ABSTRACT
The crafts in the region can be influenced by the geographical conditions, the social structure, and the farming methods of the region. A particular way of life determines the specific products. The village of Mangyun belongs to the subtropical mountain basin and is suitable for sugarcane growth. About a few decades ago, the people in the Dai villages in Zhennan all used their sugar machines to make sugar. However, in recent years, many mechanical sugarhouses are mostly built in every region of the Zhennan sugarcane. Sugaring using the wooden gear can only be seen in the villages of Mengma, and only a few of the old men master this skill. Therefore, the development of the modern science and technology has changed our way of life. The new technology replaced the old technology, and the mass standardized and mechanized production replaced the original small batch and manual production. This is the main reason for the traditional craft dying. Second, owing to the lack of raw materials, some raw materials used in the traditional handicrafts are hard to find in our modern society. As the timbers for making traditional wooden sugar machine are the hard water teak woods of more than 50 years. For the Dai stockaded village where the deforestation behavior was prohibited since the ancient times, even in the
1 INTRODUCTION
The traditional crafts mentioned here are the development products of the human in the feudal era before the industrial revolution. This kind of skill is the survival root of the people. It is a production mode, which is adapted to the development of the social productive forces. Its characteristics of the times are particularly obvious.
