Identity Construction and Cultural Identity Taking the Inheritor of intangible cultural heritage Inheritance of Handmade Porcelain in Jingdezhen as an Example

Abstract

Jingdezhen is a world-famous porcelain capital with a thousand-year history. It has a history of more than 2,000 years of pottery making, more than 1,000 years of official kiln history, and more than 600 years of royal kiln history. Craftsmen come from all over the world. Thousands of years of ancient kiln fire has given birth to a magnificent ceramic culture; in the blue sea The sails are set on the road, spreading the splendid Chinese civilization to all directions. “Thousands of years of brilliant ceramic development history have left countless valuable ceramic cultural and historical relics in Jingdezhen, which are the "root" and "soul" of Jingdezhen”.（wang lianhua，2022，p1）

According to archaeological discoveries, Jingdezhen has been producing porcelain since the Tang Dynasty at the latest. It developed rapidly during the Song and Yuan Dynasties, and became the country's porcelain production center during the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Jingdezhen's hand-made porcelain technology has been basically established in the Song Dynasty. The division of labor in the porcelain industry has become increasingly detailed and clear, and unique porcelain customs have been formed in the process of hand-made porcelain. This is also an important part of the history of Jingdezhen's porcelain making.

In 2006, two items, Jingdezhen's handmade porcelain skills and traditional porcelain kiln workshop building skills, were included in the first batch of national representative lists of intangible cultural heritages. Thus, the inheritance and protection of the intangible cultural heritage of Jingdezhen's traditional porcelain-making skills was officially launched. prelude. From 2006 to 2021, my country has successively announced five batches of national intangible cultural heritage lists.

In recent years, with the gradual advancement of the protection of intangible cultural heritage (referred to as "intangible cultural heritage"), traditional crafts, as an important part of "intangible cultural heritage", have increasingly become one of the important projects in the development of cultural industries in our country. As a porcelain capital for thousands of years, Jingdezhen has formed traditional craft "intangible cultural heritage" with distinct national and regional characteristics, theme creations derived from daily life, hand-made work with meticulous division of labor, cultural inheritance and other heritage attributes in the process of development. Its revitalization is not only a development It is an important part of Jingdezhen’s social economy and an important practical path for inheriting and developing my country’s “intangible cultural heritage”.

The protection of intangible cultural heritage in our country has been carried out for nearly 20 years, but the research on "intangible cultural heritage" still cannot stop. At the current macro level, we do not lack theories on the protection of intangible cultural heritage or cultural resources. But in the author’s opinion, we should now go deeper into the field, conduct close observation and analysis of the lives and practices of the real first-line intangible inheritors, conduct detailed research on this unique group of people, and understand what happened to them in each historical period. What inheritance and changes have gone through to make this research more comprehensive.

This article uses field investigation, literature review, and case analysis methods to conduct in-depth research on the intangible inheritors of handmade porcelain in Jingdezhen. The author went into the field and communicated face to face with the intangible inheritors of handmade porcelain. It combined with a variety of Instrumentation, including the latest multimedia technology, and at the same time cooperate with the most original oral research method to collect original data in an all-round way to provide the most complete data for research and provide a vivid picture of the inheritors of Jingdezhen's handmade porcelain "intangible cultural heritage"

The author approaches the two major research concepts of identity construction and cultural identity, takes the intangible inheritors of Jingdezhen handicrafts as the research object, and focuses on the historical development process of Jingdezhen handicraft porcelain, and the Jingdezhen handmade porcelain intangible heritage inheritance group under the dimension of identity construction. Analysis of the intangible cultural heritage inheritors of Jingdezhen handmade porcelain from the perspective of research and cultural identity.

From the perspective of cultural identity and identity construction, understand the past and present inheritors of the "intangible cultural heritage" of handicraft porcelain in my country, so as to better build the inheritance of "intangible cultural heritage" Explore development paths in many aspects such as human protection systems and training models. During the research, the author ensured the diversity of the research samples, including Population and Sample, integrated Key Informant, Casual Informant, and General Informant, collected, organized and studied the research data, and systematically sorted out the inheritance route, inheritance skills and achievements of the inheritors. Achievements and specific plans for future development. The article strives to present the original appearance of the intangible inheritors of Jingdezhen's handmade porcelain.

The Scope of Content-Analysis Unit includes industry celebrities, university teachers, and people from the scenic spot, etc., covering a number of research groups with different identities and industries, and the research subjects The content involved spans from the Tang Dynasty to the present day, with a wide time span. Looking at the past and describing the present, the perspective is lengthened and far away, and the important events covered in the timeline are presented in the article, in order to finally understand Jingdezhen. The true original appearance of handmade porcelain has been produced by inheritors of intangible cultural heritage along the way, and we strive to obtain the most authentic research results.

At the same time, the author will analyze the Benefits of Research brought by this research from four perspectives: Academic value, Cultural Value, Economic value, and Social benefits. The author hopes that this research can enable people like Jingdezhen intangible cultural heritage inheritors to benefit from it. The most authentic appearance emerges before the eyes of the world, allowing people to have a clearer and more impressive understanding of them, ensuring that traditional hand-made porcelain skills can realize the modern value transformation in today's society. The practices of such inheritors are widely representative and Learnability. Explore from multiple perspectives such as society, economy, culture, and ethnicity to promote the innovative inheritance and development of "intangible cultural heritage" and put forward relevant development suggestions for the inheritance of "intangible cultural heritage" in Jingdezhen.

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