Sunday, February 1, 2009

Xuzhou characteristics of Ming-style furniture

Xuzhou characteristics of Ming-style furniture

Ming-style furniture craftsmen in China's Ming Dynasty in summing up the experience and wisdom of our predecessors, and inventions, in the traditional arts have made a splendid accomplishments. Ming-style furniture of the style characteristics, mainly reflected in a prudent and generous shapes; the proportion of reasonable size, contour stretch concise. Although the Ming-style hardwood furniture in many parts of the country of production, but most furniture produced by Xuzhou we have recognized. Therefore, it is acknowledged that the Soviet Union-style furniture of Ming furniture is authentic, but also called Xuzhou Ming style furniture.

Ming-style furniture Xuzhou characteristics can be summarized as "well-structured, the line is smooth, sophisticated technology, Chatham Ze bright" four characteristics. Ming-style furniture and more use of pear, red sandalwood, rosewood, chicken wings, and other valuable hardwood, as these hardwood and soft color, texture clear, rigid and flexible, so cross-section of Ming furniture is very small, concise style naturally, tall and straight , lightweight, the frame structure, with our unique style of wooden structures line. Modeling based on the needs of craftsmen have created a mortise-ming, stuffy mortise, tenon grid angle, semi-tenon, the length of tenon, dovetail joints, mortise chuck and "save side" technique, King shoring, Luo pot and other support structures. Not only enriched the furniture style, but also to make furniture are durable. Authentic Ming-style furniture, large or small, do not have a drop of glue, a nail, but rather clever sophisticated techniques to combine d tenon parts, so the furniture can adapt to hot and cold, wet and dry change, this is Ming-style furniture can be maintained for centuries do not deformation of one of the secrets. Ming-style furniture lines radian with the human body structure, people get to not only comfortable, but also help to correct sitting posture state.

Ming-style furniture decorated less, there are multi-site carving foot column in the seat on the board between the teeth. Backrest and the back end components. There were shallow engraved sculpture techniques, there are ground relief, deep carving, carving and other legislation. The use of symmetric composition, or appear in a balanced composition symmetrical patterns. A variety of subjects, animals have a dragon and phoenix patterns, Varicorhinus tiger, Qiu Kui, lions, deer, a unicorn. Stria plants there, peonies, pendula, Ganoderma lucidum, Po-phase flowers. Other patterns are cross pattern, stria million characters, ice cracks, smug cloud the first pattern, Yuhuan stripes, cord, moire, water and flame patterns, such as geometric patterns.

Ming-style furniture is unique is multifaceted, with two words to sum up its artistic characteristics, that is, "Jane, thick, precision and elegance." Jane refers to its shape, not cumbersome, not piling up, the ratio-scale affordable, simple and neat. Thick, saying that it has the image of simple and honest, with a solemn, simple results. Essence, is saying that it has sophisticated workmanship, first-line side, turn right and wrong, rigorous precise and meticulous. Blair is saying that it has an elegant style, it is, conform to no conventional pattern, with high artistic taste and style.

Xuande furnace

Xuande furnace

Liquid copper smelting Xuande period the right way to cast method may be used. Xuande furnace really did not "Golden furnace" that is, throwing furnace, nor did the "gold-plate a small furnace."

Xuande furnace did not really Arabic and only Sanskrit. Xuande furnace really no "side seal section," Xuande furnace "engraved under" really unlikely, Xuande furnace section called: "India shall cast system" and "thermal processing subsection" body beautiful signed formal furnace, will it be possible to really Xuande furnace.

Ming-style furniture, decoration craft

Ming-style furniture, decoration craft

Multi-site carving of the Ming Dynasty in the seat between the teeth foot column back on the board or the backplane and the end components. Ming Dynasty carving only the role of eye-dotting or contrast. There were shallow engraved sculpture techniques, there are ground relief, deep carving, carving and other legislation. The use of symmetric composition, or appear in a balanced composition symmetrical patterns. A variety of subjects, animals have a dragon and phoenix patterns, Varicorhinus tiger, Qiu Kui, lions, deer, a unicorn. Stria plants there , peonies, pendula, Ganoderma lucidum, Po-phase flowers. Other patterns are cross pattern, stria million characters, ice cracks, smug cloud the first pattern, Yuhuan stripes, cord, moire, water and flame patterns, such as geometric patterns.

Ming furniture to those less landscape carving to poetry and painting for decorative inscriptions are relatively more, which is the art of the late Ming literati style of a high degree of development. Today handed down four late Ming literati (Zhou ball, Wen Zhengming, Zhu Chi Shan, Dong Qichang) writing paragraph Ming Ming literati style seating is under the influence of the representative, and its inscribed calligraphy more to improve the artistic value of the seat.

Metal for furniture accessories, mostly for the protection of client or for the reinforcement angle and focus settings, followed by the role of landscaping. Copper-nickel alloy ornaments mainly used for materials. Copper-nickel alloy for copper-nickel alloy, color and soft, rather than brass. Emperors used in the High on, there is a monolithic on the chisel-yang pattern, hammer on the metallic gold-plated metal parts. Commonly used ornaments have face pages, hinge, angle, and certain special pieces of metal. Side pages, often hinge round, rectangular, rectangular-shaped head, such as wishful cloud.

The need for maintenance of expensive watches it?

The need for maintenance of expensive watches it?

Watches a lot of owners who do not know what to do watch their own maintenance, the purchase of high-grade watches more and more people, and the maintenance of undue influence things watches life and fewer people really know that many people have the luxury watches watches do not care often cut short because the human factor watches life, but also very few people knew that to buy back the watch every place needs to do professional testing, in time for the watch movement refueling, such as the replacement of seals. Many customers do not agree to open a maintenance center clocks back. Fear of damage to expensive watches, is not true.

Watches movement is open to normal, even the precious pocket watch, if we do not open it, nor can they do for regular maintenance and care, as if re-expensive watches will also shorten the life span. Motor vehicles are the movement, require regular maintenance. Watches is movement, like the need for regular maintenance.