History of Rattan Furniture

Rattan furniture is one of the oldest varieties of furniture in the world, first brought to Europe by European merchant ships in the 17th century. People in Egypt found with wick grass basket, its age can be traced back to 2000 BC, and in the ancient Roman frescoes can often be seen sitting in wicker chairs on the portrait of the official adults. In ancient India and the Philippines, people chose rattan to make a variety of furniture, or cane cut into very thin and flat cane, compiled into a variety of patterns, for chair backs, for cabinet doors or rattan ware.

Rattan furniture is China's traditional furniture, which has a long history of raw materials and craft technology sources. Because it is purely handmade handicrafts, once with the rapid development of society, this aspect of the reduction of talent, rattan furniture art heritage is quite difficult, rattan furniture has been greatly reduced in the number and scale of production value. And in recent years, rattan furniture by virtue of its unique shape and function, technology and materials, value and practicality of a high degree of unity and once again won the favor of the people, its type, structure, shape, technology and products ushered in a great trade development prospects. In the modern furniture market has a strong attraction, glowing with infinite vitality and vigor. At the same time, China's rattan furniture sales at home and abroad, to bring people's lives fresh and pure, quiet and elegant countryside atmosphere, can to a certain extent alleviate the pressure of people's lives, so that people go back to the basics, soothing, cozy life.

China's development and utilization of rattan furniture has a long history. According to previous reports, before the Han Dynasty, high-footed furniture has not yet appeared, people sit and lie down with furniture for the seat, couch, which has rattan woven mat, rattan mat and bamboo mat is generally known as woven mat, was a higher level of a mat. The Yang Fei outreach", "chicken Lin Zhi", "things Ji Yuan supplement" and other ancient books, there are records of rattan mats. Rattan mat is a relatively simple rattan furniture at that time. Since the Han Dynasty, due to the development of productive forces, rattan craft level, China's rattan furniture varieties are increasing, rattan chairs, rattan beds, rattan boxes, rattan screens, rattan utensils and rattan handicrafts appeared one after another. Chinese ancient book "Sui Book" appeared to rattan as offerings, the Ming Dynasty Zhengde years compiled "Zhengde Qiongtai Zhi" and the subsequent "Yachuan Zhi" recorded the distribution and utilization of palm rattan. Rattan furniture was preserved on the shipwreck of Zheng He's voyage to the West Ocean in the Ming Dynasty in Fujian Quanzhou Museum, all of which confirmed the level of development of rattan furniture in China at that time. In the existing fine Ming and Qing Dynasty furniture, there are also seats are rattan seat surface.

According to the Qing Guangxu years published "Yongchang Fu Zhi" and "Teng Yue Hall Zhi" records, western Yunnan Tengchong and other places on the use of palm rattan can be traced back to the Tang Dynasty, so far has been 1,500 years of history; in Yunnan, according to the Qing "Yuanjiang Fu Zhi" and the Republic of China, "renewed new edition of the General Records of Yunnan," the use of palm rattan began in the early Qing Dynasty, so far has been more than 400 years of history. According to research, Yunnan rattan ware had a high level before World War II. At that time, Yunnan rattan ware was exported to Southeast Asia and Germany and other European countries. Among Yunnan rattan wares, Tengchong rattan wares have the highest reputation. Rattan weaving is known as Tengchong three good, history books Tengchong is also known as Tengchong Teng Yue, Tengchuan, Tengchong, which can be a glimpse of Tengchong rattan, the Great Hall of the People had regarded as a collection of treasures.