The table game design of door gods for Taiwanese WoodblockPrinting Museum

• Main Authors: Shu-Hua Liu, 劉書華
• Other Authors: Yuen-Wan Lin
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2015
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/78943918514156873761

碩士 === 朝陽科技大學 === 工業設計系 === 103 === Abstract Many local cultural museums in Taiwan design ways to sell unique products for the education and understanding of the indigenous culture. The Taiwan Woodblock Printing Museum holds the largest collection of engravings in Taiwan; the major categories being classic catalog, statues spell, papering and literature recreation. The most popular collection is “Wu-Jian” (door-god). It contains Tu, Yu Lei, Chin Shu - bao and Yu - Chih Kung, Zhou gong-ming, Zhong Kui, chang tao - ling and so on. In recent years, the Taiwan Woodblock Printing Museum has been using different methods to educate people. Some of them being, the docent giving detailed explanations on the artifacts, letting people have first-hand experience, and connecting with people who are knowledgeable on the subject. Through an interactive way, we would like to hand down the tradition. For accomplishing this, an example is; the “Taiwan Woodblock Printing Museum game” it can be played at the table and also contribute to the learning of Taiwanese history. Table games of this feature can have players come face to face with each other. This way of learning has been gaining popularity recently and it is considered that the one way to learn is by the interaction that a child can gain by playing the game with the parents. Through document analysis, there are 50 different table games, using pattern recognition and using the paper-and-pencil style aiming to make table games. Then combined with wu-jian (door god) inclusive of Tu, Yu Lei, Chin Shu - bao and Yu - Chih Kung, Zhou gong-ming, Zhong Kui, chang tao - ling,(“ from Taiwan’s Woodblock printing museum”) set properties about different colors, blue, yellow, and green on the cards. Symbols of the “Door-God” in the card game become the answer under the “Door-God’s” common colors blue, yellow, green and will be designed on the cards in a corresponding manner when the players answer. Paper-and-Pencil are taken onto the seal during the game and are cognoscible to understand the concept of plus minus prints. To create amusement along with education on the table games, the “Door-God” is aimed to get everyone to change into a different body. The completion of a cylindrical package indicates its completion. When not played, the package can hang at home as decore.