【亚洲•中国】中国编梁木拱桥营造技艺 Traditional design and practices for building Chinese wooden arch bridges（2009年）

【项目简介】

 Project brief introduction

中国编梁木拱桥营造技艺

中国编梁木拱桥营造技艺是采用原木材料，使用传统木建筑工具及手工技法，运用“编梁”等核心技术，以榫卯连接并构筑成极其稳固的拱架桥梁技艺体系。木拱桥的建造工作由一名木匠师傅指挥，其他木匠操作来完成。木匠的建造工艺按照严格的程序，通过师傅对学徒的口传心授或是作为家族手艺而代代相传。这些家族在木拱桥的修造、维护和保护方面发挥着不可替代的作用。作为传统工艺的载体，木拱桥既是传播工具，也是传播场所。它们是当地居民重要的聚集场所，人们在木拱桥上交流信息、开展娱乐活动、举行祭拜仪式，从而加深了感情，凸显了文化特征。近年来，城市化进程加快、木材稀缺、可用建筑空间不足等因素威胁到了木拱桥工艺的传承与存活，使这一传统技艺有所流失。

Construction Techniques of Wooden Arch Bridge with Braided Beams in China

The construction technology of Chinese woven beam wooden arch bridge is to use raw wood materials, traditional wooden building tools and manual techniques, and use core technologies such as "woven beam" to connect mortise and tenon to construct a very stable arch bridge technology system. The construction of the wooden arch bridge is directed by a carpenter and performed by other carpenters. Carpenters'construction techniques are handed down from generation to generation through oral instruction by their masters to their apprentices or as family crafts according to strict procedures. These families play an irreplaceable role in the repair, maintenance and protection of wooden arch bridges. As the carrier of traditional technology, wooden arch bridge is not only a dissemination tool, but also a dissemination place. They are important gathering places for local residents. People exchange information, carry out recreational activities and hold worship ceremonies on wooden arch bridges, which deepen their feelings and highlight their cultural characteristics. In recent years, the acceleration of urbanization, the scarcity of timber, the lack of available building space and other factors have threatened the inheritance and survival of wood arch bridge technology, making this traditional technology lost.

【批准时间】2009年10月

 Approval date，October2009