What are the characteristics of ancient Chinese furniture

Prehistoric furniture refers to furniture that appeared from ancient times to the 16th century BC.

The main features of prehistoric furniture:

1) The emergence of the prototype of furniture. It is mainly manifested in the creation of wooden coffins, pigeon peas, wooden buckets, wooden boxes, wooden figurines, wooden cases, etc.

2) The emergence of tools such as stone axes and stone adzes. The production tools are mainly the application of stone axes and stone adzes, as well as stone chisels, bone chisels, angle chisels, stone wedges, and wooden sticks made of mortise and tenon joints.

3) Simple structural forms appear. The wooden components are horizontally and vertically occluded, and the plates are put together in the form of tongue and groove joint structure. Craft forms such as digging, bundling, or bracing of furniture began to appear.

The main features of furniture in the Xia, Shang and Zhou periods:

1) The appearance of the image of the furniture matrix. 俎, in the Yu Shi called "complete 俎"; End, "the broken wood is only four-legged" (Zheng Xuan's statement in the Han Dynasty). After the summer, it is called "Ji Yan", which is mostly used for sacrifices, and its shape is a horizontal pole interspersed between the legs on both sides.

In the Shang period, it was called "Gu", using the characteristics of many curved branches, the legs were made into an arc, and interspersed on the long-lengthened horizontal straps on the ground, so that the wooden structure tended to be reasonable, which should be the matrix form of the "mud dragging" structure in the later cases.

2) The appearance of words such as mat and bed.

3) Lacquer paintings of furniture decoration patterns appear.

2.Spring and Autumn Period furniture from the Warring States Period (c. 770 BC to 221 BC).

During this period, bronze began to decline and lacquerware began to be mass-produced. The production of iron riding tools, the wide application of lacquer technology, and the continuous emergence of skilled craftsmen have made furniture reach unprecedented heights in terms of production and use requirements.

Furniture varieties: figurines, cases, several, beds, public opinions, forbidden, seat screens, boxes and shelves.

The main features of furniture in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period:

1) Luban and the seven departments of carpentry appeared. The appearance of the fenced bed and the large rectangular box made of the Warring States period.

2) The revolution of woodworking tools has made a qualitative leap in furniture making. It is mainly manifested in: the use of making tools and the differentiation of various types of work, resulting in measuring instruments such as rules, moments, suspensions, horizontals, and ropes; Dovetail tenon, convex and concave tenon, lattice shoulder tenon Kaihua Temple appeared.

There has been a qualitative leap in furniture making; Dovetail tenons, convex and concave tenons, and lattice angle tenons combined with lap joints and tenons began to be used more reasonably.

3) The rise of furniture decoration. advances in lacquer and painting techniques; The carving and carving in the carved decorative furniture penetrate and complement each other; The abundance of weaving techniques.