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What are the main characteristics of Ming furniture?

The characteristics of Ming dynasty furniture can be summarized as three points:

1. Harder tree species are widely used to make all kinds of hardwood furniture.

2. Dyeing without paint cover fully reflects the original texture and color of wood.

3. The use of wood frame structure pays great attention to the modeling of furniture.

Ming-style furniture pays attention to material selection, using hardwood such as mahogany, rosewood, rosewood, chicken wing wood and iron pear. Some furniture also uses hard miscellaneous wood such as nanmu, elm and camphor wood, among which Huang Huali wood has the best effect.

Hardwood is a relatively precious wood. Its wood is hard and elastic, and its color and texture are beautiful. Therefore, Ming-style furniture rarely uses paint, and only transparent wax can show the texture and natural beauty of wood itself.

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The practical aesthetics of Ming-style furniture connects literati and craftsmen through frank temperament. The literati in Ming Dynasty were deeply influenced by the theory of mind, emphasizing respect for their own temperament. Especially in Wang Gen of Taizhou School, Wang Yangming's "seeking conscience" changed from "heart" as the core to "body" as the center, emphasizing "settling down", "respecting body", "loving body" and "respecting body".

Finally, the concern about "body" is put into practice on the proposition that "people's daily life is the Tao", and the existence of human body is compared with the Tao of saints. Li Zhi further raised people's desire and secular life to the ethical level, thinking that "dressing and eating is the physics of human relations. There is nothing but dressing and eating. "

Respect for daily life enables literati to show their temperament. This is combined with the simplicity and naturalness of craftsmen from the folk, which gives Ming furniture a sincere artistic conception. In form, it is to present the aesthetic feeling and texture of the appliance itself with less carving and more basic lines. ?

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