“Brokenness” and “Establishment”: Design and Innovation of Traditional Chinese Lanterns of Gannan Hakka's Area

Abstract

Gannan Hakka lanterns custom is of cultural profoundness and historical richness, featuring local colors in the type and style of traditional lanterns artifacts. The paper mainly takes the design of the traditional lanterns artifacts of Gannan Hakka as the research object, and points out the internal reasons after analyzing the “outmoded and marginal” design situation in the region under the double impact from market economy and social popular culture. Meanwhile, under the background of cultural “integration and innovation”, this paper aims to propose that innovative design is inseparable from current social culture and its function should be integrated into social life from the perspective of cultural concept and market demand by drawing on “brokenness and establishment” in Chinese traditional philosophy.