Huang Yongsong: Talking About Handicraft Art

Huang Yongsong, a famous publisher and designer in Taiwan

At this forum today, there are many old friends and many new friends. We will discuss this in terms of culture.

The culture of the Chinese nation is broad and profound, and it is a very important basis for us to face the development of mankind today.

Next, I would like to introduce two books, which were published in 1637, a methodology published by Descartes, founder of modern European Philosophy and rationalist troublemaker. This book is considered to be a manifesto of modern philosophy, and it has become the banner of rationalism epistemology.

This book has opened the glorious chapter of the world's modern science and technology revolution, and achieved the supporting progress of industrial mass production, which has made the western world seen today.

Another book is "Tian Gong Kai Wu" published by Song Ying Xing, Jiangxi, China. The 18 volume of the book systematically records the production technology and experience of China's agriculture and handicraft industry before the Ming Dynasty. However, after the publication of "Tiangong Kai Wu", it disappeared in Yongqing 30 years.

Later, in the early years of the civil society, a gentleman went to a Japanese scholar's home and discovered the work of heaven and industry. He learned from his Japanese friends that this book is very popular in Japan, and it has many Japanese, Chinese, German and Russian editions. It also has great influence on Japan, which has influenced the origin of industry and industrial revolution in Europe. Even Dahl has praised it as the great Encyclopedia of Oriental technology.

As a matter of fact, "Tiangong Kai" came to Japan early in the late seventeenth Century, and it was the basic book of Japanese production technology with the earliest handicraft technology literature, Kao Gong Ji, in our country.

Song Yingxing summed up his view of science and technology and the Oriental philosophy of science with the unity of heaven and man.

It emphasizes the coordination and coordination between the two, but emphasizes subjectivity in the process of opening things.

We must combine the two forces of manpower and nature to develop.

Ancient China has been trying to learn from the West for hundreds of years, but it seems to be more important to observe the deep cultural accumulation of the nation and get the nutrition of spirit and thought.

Today, when China is rapidly growing into a "world factory", "Tiangong Kai Ye" has passed through the space and time of nearly 400 years. The Oriental natural view and technology concept embodied in it should once again arouse our reflection and attention.

Now I would like to share with you three stories related to handicraft in my work.

The first story was in April 1976 when I published the album "oil paper umbrella" in Taipei, when there was an English version, and it was published worldwide.

A month later, an old beauty came to me and asked me to help him find the master Lin in the book, and to learn the oil paper umbrella with him.

When I gave him all the information, I was curious to ask him why you made oil paper umbrellas. He said I was sent by IBM. I said IBM was the biggest computer company at that time. Why did I send you to learn this? He said IBM attached great importance to handicrafts. He finished the handicraft in the United States, and now he went to the world to collect handicrafts from all over the world and all of mankind. Your book reveals the Chinese oil paper umbrella technology, so he wants to learn.

Then he said we had the conditions. I must be a master's degree related to this discipline. Second conditions, when I went to study this craft, I had to learn it and write it. He gave me two years of study. This is the situation of master Lin in making technology.

The second story is that I sorted out the Chinese knot in 1981. When I finished the Chinese knot, there was no name for unification.

The third story is in October 2002. I went to Guizhou to do batik research. I heard that there was an ancient batik making process, and I found a craft that could show me all over the place. What is this process? Everyone knows that batik is an orchid cloth. It uses wax as a burning agent. Wax is solid. After being changed, it can be drawn like a pen. Copper is used because copper can keep warm and liquid can be kept for a long time.

She pulled out a sickle from her waist, picked up a piece of bamboo on the ground, cut out a piece of bamboo as a bamboo knife, a toothpick in front of the bamboo knife, a stick like a popsicle in front of it, a little bit of it, and a section of a painting. The characteristic was that it didn't pull long lines, so the line was shorter, and in today's view, there was a clumsy beauty. We finally saw that this technology was very happy, because we could tell readers about the technology of bamboo knife and wooden wax that we could not see in the book.

This wax will not dye in the future when it is on the cloth. Why is there a light blue bottom? It will be a light blue pattern in the future.

This is their pattern. He can't pull it very fluently, but it can be a bit clumsy, but it's pretty good.

Finally, I want to buy one with her, I want to bring it back, and when I prepare to publish the book, there is a big exhibition. There is no batik cloth that has lost the ancient method. She said there was no problem. After buying it, the cloth she took was the old lady. When we got on the bus, we had to leave. The old woman was too humpbacked to come to me and she took the cloth away. She didn't sell it.

But then she came smiling and gave me this cloth. It was an apron.

As a result, I asked her great grandson why he didn't give it to me just now, and gave it to me now. He said she cut a piece along the apron and left it, saying it would not affect the pattern, and leave it to me.

I asked why, the old lady said something, and her great grandson plated to me, "I left my soul and gave you my body".

The above two books and three stories make me more aware of the importance of national handicraft.

Finally, let's talk about my purple sand hall. The purple sand is very interesting. A small piece of purple sand can make a purple sand pot. In a week or so, we are showing the purple sand exhibition at the women's Union Exhibition factory. The good purple sand pot is very expensive. The first one is artistic value, the second is the price of literati grade, the third process is very interesting.

How to make the purple sand pot, starting from the material, starting from filming mud began to take thousands of times, we northern people eat bread, knead the same, there are holes in the mud, scientists used a magnifying glass to check, found that there is a hole in the molecule, molecules and molecules with holes in the middle, is a double porosity, so from the insulation and aroma of reverberation to do.

Since the Second World War, 95% of the designs have been developed for the developed economies of Europe and the United States.

Design is an industry that helps users solve problems. It should not only increase market share for large enterprises. It should not only win the design awards for designers and design institutes, but how industrial design services for the majority of people around the world, so that the design really works, has become an important issue facing the design community.

Facing the rapid social changes, adhering to the humanized design concept is very critical.

In the Ming Dynasty, the thought of using the benefit of human beings has been formed. Song Yingxing, the author of "Tian Gong Kai Wu", emphasized that the daily life and daily use of people's livelihood are the first elements of this art.

People's daily life is implied in the "Tao". The way of human existence is to solve problems and to live well. The so-called "Tao" is what should be pursued by designers engaged in industrial design.