A Summary of Traditional Furniture Research in Ming and Qing Dynasties

Artistic style and characteristics of Ming and Qing furniture: Ming-style furniture refers to furniture made from Ming Dynasty to early Qing Dynasty, which is elegant, simple and has a specific modeling style. Ming-style furniture, with its rationalization of structure and artistry of modeling, fully demonstrates its concise, bright and simple artistic style. And he is good at combining elegance and vulgarity in one furnace, which is elegant and practical, vulgar without hurting elegance, and achieves the perfect unity of aesthetics, mechanics and function. Qing-style furniture followed the style of Ming-style furniture, but with the development of history, the integration of Manchu and Han cultures, and the influence of cultural exchanges between China and the West, qing-style furniture style, which paid attention to form, pursued originality and advocated gorgeous style, gradually formed in the Kangxi period of Qing Dynasty and reached its peak in Qianlong. Furniture in Qianlong period, especially palace furniture, is a typical representative of qing-style furniture, with excellent materials and exquisite craftsmanship, especially decoration, and the combination of various materials and techniques.