Why is Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties an important turning point in ancient furniture design in China?

From the Shang and Zhou Dynasties to the Three Kingdoms period, kneeling was the main way of people's daily life, thus forming a low-key furniture design. Seats, beds and sofas were the most important furniture in the room at that time. Until the Han dynasty, beds, tables, cases and clothes hangers were still very low, and screens were mostly placed on beds.

In the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, Hu Chuang gradually became popular among the people, and other forms of high chairs appeared, such as armchairs, round stools and square stools.

At this time, the history of China entered a long period of division, with Wei, Shu and Wu standing in the balance and finally ending in the Western Jin Dynasty, and the royal family of the Western Jin Dynasty later established the Eastern Jin Dynasty in the south of the Yangtze River. The northern part of our country was caught in a national scuffle, and many regimes appeared, called sixteen countries.

The furniture of each dynasty is closely linked with society and social subjects, and it was born and changed according to people's needs. Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties is an important turning point of ancient furniture design in China, which developed with the progress of society. We can see the influence and interaction of society on furniture from all aspects of culture. It can be said that furniture was born in social culture.

The reason is that Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties is an important historical era of China's ideological development, and it is also another period of ideological liberation after the Warring States Period. With the in-depth popularization of Confucianism, new values of life, life production and social ethics have been constantly produced, and philosophy has also been continuously developed, so metaphysics in Wei and Jin Dynasties came into being.

It is a historical necessity that people's lifestyle and furniture gradually change from low to high. Since then, China's furniture design has made real progress, laying the foundation for the glory of furniture in the Ming Dynasty. In the history of furniture development in China, Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties was indeed a very important era.

The blending of civilization and economy among all ethnic groups has promoted the development of furniture. Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties inherited the Han Dynasty, which was a period of great ethnic integration in the history of China. From then on, it laid the foundation for the prosperity and development of furniture in later generations.