The Development Of The Application Of Traditional Chinese Patterns In Interior Decoration

Ming and Qing residential houses in Southern Anhui are rich in cultural heritage. They involve not only traditional Chinese culture, ancient Chinese architecture, and the technology of masonry and wooden architecture, but also the use of traditional Chinese patterns in interior and exterior decoration. The application of such patterns in the interior of Ming and Qing houses in Southern Anhui is not only pleasing to the eye and the mind, but also of ecological use. For a long time, the study of such application has been confined to the superficial level of aesthetic appearance and auspicious symbolism, and has rarely extended to the overall aesthetic effect and the ecological use. What plays an important role in the production of such aesthetic effect? The answer should be the essential spirit of traditional Chinese patterns, the ever renewed concepts, the profound thoughts, the dialectical relationship between yin and yang, and the rhythm and ecological function of patterns, all of which are deeply embedded in residential house decoration and difficult to discern.Traditional Chinese patterns have a long history and embody the whole nation's wisdom and talent. For a long time they have been married with and played an important role in architecture and decoration. This paper expounds the structures and uses of patterns by citing the example of the research into the use of traditional Chinese patterns' structural function in the interior decoration of Southern Anhui houses. Then it reveals the principle and methods of such use in terms of the latent matrix and origin of house decoration, and thereby finds out the role that the structure of traditional Chinese patterns plays in the formation of visual focus and field force, the relationship between primary and secondary aesthetic effects in a space, and the ecological function of interior decoration, in order to compensate for the biased understanding of traditional Chinese patterns in interior decoration and avoid limitations on their application. That is the objective of this paper. In addition, through analysis and study of the use of the structural function of the patterns of the interior decoration of Southern Anhui houses, it attempts to find out the aspects of the use of the patterns' structural function, such as material, ecological function and form, which could not be realized or were not made full use of in the past due to historical limitations and backwardness in science and technology, but can be realized and are to be developed at present, in order to bring about an unprecedented situation by carrying on the tradition and breaking new ground for the use of the structure of traditional Chinese patterns. The paper is divided into ten chapters:the first chapter is the introduction; the 2nd and 3rd Chapters treat development status of Chinese traditional patterns, and relationship between Chinese traditional patterns and culture, highlight relationship between human and nature, and structure, forms, features, functionality and decorating function of Chinese traditional patterns; the 4th and 5th Chapters mainly narrate residential architectures of Ming and Qing Dynasties in Southern Anhui, plane and spatial layout of residential architectures and art features of decorations; the sixth chapter, an important part for revealing the methods of applying pattern structures, describes a node analysis of the application of traditional Chinese pattern structures in the interior decoration of Ming and Qing houses in Southern Anhui; the 7th Chapter, as a theoretical and academic part and also a prominent part of the paper, treats the influence of pattern structures on field force and application examples, and cases are used mainly for analysis; the 8th Chapter discusses the prospect of the structure and ecological functions of the interior decoration patterns of Ming and Qing residential houses in Southern Anhui; the 9th and 10th chapters, which may inspire a new horizon on the application of the structural function of traditional Chinese patterns, present innovative examples of new materials, new forms and new ideas in the development of the application of the structural function of patterns in the interior decoration of Southern Anhui residential houses in the New Period since the beginning of reform and opening up; the conclusion in the 10th chapter summarizes the whole paper.