What Can We Learn From Ancient China Folk Custom Furniture

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If you are a furniture researcher, you would be more interested in the folk custom furniture in ancient China, in the following article, I will discuss what can we learn from the folk custom furniture.

Just as its name implies, the folk custom furniture should be the ones which are used in the folk society and in many cases there are the necessaries in people’s daily life. Based on such situation, the design of almost all the folk custom furniture are practical firstly and there is no more beautiful patterns on the surface of them. In short, they are simple, practical and popular in folk society. However, when we looking at the modern furniture design, only small parts of furniture still comply with the principles of ancient China furniture design, more and more furniture are followed the style of the western furniture, which is called the acting on international convention. In fact, some western furniture are not suitable for our daily life. Take the kitchen utensils for example, because of the different dietary habit, the kitchen utensils and even the kitchen design should be different. On the other hands, some design ...
... on the modern furniture is really good. Take the tea table for example, the function of making Kung Fu tea can be realized nowadays. If such practical design can be extended to other furniture such as kitchen items, it would be better.

In the past, some Chinese furniture researcher have repeatedly stressed the design of furniture should have the national character and it is better to inherit the traditional Chinese furniture feature. As a result, the beautiful design can be from the past to nowadays and then to the future. In fact, according to the scientific research carried out by the Chinese furniture researcher, some Chinese furniture design are based on some famous Chinese folk arts such as peasant painting, clay sculpture, paper cutting, embroidery, calligraphy and others.

In order to inherit the traditional Chinese furniture features, two aspects should be paid more attention.

Firstly, pay more attention on the palace furniture and literati furniture design because they are the traditional Chinese furniture. Take the famous rosewood furniture for example, lots of them have the majestic and luxuriant features like the palace furniture.

Secondly, it is also necessary to pay more attention on the folk custom furniture because most of them are practical with simple deign. They are designed based on the daily life and bring the convenience for people.

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