| The Chinese traditional carpentry craft is the main process during the woodenmanufacture and the key skill which turns wood into the wooden articles. Thefollowing paper starts with the research on Chinese traditional carpentry craft, thenmake a systematic and comprehensive research on Chinese traditional carpentry craftwith the scientific concept and means of cognizing. It analyzes the matching principleamong the wood, wood craft and wooden articles for the purpose of reaching thesystematic cognition of traditional carpentry craft value and inspiring and guiding themanufacture of the modern wooden articles.This paper centers on the Material, Manufacture, Articles and Matching whichdiscusses on Selecting For Creation, Matching Comes First, probe into the relationamong the carpentry craft and wood, carpentry and wooden articles which involve inthe manufacture of wooden articles. This paper was developed around the wood,carpentry craft, wooden structure and the wooden articles to discuss the relationamong the Material, Manufacture and Articles. Taking the wooden furniture andwooden boat as the typical example in this paper, it recaptures the real life of ancientpeople. The wooden furniture represents the Still Structure on land; the wooden boatrepresents the Moving Structure in water. It shows that different matching principlewere adopte in different condition. We should apprehend the ancient craftsman withfull awareness that they match the material craft and structure in the rationalcognition and scientific method of thinking during the various development stages inthe different carpentry manufacture.The matching principle of the traditional wooden manufacture has the closerelation with selecting the materials, the wooden structure and the care of the woodenarticles, which brings into play all through the manufacture process. The ancientcraftsmen made the best use of the martial according to the situation; they madeadvantage of the craft and structure to make up the limits of the wood property. Thusit embodies the modern value possessed in the traditional carpentry craft, it is whatwe should inherit, innovate in and make use of. Marshaling the development clue of the traditional carpentry craft, theunsystematic cultural value can generate an emerging drive, which makes thesesvalue transfer into the modern design naturally. It will endow the design withoutstanding cultural characteristics, form my own design style and strengthen thecompetitive edge of the products in the world. |
