What are the names of ancient furniture?

In principle, classical Chinese furniture can be divided into "five categories" according to the different functions of use: beds, tables, chairs and stools, cabinets and shelves, and miscellaneous.

1. Beds: mainly include: step beds, shelf beds, arhat couches, arhat beds, and chaise longues.

The specific names are: tassel cold jade bed, coral bed, purple jade coral screen couch, string silk carved shelf bed, carved fine wood chaise longue couch, mahogany carved moire inlay stone arhat bed, beech wood carved frame bed, wolfwood carved bib bed, yellow pear carved dragon pattern arhat bed, red sandalwood veneer carved beast flower bed.

2. Table cases: mainly include: tables, tables, square tables, round tables, crescent tables, desks, books, painting tables, painting cases, piano tables.

The specific names are: sour branch wood carved inlaid stone octagonal table, red sandalwood flat corner table, ebony edge pear heart case, iron pear elephant pattern warped head case, purple lacquer painted gold landscape pattern begonia incense table, sea blue stone piano table.

3. Chairs and stools:

1) Stools mainly include: square stool, round stool, bar stool, horse, foot stool, sitting pouf, pestle stool, cross pestle, and bench.

2) The main chairs are: Jiao Chair, Taishi Chair, Four Heads Official Hat Chair, Nanguan Hat Chair, Circle Chair, Rose Chair, Lamp Hanging Chair, Palace Chair, etc.

3) Throne. The specific names are: rosewood inlaid stone back chair, red lacquered gold dragon head handband chair, ebony seven-screen scroll book armchair.

Fourth, cabinet shelves.

Functionally, classical Chinese cabinet furniture can be roughly divided into four categories:

1) Bedrooms: top cabinets, hat cabinets, etc.;

2) Study: Wanli cabinets, net endorsement bookshelves, door bookcases, Qianqiu bookshelves, etc.;

3) Treasures: Duobaoge, Treasure Cabinet, Bogu Cabinet, etc.;

4) Kitchen: bright cabinets, cupboards, etc.

5. Miscellaneous.

In addition to chairs and stools, tables, beds, and cabinets, there are many types of furniture, such as: bookcases, printing boxes, carrying boxes, screens, basin shelves, mirror stands, pen holders, carvings, etc., all of which are classified as "miscellaneous".

According to the function and function of miscellaneous categories, they can be roughly divided into the following "four categories":

Storage: bookcases, clothes boxes, official suitcases, treasure chests, stationery boxes, printing boxes, other boxes, all plates, boxes, etc.;

Screens: floor screens, bed screens, comb screens, lamp screens, hanging screens, curved screens, etc.;

Racks: hangers, basin racks, mirror holders, candlesticks, foot bearings (foot pedals), etc.;

Ornaments: pen holders, ink cartridges, chess cans, bottle holders, disc holders, smoking sets, carvings, etc.

Materials: The furniture in the Dream of Red Mansions is mostly made of precious hardwoods such as red sandalwood and pear, and there are also high-quality woods such as nanmu.

In terms of modeling: The furniture in Dream of Red Mansions is rich and beautiful, and is good at harmoniously matching with furnishings and environment. Such as the fortieth embellished brocade pavilion banquet, the carved lacquer used several "also have begonia type, there are plum blossom type, there are also lotus leaf type, there are sunflower type, there are also square, there are also round, the style is not the same......The style of the box is also the style of the several.

Decorative materials, decorative techniques on the colorful. Inlay, painted gold, carved lacquer, snails, wood, jade, stone, glass, etc., to name a few. Among them, the glass process was particularly new at the time.

In the sixth chapter, Jia Zhen wrote that she would meet guests and send Jia Rong to borrow a glass kang screen from Sister Feng to fill the façade, which shows that the furniture with glass installation technology was still very valuable at that time.

And the best embodiment of the "Hao" of Jiafu furniture, when pushing the collection of Yihong Courtyard lattice: "On all sides are carved exquisite wooden boards, or'Liuyun Hundred Bats', or 'Three Friends of the Cold Year', or landscape figures, or feather flowers, or highlights, or Bogu, or Wanfu Wanshou, all kinds of patterns, are all famous hand-carved colorful, gold inlaid jade - or store books, or set up tripods, or place pen inkstones, or offer vase flowers, or place bonsai.

Its style is round or square, or sunflower banana leaves, or even a half-turned, it is really a cluster of flowers, clear and exquisite. The five-color gauze paste is actually a small window; The color of the silk is light, and it is a secluded household. And the walls are full of grooves cut out in the shape of antique toys, such as pianos, swords, hanging bottles, etc., all hanging on the wall, but they are all flat with the wall.

It's very ingenious.

The furniture world in Dream of Red Mansions can be described as a microcosm of the aristocratic furniture of the Qing Dynasty. Its selection of materials, modeling, decoration are extremely exquisite, not only to meet the needs of life, but also the pursuit of a kind of aesthetic taste to satisfy, in different occasions, with different furniture, and the environment to form a harmonious picture.

At the same time, the orientation and combination of their furnishings also strictly follow different etiquette systems. In the Red Mansion, the beauty of art is everywhere, but also the shadow of feudalism is shrouded everywhere, and the furniture world is no exception. A Red Mansion, how beautiful and sad it is!