What does it mean that the furniture pattern has grass patterns?

Curled grass pattern, also known as Tang grass pattern, means: vigorous and auspicious.

Curled grass pattern, one of the traditional Chinese patterns. Take honeysuckle, lotus, orchid, peony and other flowers and plants, arrange them into an "S" wave curve after treatment, and form a double-sided continuous pattern. Flowers and plants are arc-shaped and round, commonly known as rolling grass patterns. Because it prevailed in the Tang Dynasty, it was named Tang Caowen.

In the Han dynasty, there was a scroll grass pattern. During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, scroll patterns were widely used in the edge decoration of inscriptions, with simple style and strong sense of rhythm. In the wavy structure, a single flower leaf, two flowers leaves or three flowers leaves are symmetrically arranged on both sides of the trunk, forming a continuous and smooth band pattern. Most of the murals of the Northern Dynasties in Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes are painted with scroll patterns, and most of them are made of honeysuckle. In the Tang Dynasty, the curly grass pattern was widely popular, with many branches and leaves, tortuous lines, complex and gorgeous flowers and rich layers. Leaves are curved and elastic; The veins are spinning and rolling, full of movement. The overall structure is smooth, full, gorgeous and full of vitality, which embodies the rich and beautiful style of arts and crafts in the Tang Dynasty and becomes a model of grass rolling in later generations.

After the Tang dynasty, the grass pattern of the Tang dynasty has been passed down continuously. Besides honeysuckle and peony, there are pomegranate, lotus, chrysanthemum and orchid. In the mid-Ming Dynasty, attention was paid to the Tang grass pattern with lotus as the main body, and then it evolved from lotus pattern to string pattern, which was widely used in brocade. In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the style of grass patterns in the Tang Dynasty tended to be complicated and exquisite, losing the vitality of the Tang Dynasty, but it was still an important traditional pattern. Now, Tang grass patterns are more common in architectural decoration and decorations such as printing and dyeing, furniture and ceramics.

According to some data, the scroll pattern originally evolved from the honeysuckle pattern, and the honeysuckle pattern spread eastward from the late Hellenistic period to the Roman Empire. With the expansion of the empire, it spread to the Ganges River and the Indus River basin, which had a great influence on the early Buddhist decoration in India. It can even be said that Indian Buddhist art "has Greek art elements from the beginning" (Meng Fan's History of Oriental Art), and what we see in Gandhara art has obvious Greek style. Honeysuckle pattern has also become a common form of Indian Buddhist decoration, and eventually it was introduced to China with Buddhism. In the Tang dynasty, it gradually evolved into a unique Chinese grass pattern, and the original form of gold and silver patterns was rarely used.

What aesthetic intention does China's scroll pattern contain? From the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period to the Qin and Han Dynasties, an important symbol of China's decorative art consciousness is the inner spirit embodied by colorful, virtual and real, and tactfully decorated clouds, that is, the current rolling grass pattern.