- Home
- Programs
- International CyberFair
- Participants
- Display Project Details
Lukang junior high school (2015 CyberFair Project ID 7886)
Taiwan,
Changhua County
Official Status:
Final Project: Ready for Judging
Teacher:
Category: 8. Local Music and Art Forms
We estimate 10 student(s) from 13 to 15 will work on this entry.
Description of Our Community: The proverb “Tainan as number one city, followed by Lukang and then Monga” indicated the importance of Lukang in the history of Taiwan's city development. Marine shipping between Lukang and Quanzhou started in Qianlong 49. Immigrants settled in Lugang and were engaged in trade. As the immigrant population gradually increased, more hometown culture and art were brought into this town by the immigrants; subsequently, the prosperity of economic activity led to the development of temple culture in this town. Quanzhou masters in succession came to Taiwan to build temples, and thus various size wooden products, sculpture, painting and other skills were also rapidly emerging. Japanese introduced "Inami carving" during the Japanese colonial period to teach Lukang masters to make furniture accessories “Room Bar" and exported them to Japan; at that time “Room Bar" production became a popular industry in Lukang; delicate and detailed carving also cultivated a lot of carving talents. Taiwan started to develop intensively toward the northern and southern metropolis in 1945. Since then the economic development in Lukang waned, but Lukang retained the traditional skills, especially in the production of wooden furniture. In addition to retaining the traditional tenon technique, the production of wooden furniture has more strict requirements on wood materials, techniques, and carving than the production of wooden furniture by machine for mass production of furniture. Hand-making is slow but they are good works and unique, and are worthy of collection.
Project Description: Furniture is daily necessity, which has a very close relationship with our lives. As we know, a sturdy fine wooden furniture can accompany us for a long time; however, people are unfamiliar with the wisdom of sophisticated manufacture procedure of the traditional wooden furniture and the art of this product. Nowadays, traditional arts division are gradually reduced. In Lukang many workshops were still engaged in traditional furniture production and design to retain the production techniques, actively to promote mentors to continue this traditional craft heritage and to expect breakthrough and innovation. In this case study, we collected information associated with the historical evolution of traditional furniture, manufacture procedure, tenon structure, decorative techniques and symbolic meaning, and visited arts division’s wooden furniture artistic creation, conducted several implementing and experience in order to have more understanding of traditional furniture. Besides, the web production also wants to let more people understand the traditional skills.