The Transformation And Reuse Of Farming Cultural Symbols

In the absence of water pump in the early age, the traditional waterwheel makes arid area become an abundant downtown area. But with the development of irrigation and modern industry, the traditional irrigation tool in natural gradually annihilation in the vast history due to the environment destruction. With the continuous development of modern industrial technology, low carbon environmental protection theme also rapidly penetrated into people’s life. According to the changes of social orientation and human needs, the trend of industrial design is also gradually transition.I hope that this topic will be accomplished on the perspective of full understanding of traditional farming culture inheritance significance and on the basis of traditional waterwheel working principle, structure to discuss the cultural symbol, value, and the necessity of transformation and reuse, also the thinking behind of the culture; secondly deepen the existing concept design which combines both traditional and modern-- the product Waterwheel Washing Machine, trying to give its use of new functions to adapt to the new environment; finally introduced the notion of public facilities and give it the features such as practicability, interesting, excepting for only an ornamental type not only in order to record the trace of the farming culture, but also return the culture back to modern people’s life. The propose of doing this is to make people completely comprehensive traditional farming culture and national history, also the people’s distance will become closer to each other, not only can rise environmental protection consciousness, but also having the effect of reducing carbon emissions.