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.
