物質文化的展示觀

The Exhibition View of Material Culture

近年來，本土文化意識已逐漸抬頭，例如原住民文化、客家文化、閩南文化等都受到重視，鄉土教材紛紛列入國中、國小的課程標準中。人們意識到在往現代化的同時，自己的根本也不應遺忘。若將時間回溯到光復前後，空間規範於台灣本地，對象設定於閩南族群，在當時電力不甚普遍、物資不甚充裕的時代，人們生活中的食、衣、住、行、育、樂是如何進行的呢？有關於士、農、工、商等各行各業所使用的機具及機械跟現在相比有什麼不同呢？事實上，這些多半以手工操作的機具，其所應用的科學原理，伴隨有長久以來的巧思與智慧。

It is common to see, in the exhibitions of ancient artifacts related to living technology that the artifacts are taken away from the original ambience and displayed in a linear-static way, hence their connections with the social culture are always neglected. In the study of material culture, the idea of exploring the interaction between material and human behavior as well as the cultural significance behind the artifacts is just what a museum exhibition has to present. As we trace back to the time around 1945 when Taiwan was reverted to China, how did Taiwanese-Min people live at that time on the aspects of eating, dressing, inhabiting, traveling and entertaining? As for the artifacts and mechanics used in all professions at that time, how were they different from those used at present?