Furniture Materials of Song Style Furniture

Although the furniture in Song Dynasty is mainly local cork, there are also many historical records of hardwood furniture.

According to well-documented data, the materials used in furniture in Song Dynasty are wood, bamboo, rattan, grass, stone and so on. , and wood as the main material, a wide variety, mostly local sources, including poplar, paulownia, Chinese fir, beech, apricot, elm, cypress, jujube, nanmu, beech and other fuelwood, ebony, sandalwood and so on.

It is recorded in Huiji in the Song Dynasty that in the sixth year of Kaibao (AD 973), Qian Zhuowei, the envoy of Zhejiang Province, paid tribute to "ebony chair, Phnom Penh roller and seven treasures". Ebony is tough. The use of ebony and other hardwoods in furniture indicates that the furniture manufacturing technology in the early Northern Song Dynasty entered a new era. At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty and the beginning of the Southern Song Dynasty, the poet Chen's poem "Bodhisattva Manlian" also has the saying of "ebony on the rope bed". Judging from the wording of the above-mentioned "Golden Ridge and Seven Treasures", the production technology of ebony had reached a considerable level at that time.

In the Song Dynasty, sandalwood was also used to some extent. For example, Song Yang Wengong's Yuan Tan records: "In Xianping and Jingdezhen, sandalwood is mainly made by Zhuo Yi." This shows that there was sandalwood furniture in the Song Dynasty. The first volume of Lu You's Notes on the Old Xuegong also records: "Emperor Gaozong made an imperial chair out of white wood in Hui Zong's clothes. When the rich man entered the court, he said,' Is this sandalwood chair?' Zhang Jieyu covered his mouth and smiled:' There are many kinds of bans on smoking, fat and lovesickness, and the "xianggong" has made a promise. "How dare you make a chair out of sandalwood?" "It means that Master Qian went to play and saw a chair made of ordinary wood and thought it was made of sandalwood.