《考工记》是中国目前所见年代最早的手工业技术文献,书中保留有先秦大量的手工业生产技术、工艺美术资料,记载了一系列的生产管理和营建制度,一定程度上反映了当时的思想观念。该书在中国科技史、工艺美术史和文化史上都占有重要地位。然而其中保留的先秦大量的手工艺设计思想,更是现代设计可持续发展的有力保证。 “Kao Gong Ji” is the earliest handicraft technical literature that China has seen at the earliest time. The book contains a large quantity of handicraft production techniques and arts and crafts materials in the pre-Qin period. It records a series of production management and construction systems, which reflect to a certain extent the Idea concept. The book occupies an important position in the history of science and technology, arts and crafts and cultural history in China. However, a great deal of handicrafts design ideas preserved in the pre-Qin period are a powerful guarantee for the sustainable development of modern design.