| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺北藝術大學 === 傳統藝術研究所 === 98 === The traditional Taiwanese stone carving industry has been disappearing and gradually being replaced by the low cost labor and cheap materials from Mainland China. What is even more worrisome is that most of the stone-carving masters/technicians are aging; the wealth of the knowledge they possess is therefore approaching extinction. It really brings the awareness of how to continue passing on the traditional Taiwanese stone carving techniques and knowledge from the masters to the future generation. Therefore, it is vitally important to conduct a comprehensive study/research on the Taiwanese stone-carving technicians.
Based on the background aforementioned, I have selected Mr. SHIH Hong-Yi to be the focus of my study because he had over 30 years of experience and had witnessed the highs and lows of the stone-carving industry since postwar until the 1990s. Mr. SHIH was born in Tainan in 1942. When he was 15 years old, he accompanied his father, Mr. SHIH Tian-Fu, to San-Xia Zhu-Shi temple to learn the stone-carving techniques. Mr. SHIH Hong-Yi completed the learning when he was 17 years old. Soon after, the father and son started the stone-carving business together. They worked on the temples in the southern and central part of Taiwan for over 30 years. My study is based on Mr. SHIH Hong-Yi’s narrative version of the historical events and cross-referenced by relevant documents researched. I was able to construct Mr. SHIH biography which includes the historical/cultural background, his learning process of becoming a stone-carving technician, the style and inspiration of his works, the design and the specific locations of the preserved works, and dynamic among stone-carving technicians of the same team, and how individual project is being handled.
The topic about how the relations among the technicians may affect the quality of the final work is rarely explored; therefore it is one of the main interests of my study.Compared to technicians of other industry, the traditional stone-carving technicians especially value their team member composition and each member''s job assignment for any given project. Therefore, it became necessary to better understand how the technician team has developed and the interactions among the team members. Furthermore, by combining the results from the field studies and the aforementioned researches about technician teamwork, we are able to develop a system with strong historical references; thus a chronological cross-referencing and detailed analysis/discussions can take place.With a systematic approach, it becomes possible to understand the causes for the Taiwanese stone-carving industry to thrive or weaken, and then we can rebuild the Taiwanese stone-carving industry and return to its heyday.
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