What are the main types of decorative patterns on traditional furniture in China?

The definition of figurative pattern can be summarized as: a pattern created by exaggerating, deforming or abstracting a specific image widely known in legend or reality. According to its content and image, it can be divided into beasts and beasts, flowers and fruits, utensils and treasures, figures and gods. Animal-god-beast patterns refer to birds, animals, insects and fish endowed with auspicious meanings by the ancients, such as magpies, cranes, mandarin ducks and peacocks. There are many kinds, shapes and changes of flower and fruit grain, and they are endowed with various qualities, integrity and significance because of the characteristics of plants themselves, which are loved by people. Such as three friends (pine, bamboo and plum), four gentlemen (plum, orchid, bamboo and chrysanthemum) and precious flowers. The treasure patterns of artifacts are mostly composed of artifacts and auspicious clouds. Most of these artifacts are magic weapons held by gods and buddhas in Taoism and Buddhism. People think that they have the functions of exorcism, disaster prevention and turning evil into good. There are mainly Taiji Map, Eight Treasures and Ruyi. Characters' tattoos mainly include characters in reality or fairy tales, or scene images with plots. People sing praises or place good wishes on it, so it is also common in architectural decoration of various dynasties. For example, in the Qin and Han Dynasties, there were fairy clouds and female Xia. The form of riding, shooting, singing and dancing in Sui and Tang Dynasties.

(2) abstract mode

Abstract pattern is a decorative pattern with geometric lines as the main part. There are mainly Fang Shengwen, Wan Ziwen, turtle back pattern, palindrome, kidnapper dragon pattern, ice crack, chessboard pattern, double distance pattern, even money pattern and even bead pattern. The general trend of the evolution of traditional decorative patterns in China is from realistic, vivid and diverse physical images to abstract, symbolic and standardized geometric decorative patterns. In the early days, the beauty of decorative patterns was not only in its form, but also in a "meaningful form". Because it is a natural form that accumulates social aesthetic feelings such as totem, religion, imperial power, ritual system and blessing culture. So there is no beauty without form, and only natural form is not beautiful. However, with the passage of years and the changes of the times, this kind of "meaning" gradually recedes because of its repeated imitation and becomes a standardized general formal beauty. Therefore, these abstract decorative patterns have indeed become the earliest models and specimens of all kinds of decorative beauty and formal beauty. People's feelings, comprehension and mastery of it need to be integrated into their own observation, imagination and understanding of real things. Therefore, in this historical process from reappearance to expression, from realism to symbol, from form to line, people unconsciously created and cultivated a relatively pure formal beauty and aesthetic sense of form. Formal laws such as rhythm, symmetry, balance, overlap, density, repetition, change and unity are gradually consciously mastered and concentrated here.