Ming-style furniture production techniques introduced

Speaking of furniture ah rabbit is endless words, now many young people are very much like the Western-style furniture, this is not rabbit's sister got married for the furniture of the matter hurt the brain it! Rabbit's sister like Western-style furniture, but the rabbit's brother-in-law like Chinese-style furniture, in the end is to choose Western-style furniture or Chinese-style furniture? This two people can hurt their brains! I do not know whether friends have heard of Ming Dynasty furniture? If you have not heard of friends today to listen to the rabbit rabbit talk about the production of Ming-style furniture technology Oh!

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Ming style furniture making technology is an ancient traditional Han craft in Jiangsu Province. Ming-style furniture refers to hardwood furniture made by skilled craftsmen from imported woods such as rosewood, sourwood, qizi wood, pearwood, and chicken-wing wood since the middle of the Ming Dynasty. Although Ming-style hardwood furniture is produced in many parts of the country, the furniture made by skilled craftsmen in the Jiangnan region centered on Suzhou is the most recognized. Therefore, it is recognized that Suzhou-style furniture is the authentic Ming-style furniture, and it is also called Suzhou Ming-style furniture, or simply Suzhou-style.

The varieties of Ming-style furniture are very rich. Retained, mainly stools and chairs, a few cases, cabinets, beds and collapsed class, table and shelf class. In addition, there are still as a barrier to the screen, screen, floor screen, and so on.

Ming Dynasty furniture production technology is known as the highest peak of ancient furniture production technology. Authentic Ming furniture, regardless of size, there is not a drop of glue, a nail, but the precise and ingenious mortise and tenon technology to combine the parts, so that the furniture can adapt to hot and cold, wet and dry changes, which is also one of the secrets of the Ming furniture can be maintained for a hundred years. Another amazing production technology is the curvature of the lines of Ming furniture and the human body structure, people sit up not only comfortable, but also help to correct the posture of sitting. In addition, the Ming furniture made in Suzhou has inherited the shrewd and meticulous characteristics of craftsmen in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and the wood is as precious as gold. Suzhou craftsmen with dexterous hands will be wood skillfully set, even the very small pieces of wood are put to use. Ming furniture was made from the mid-Ming to the early Qing Dynasty, spanning more than 200 years. Classic Ming furniture is known for its expensive materials, excellent workmanship, elaborate style and scarcity.

Chinese furniture through constant change, evolution and development, to the Ming Dynasty, entered a period of completion, maturity, the formation of a unique style, known as "Ming furniture".

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The formation of the Ming style of furniture can not be separated from the social conditions at that time. Measures to restore the economy at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty led to the recovery of the social economy and the development of social production. Craftsmen also than the Yuan Dynasty has made great progress, craftsmen from the "work slave", get some freedom, in addition to the official service, can be personally engaged in handicraft activities, which provides the conditions for the development of handicrafts. Therefore, the Ming Dynasty ceramics, furniture and other handicrafts, have outstanding achievements; and produced China's craft encyclopedia "Tiangongkaiwu" and "Garden Metallurgy", "Painting Record", "Luban Jing" and other works.

In the economic prosperity, scientific and technological progress in the prosperous country, the city's gardens and residential construction, with the prosperity. Palace aristocrats, wealthy merchants and magnates of the new residence, naturally need a large number of furniture to fill its interior. Plus Zheng He seven times to the West, from the abundance of high-grade timber in the South China Sea countries shipped back a large number of flowers and pears, rosewood and other furniture raw materials, from the South China Sea countries and China's close contacts. After the middle of the Ming Dynasty, rosewood, rosewood and other precious wood imports, but also to promote the development of the Ming Dynasty fine wood furniture this variety of a condition. In the Ming dynasty there are a large number of cultural celebrities, keen on furniture craft research and furniture aesthetic search. They appreciate, collect, write books and participate in the design of furniture wind, azure rise in the cultural circle. The input of these cultural celebrities, undoubtedly for the maturation of the Ming Dynasty furniture style, play a role. In the Ming Dynasty Jiajing, Longqing, Wanli three dynasties, in addition to the general situation is still lacquered wood furniture, the community began to advocate hardwood furniture. Pursuing the wind of ancient simplicity, throughout the north and south.

The late Ming and early Qing dynasties, the court will also be folk furniture production masters invited into the palace to make the required furniture. According to the Qing Dynasty Interior Ministry archives, Yongzheng three years to raise the heart of the Office of the woodwork has manufactured stacked down the record of furniture. Obviously, the carving of Ming furniture, as the production of "first skills" and by the ancient royal family attaches great importance to. Ming furniture carving boutique, many of which is from the Palace Office of skilled craftsmen's hands, the fine workmanship to today's breathtaking.

The formation of Ming furniture style, after a long time, it can be said that, from the beginning of the Five Dynasties, through the Song Dynasty, including Liao Jin. To the Ming Dynasty, social and economic prosperity, frequent exchanges with foreign countries, the opening of the sea ban, as well as scientific and technological progress and cultural development, the furniture industry has been a great development. Furniture to the Ming Dynasty, has been a complete variety, rich in shape, artistic style is becoming mature, can be said to be the maturity of traditional Chinese furniture, summing up the period. Ming-style furniture production process is fine and reasonable, all to precise and clever mortise and tenon combination of parts, large flat plate is to save the edge of the law embedded in the frame groove, solid and firm, can adapt to hot and cold wet and dry changes. The proportion of height, width and narrowness is either applied to aesthetics as a starting point, or helps to correct the posture of sitting in an ungentlemanly manner. Decoration is mainly plain, partially decorated with a small area of lacquer carving or carving, with simple, simple and not simple, exquisite and not elaborate. The outline of the whole body and the decorative parts of the outline of the square in the round, round in the square and the line of a gas through and have a small zigzag changes, lines strong and fluent. The overall length, width and height of the furniture, the overall and local, local and local trade-offs are very appropriate proportion.

Suzhou Ming furniture, with "rigorous structure, smooth lines, excellent skills, lacquer gloss" and other four characteristics, with its distinctive artistic style and local characteristics unique. Structural rigor refers to the composition of furniture are relying on mortise and tenon technology, focusing on structural integrity and balance of force; smooth lines refers to the appearance of the furniture to line-based, rarely carved; skillful refers to the selection of materials, ingredients, carpentry, sanding, lacquer and other processes are well done, impeccable; lacquer gloss refers to the furniture lacquer are used in lacquer traditional technology, through more than a dozen procedures of meticulous work to achieve the effect of lacquer like non-lacquer. The effect is like lacquer but not lacquer.

Selection of materials is one of the important work of the design artisans. Ming furniture mostly with pear, rosewood, chicken fin wood, iron pear and other hardwood as materials, also used nanmu, camphor wood, walnut, elm and other hardwood, which to pear in the yellow pear effect is the best. Design is the first process of Ming furniture production, not only to design the shape, but also includes the structure of the furniture, carving patterns, etc., its high and low depending on the designer's ingenuity.

Woodworking production that is the blank production, its basic process in addition to intermediate mechanical processing, there are four links of scribing, line, assembly, polishing. Carving needs to be designed according to the pattern by shoveling the bottom, straightening the edge line, pulling the flower, carving pattern, etc., to achieve the heel clear, flower and leaf live flip, clear levels, three-dimensional sense. Lacquer **** there are 16 processes: playing billet, scraping surface paint, sanding skin, do color; on the head of rubber paint, strand sanding skin surface paint; strand sanding skin, wipe the paint; push sanding leaf surface paint; push sanding leaf; wipe the paint and so on.

These hardwood color soft, clear texture hard and flexible, furniture modeling structure, artistic effect has a great impact. Due to the hard surface of the elasticity of wood, and hardwood is more precious wood, so the cross-section of Ming furniture production is very small. For this reason, the modeling also appears to be line concise, upright and lightweight. Because of the beautiful color and texture of the wood itself, so the Ming furniture is rarely painted, just rub on the transparent wax can fully display the texture of the wood itself and the natural beauty. Rosewood from deep black to purple-red, metallic color and satin-like texture, hard material, texture meticulous, suitable for carving. It is the most delicate carving of classical furniture wood, carving exquisite people can reach the degree of through the branch over the stalk. It can be said that the Ming furniture to rosewood carving and into the excellent works enough to represent the highest level of production of Chinese classical furniture. Huanghuali wood is brownish yellow or brownish red, noble and rich in resistance, with not easy to crack, not easy to deform, easy to modeling, conducive to carving and many other advantages, is the same with zitan has the same flavor of the production of furniture of the most excellent wood.

How ah, after listening to the rabbit of the above for the introduction of Ming furniture production techniques, from the past have not heard of Ming furniture friends is not quite shocked? In fact, Ming furniture in the Chinese furniture industry is quite famous it, but now most of the young people prefer Western-style furniture, so for the Ming furniture do not know much! Ming style furniture technology can be said to be quite exquisite, furniture modeling is not only beautiful, but also unique flavor, is definitely not the average ordinary furniture and Western-style furniture can be compared!

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