What are the characteristics of traditional Ming-style furniture?

Ming style furniture is a unique traditional Han furniture, refers to since the middle of the Ming Dynasty, skilled craftsmen with rosewood, qi zi wood, pear wood and other production of hardwood furniture. Ming style furniture is characterized by its three main features: beautiful shape, exquisite material selection and fine production. Most of the designers of Ming-style furniture is a strong cultural flavor of the literati, by their design of furniture drawings, and then handed over to the outstanding carpentry production. At the time of furniture design, the designer will often melt their own whims into the design, so that the furniture is beautiful, stable, simple, the proportion of the components of the practical and aesthetic consistency, the decorations pay attention to the less refined, light and elegant. Ming-style furniture in the shape, seek to make the best use of nothing superfluous, simple to no longer simple, emphasizing the furniture form beautiful lines, bright, fresh. The outline of the body seeks to have a circle in the square, a square in the circle, the overall line is complete, and there are appropriate changes in the subtle twists and turns. The structure of Ming-style furniture from the architecture of the beam structure, horizontal for the beam, vertical for the frame, rigorous structure, reasonable materials, no excess and waste, the use of mortise and tenon joints between the components, glued to assist firm.