| 英文摘要: |
Song Yingxing’s Tian Gong Kai Wu (Illustrated Description of Handicrafts and Industries) of 1637 was the first work to include a description and illustration of the so-called zhuoyu ji (jade carving machine). To date, more than ten editions in printed and manuscript form of the Tian Gong Kai Wu are extant. Differences exist in both the text and illustrations among these editions, which provide a large amount of technical information, but also give rise to difficulties concerning the study of jade carving crafts and texts during Song Yingxing’s time.
This article focuses on the text about jade carving and the Zhuoyu Tu (Illustration of jade carving) in several of the editions available, and divides the zhuoyu ji depicted in these illustrations into three types - frame type, integrated type and extended type. It provides a preliminary interpretation on six possibilities whether physical prototypes of the frame type and integrated type ever actually existed, and how they may relate to each other. |
