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Cultural Inheritance and Innovative Development of Hakka Stone Crafts: Taking Tombstones for Example

National United University / INSTITUTE OF HAKKA LANGUAGE & COMMUNICATION / Author:HSIEH,CHENG-AN

“Cultural Inheritance and Innovative Development of Hakka Craftsmanship: Taking Tombstones as an Example” is a documentary about the life experiences of three traditional and modern tombstone masters. Through the protagonist's narrative method, he looks at his own life culture and life expectancy from the perspective of the parties, and describes the struggle of traditional craftsmanship from prosperity to decline, and attempts to innovate and transform.

Growing up in Tongluo Old Street, I lived next to the Tombstone Dashi shop run by Qiu Yunzhao. After contacting the documentary, I felt the urgency of converting the oral history of the Tombstone Dashi culture into video records, so I decided to change the tradition. The tombstone craftsmanship culture and innovation development are preserved through the recording of the film. Traditional crafts are faced with the problem that no one in the future must transform and innovate. The lost traditional techniques and characters will not reappear. Now that the technological products are easily available, we must promptly make audio-visual records of the withering Hakka traditional crafts in order to preserve the tradition. Skills, this model is worthy of immediate action.