Study On The Scientific And Technological Inheritance Model Of Sericulture And Its Evolution In China

In traditional agricultural society the development of sericultural industry is the principle pervading all things throughtout thousands of years. In the occasion of social transformation, sericultural industry has still occupied an important position and is of great significance. Then, during this time, how is sericulture technology inherited from generation to generation? What are the specific inheritance models? How do these models develop? Are there any connections?This thesis mainly adopts the methods of historical research and survey research. It comprehensively applies historical research, archaeological research and relevant study results according to the study's characteristics in temporal, space and interdiscipline.According to thesis topic, the history and current status of sericultural production in China, field survey visits are conducted in Hangzhou, Suzhou, Nantong, Jincheng in Shanxi Province, Yuncheng Prefecture, Guizhou Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture and other places in investigation.This thesis is divided into two parts:study on the inheritance model of science and technology of sericulture in China and study on the evolution of the inheritance model of sericultural technology in China.In the study of the first part "inheritance model of science and technology of sericulture in China", the connotation of it is firstly teased out theoretically. And the five-dimensional such as:the instructor, the one who receives instruction, the inheritance contents, as well as models and purpose constituted it are also pointed out. It is based on this while combining the related materials that the six different models are inducted, including family heritage, urging sericulture as tradition, workshops and factories heritage, schools and education heritage, agriculture heritage and folk objects heritage. Next, according to the large amount of literature studies and materials collected on the inheritance models, demonstrations are carried out respectively and the characteristics of each model are stated from the view of five-dimension. At last, amendments are made on the inheritance models which are theoretical derivate from the demonstrated results and appropriate conclusions are drawn.In the second part of "the evolution of the inheritance model of sericultural technology in China", the inter-relationship between the six inheritance models are analyzed firstly and the period between mid-19th century to the 20th century is identified as the turning point of the evolution of inheritance models, which is precisely the period when our society started to transform from traditional agricultural society to modern industrial society. Accordingly, this part will be divided into two categories:traditional inheritance model and modern inheritance model. Secondly, the status and roles of sericulture industry in different stages of the society are studied respectively, as well as the roles sericulture technology played and the characteristics of sericulture technology in inheritance models. Finally, appropriate conclusions are drawn by comparisonTo sum up, the conclusions of this thesis are as follows:1) Heritance models of sericultural technology in China mainly involves "family heritance model", "urged sericulture as inheritance model", "workshops and factories heritance model", "school education heritance model", "agricultural extension heritance model" and "folk objects heritance model" and so on;2) During the period of mid-19th century to the first half of the 20th century, professional sericulture technology heritance institution—sericulture school began to appear, agricultural extension model of sericulture science and technology gradually replaced urged sericulture as inheritance model, family heritance model began to decline, and handicraft workshop technology inheritance began to transit into the workshop inheritance in the factory;3) The inheritance contents are gradually experiencing evolution from traditional experienced agriculture areas to the experimental areas. Meanwhile, sericulture technology heritage tends to be more professional, standardized and systematic;4) Economic performance gradually becomes the main purpose of sericulture industry, and then becomes one of the main purposes of sericulture science and technology inheritance;5) Changes in the science and technology inheritance content reflect the transformation of the relation between man and nature from the "man and nature are the one" to "suppress the days of labor material"; and evolution in sericulture technology mode reflects the changes in human thinking about sericulture problems from the general to specific;Focused on China sericulture science and technology heritance, science and technology inheritance mode, science education, and even traditional development of science and technology as well as introduction of modern technology will provide some value of reference for further researches.