Inheriting and developing of Chinese traditional lighting culture

The history of Chinese tamp is centuries-old and the culture of Chinese lighting is resplendent. On one hand the prehistoric saga, ancient fairy tales and the illustration of Chinese characters revealed how the ancient Chinese used the lamp and understood the lighting. One the other hand all kinds of history books and literatures recording numerous cases about lamp and lighting represented the dynamic lighting culture development which has lasted for several thousand years. From the scope of civilization, this paper searches and discusses the origin, the core content, the ideas and meanings, the culture system, the form characters and the technique about Chinese traditional lamp and lighting, and finally finds out something which will be helpful to lighting design in our day.
light culture tradition lighting
Ma Jian Hu Hua Mao Furong Zhang Mingyu Zhang Yufang
School of Architecture, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072
国际会议
26th Session of the CIE(国际照明委员会(CIE)第26届大会)
北京
英文
965-968
2007-07-04(万方平台首次上网日期,不代表论文的发表时间)