What does forty-eight legs mean?

Forty-eight legs refers to the number of legs added to all the furniture at a wedding.

The following is the introduction of furniture:

Furniture is a large category of apparatus and facilities essential for human beings to maintain a normal life, engage in production practices and carry out social activities. Furniture also follow the footsteps of the times continue to develop and innovate, to today's wide range of categories, with different materials, complete varieties, different uses. Is the establishment of an important basis for working and living space.

China's ancient furniture are mainly mats, beds, screens, mirrors, tables, chairs, cabinets and so on. Mats, is the oldest and most primitive furniture, the earliest woven from leaves, and later mostly made of reeds, bamboo and gabion. Ancient people often "sit on the ground", which shows that the mat is widely used. Bed, is the mat after the earliest furniture. At the beginning, the bed is very short, the ancients read, write, eat, sleep almost all in bed.

Structure refers to the furniture used in the materials and components of a certain combination and connection between the way, it is based on a certain use of the function and the composition of a structural system. It includes the intrinsic structure and extrinsic structure of the furniture, the intrinsic structure refers to a certain combination between the furniture parts, which depends on the changes in materials and the development of science and technology. Like the traditional mortise and tenon joints and modern panel furniture with hardware connections are intrinsic structure.

Refer to Baidu Encyclopedia - Furniture