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Abstrate The wood carving in the traditional temples has long history, but there is less and less people know how to appreciate it during the time passing through. “Competition” is a characteristic construction style in the traditional temples. It means dividing one building into 2 ~ 4 sides from middle line that can be left and right sides or even front and back sides. Then the building is built by 2~4 groups of masters separately. That can be one kind of technique or all decoration techniques. Because the works from all the groups will decorate in the same temple, each group will try to make the best pieces or even out of the traditional frame and create some creative works. The study of those special things is few been mentioned.
This thesis focuses on the wooden construction and cravings in the existed 23 wooden competition temples. Document by photo images and generalize all the information files then study its development and the time background by documents study. It generalizes the working mode and relation of cooperation by comparing the style of wooden construction and the subjects of wood cravings. Then study the picture of wooden cravings, meanings and symbolization to understand the worker’s “competition intention” and” art of competition”.
The result of this study is that the working mode of wooden construction is not just dividing the temple into left-right and front-back sides by middle line. There are some other mode existed which can be identified by the wood cravings in the temple. By studying the picture of wood craving, wish this thesis can bring the different views of appreciating the traditional buildings and re-understanding the culture meanings in the “competition temples” .
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