Status and Skills: Production Form and Changes of Pottery Handicraft Industry in Guanyao Town, Qichun County

Abstract

This paper mainly expounds the production form and changes of pottery handicraft industry in Guanyao Town, Qichun County. In the process of change, the production form has gradually formed the diversified production form in the hire-dominated era with historical characteristics, the planned production form in collective economy of "worker status" and the skill inheritance form of "inheritor of intangible cultural heritage" status. In order to promote the normal development of the production form of pottery handicraft industry, we must mobilize the production initiative of potters who master the core skills. In fact, in these production forms, the overall interests of potters and pottery handicraft production are consistent, that is, they objectively inherited the traditional skills, the fundamental purpose of which is to increase income and improve the quality of life. The case study of production forms shows that increasing the job income of potters through effective methods and achieving the social identity of potters plays a strategic role in promoting the production of pottery handicraft industry. The conclusion is that in the diachronic system, economic and technological level and other social environments, although potters are irreplaceable, the production form only conforms to the needs of potters and does not take into account other factors, meaning the pottery handicraft industry in Guanyao Town likewise faces the uncertain factors of development.