Study On Karma Township In Changdu Prefecture Of Tibet Metal Handicraft

Living in the Tibetan plateau, in the struggle with nature the Tibetan has flourished among the thousands of years, creating a mysterious and unique spiritual and material!civilization. In the twentieth century, with the level of China’s national economy and industrialization even more rapid development, scientific and technological progress and cultural exchanges become more frequently, many traditional Tibetan area of culture and craftsmanship became precarious in the modern Changes. Garma Township is located in eastern Tibet Qamdo, near to Sichuan, Qinghai and Yunnan. It is surely the ground of the Sichuan-Tibet Highway and Yunnan-Tibet Highway, and it is also an important location for the "Tea Horse Road". The excellent geographical location factors, the region’s political, economic and so provide a basis for development. The study wield is Karma Township, and it’s about 120 kilometers away from Qamdo, it is known for arts and crafts village, where the metal craftsmanship heritage has been a century of history, with its sophisticated technology, the long tradition of art, rich cultural diversity characteristic features well-known in east Tibet.Taking field work as the main mode of research, through field visits and interviews, Karma township of metal craftsmanship of materials, tools, process and part of the finished metal objects for a more comprehensive collection, and more representative Township craftsmen interviewed for the study of the township’s metal craftsmanship provides a true, objective information.Firstly, from the natural and social environment in Tibet Qamdo start their geographical conditions, the economy, politics, religion, marriage customs and heritage craft methods, both factors outside the village of Karma metal craftsmanship to produce analysis and finishing; the other hand, metal objects from the perspective of their own, by studying its production required tools, materials, processes and types of metal objects, artifacts and decorative colors decorative patterns and other aspects of the order, so as to further understand the manual metal Garma Township the relationship between itself and the art of metal objects and Garma Township metal craftsmanship and produce changes and developments that occurred in the tradition of being. Finally, more research on Tibet Qamdo Garma village among metal craftsmanship embodied inclusive features, characteristics, and adaptability "modular" Characteristics summarize, attempts to explain the process of developing a long metal Karma Township craftsmanship inherent wisdom and value of traditional arts and crafts Tibetan areas protected to provide a reference, inheritance and development.