified, and may afford theory guidance for practice.The thesis chooses the Yangjiabu wood engraving picture as a study case, through fieldwork, theory study and contact practice, studies the Yangjiabu wood engraving picture from three points of view, namely, art, technology and heritage. The study tries to build up system info, at the same time, tries to find out a way to protect this kind of ICH in museum.There are five parts in the thesis.Chapter I , introduction. In this chapter the academic significance of the subject, the review of former study and current situation, research process and methods are discussed. The study on ICH was very late, in the past few decades of last century; scholars began to pay attention to it. Now its concept, connotation and characteristic still are discussed. So it has important academic significance to strengthen basic research, not only in theory, but also in practice. The studies choose the Yangjiabu wood engraving picture as a case, make fieldwork and relate information for further study to discuss the theory of ICH.Chapter II: The fieldwork and interpretation on Yangjiabu wood engraving picture. Firstly, collect all information about Yangjiabu village and Yangjiabu wood engraving picture, and make the information as the base to discuss the artistic feature in aesthetics. Through reading the contents we interpret Yangjiabu wood engraving picture, including its functions, significance and philosophy and world view.Chapter III: theory research on the category of Handicraft of ICH. Based on field work, this chapter discusses about problems as follows: the situation of handicraft, the pass down ways of handicraft technique, the essence of the protection, and so on. Through the case study, the author put forward some ways and conditions to protect this kind of ICH. At the same time, there are game theories in the protection among government, scholars and people who are holding the technique.Chapter IV: The Role of museums in protecting the category of Handicraft in ICH. For a long time, the museum majors in protecting tangible cultural heritage, but the research of museum should catch up with the need of the time, not only tangible heritage but also intangible heritage needs museum to protect. With the development and progress of the times, there were many new types of museum occurred, ecological museum, digital museum and community museum are playing importance role in protecting ICH. Those new types of museums fill up a deficiency which traditional museum work in ICH. The Yangjiabu village sets up a system to protect Yangjiabu wood engraving picture, not only build museum, but also to do a good research.Chapter V Complementary exposition. In this chapter, some problems were discussed one more time. At the same time, some new considerations are given to protect handicraft technique in new century. The study on traditional handicraft techniques is a complete system, in actual work; we should not only pay attention to the relation between heritage and environment, but also take notice of the relation between different cultures. We would like to examine the problem from two points of view, one is macro, and the other is micro. There are lots of works to do in handicraft, firstly is fieldwork, secondly is to discuss the relation between heritage and environment, thirdly, theory research, because research is another form of protect.