Jiangnan Ming-style Studio Furniture Research

There is an inner-relation and interconnection between archaic scenes for Chinese ancestors to read and to play instruments or chess and Chinese ancient gardens. Chinese Garden is the direct reason for moulding the dated style of Study Environment of China. Especially during Ming & Qing Dynasty, Jiangnan Gardens formed Ming-style Furniture, which is the cereals base for Jiangnan Reading Room in current understanding, famed all over the world. This thesis is about Ming-style Furniture in Chinese Study to search for the historical story of its culture. It studies and probes the furniture system of Jiangnan Ming-style Furniture including types, frames, shapes, and functions, in especial model notations of ancient masterpieces handed down through generations, to approach the special style of Chinese Ming-style Study Furniture.Moreover, Ming-style Study Furniture is the cream of Chinese Traditional Furniture, which is prescribed as Classic Creation. It is occurred in special period of time under the influence of Jiangnan scholars with literate tinges that infiltrate directly. It abounds cultural context and scientific spirit. It pushes Ming-style Furniture up to the peak. Investigation into the deep content of Jiangnan Study Furniture is to learn more about the unique aesthetic value and high humanity at these days.The wheel of history never stops. New time presents new humanity and social spirit. To inhale fresh air of Information Era, to learn society station, cultural conceptions and scientific techniques, depend on our new thinking ways. The way to originate by inheriting needs to comb out design ideas and creation notions of modern Jiangnan Ming-style Study Furniture.