1、 - 1 - The Enlightenment of Traditional Chinese Ideologies on Modern Industrial Design Abstract: The 21st century is a century of design. Industrial design has entered peoples daily life as an effective method of planning more reasonable conduct of life for people, which plays a very important role
2、in coping with the relationship between humans, society and environment. Traditional Chinese ideology has a profound influence on Chinas antique utensils and architecture. Meanwhile, it has provided sources of ideas for modern industrial design. It integrated many traditional ideologies of creation
3、art including mental concepts, value systems, standards of conduct and ethnic styles and features together with the design concepts, modes of thinking and social fads, with which to take the form of a set of design ideas which is possessed of native ethnic cultural characteristics based on elegance
4、creation art; industrial design - 2 - Traditional Chinese cultural ideology has always been blending, spreading and developing in the long-term social practice of the Chinese and the summarization and refining process of all previous Chinese thinkers and it has already become the basic spirit that s
5、tands proudly in the family of nations. Such Chinese ideologies of creation art as “man is an integral part of nature” and “utensils are meant to convey truth” have provided referential and inheritable spiritual treasury for modern design. Chinas industrial design should keep on innovating while mai
6、ntaining cultural continuity thereby meeting the spiritual round canopies symbolize heaven; spokes symbolize thirty days in each month; bow-shaped timber frames symbolize the lunar mansions of the sidereal revolution.” The shapes of canopies and carriages were compared to “heaven is round and earth is square”, the thirty spokes which symbolized thirty days in each month stood for the alternating movement of the sun and the moon, and twenty-eight bow-shaped timber frames symbolized the lunar m
