What are the contributions of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period to the hist

1. Lacquered wood furniture.

Furniture in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, with lacquered wood furniture as a typical representative, formed the main source of China's lacquered wood furniture system, with a wide range of categories.

From a large number of unearthed objects, it is known that the lacquer furniture of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period not only has the original varieties such as lacquer figurines and lacquer tables, but also new varieties such as lacquered wooden beds, lacquered clothes boxes, and lacquer cases.

Painted wooden bed: the earliest bedding in China, the ancestor of various types of beds in later generations.

Chu-style small seat screen:

It marks the beginning of Chinese furniture to have a pure decorative appreciation value.

2. Lamps and lanterns. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, lamps and lanterns for lighting began to appear, and beans were the tools used for lighting at that time, which were made according to the shape of the beans, the food utensils at that time.

At that time, people used soybean fat as fuel, and put it in a small pottery bowl, put a wick, and light the light. It can be seen from the ancient character "lamp" that the lamp evolved from the bean. It is recorded in ancient books: the lamp comes from the bean, and the tile bean is called the Deng.

Bronze was a status symbol at the time. Research suggests that at that time, the use of bronze as lighting tools should have been the right of the aristocracy, and the crude pottery beans were probably used by ordinary people.

3. Eating utensils. Tables and chairs had not yet been invented, and people were still sitting on the floor when eating, and the utensils containing the food were placed on the table in front of the diners. The shape of the table is generally rectangular, with four short legs underneath, and a protruding perimeter on all sides of the table to prevent the tableware from slipping out.

A pair of bamboo chopsticks placed on the short-footed lacquer case unearthed from the above-mentioned Mawangdui No. 1 Han Tomb. It shows that the chopsticks have become the main utensils in daily life at that time. According to pre-Qin documents, the chopsticks were used to pick up food in soup.

The utensils of food are mainly dings, pots, gongs, franciums, boxes, basins, plates, etc.