Tancheng Rotated Wooden Toys Research

Shandong Tancheng is the representative of the wooden toys producing area,the Fanyan village is famous for producing the unique wood toys across the country.As a kind of folk art, folk toys, rotated wooden toys have already waned. At the same time, with the rise of China’s toy industry as well as the return of the China national wind in recent years, contemporary rotated wooden toys is created unprecedented new conditions. Of course, both opportunities and challenges are occurring in the same time, the way of innovation of rotated wooden toys can open all the way, the key lies in wood toys add elements into the new era on the basis of keeping maintain essential characteristics, satisfying the aesthetic needs of the masses.The production of rotated wooden toys has both historical contingency and reasonable certainty. Yi River shore with lush vegetation provided material guarantee to rotated wooden toy production. Through generations of skillful craftsman hundreds of years of continuous innovation, spinning technology matures, appeared the representative of countless rich wood toys. Mastering its technology, aesthetics,function, principle of science and technology features can help us to understand comprehensive nature of the rotated wooden toys. These characteristics of ontology in both the characteristics of folk art have in common and also has the unique characteristic of rotated wooden toys, which is in the same line with China aesthetics feature. Time flies, these toys today not only has the cultural attribute, aesthetic appreciation but also functionality is no longer a single. Many toys contain great scientific principle, showing an ancient science and technology culture results, which deserve to pay more attention to them. Today, rotated wooden toys also met with tradition and modern, the choice of manual and mechanical problems, and the development situation is not optimistic. Therefore, we must combine the contemporary toy market and analyze the defects of rotated wooden toys, starting from their own advantages and referencing to other wooden toys, summarizing the feasibility of the future development trend of wood toys, and finally form design perspective arriving at the innovative development for rotated wooden toys.