A Study On The Jin Furniture

Furniture is the product of a tremendous and cultural connotation, being closely related with the development of human civilization and culture. Different countries, different regions, different raditional culture have entirely different nature on the artistic design of furniture . This creates a different style. Chinese furniture industry has a long history, creating a brilliant achievement, and because of the history and the current date of globalization swept, Chinese furniture gradually lost their unique style. Understandably, modern Chinese furniture has lost the original position. To revive the brilliant Chinese furniture, it is urgent to learn from the traditional advantage of nutrients, and reshape the furniture of Chinese style. Therefore, Chinese modern furniture material becomes a necessary feature localization development.Due to special geographical factors and the historical and cultural factors, the Shanxi old folk furniture is saved better, the number is great, inheriting is good, which makes shanxi become the art treasures of folk furniture. " jin traditional Chinese furniture", as another important branch of the raditional furniture, outfights Guang, Jing, Sue furniture recognized by most scholars and the wide at present. Therefore, this paper makes jin furniture as the research object, focusing on the selection of materials, species, adornment grain, as to help understanding jin furniture of shanxi and provide material to the inheritance and development of Chinese furniture industry.Firstly, this paper makes clear the concept of Jin Furniture , defines the reference object,and definsres the scope of study clearly. "Jin furniture" category refers to the emperor from the early minguo after before in the development of Shanxi Province to use local materials, such as elm tree, use, pear, and walnut, ginkgo, ChaiMu (hard miscellaneous wood), made by local carpenter, the aristocracy, family and social civilian use, full of resourse local features and characteristics of agrestic breath furniture genre.On the basis, starting from the long history, this paper expounds the background and the foundation of development of Jin Furniture in two aspects of the natural geography and social factors. Jin Furniture existed in Shanxi geographical environment. At the same time,Jin Furniture was impacted by the society history and humanistic environmentIn during the process. The fundamental cause for the prosperity of Jin furniture was Shanxi Traders flourishing and economic prosperity. The rise of Shanxi Traders flourishing provided sufficient physical security for furniture production. The extravagant custom in material life influenced the design and aesthetics of Jin Furniture to a great extent. At the same time, rich business culture and religion in the Buddhism is also one of the reasons of Shanxi folk furniture, reflecting in the form and decoration of Shanxi folk furniture in every aspect .Then, make research on the material of furniture,including wood, paint and hardware. Jin Furniture l usually used local materials. The most commonly used materials were Yu wood and Walnut wood . As one part of the Chinse furniture, the Jin Furniture followed basically the features of Chinse traditional furniture in the category and the structure.In the fourth part, the writer divides Jin Furniture into ZuoJu classes, ZuoJu classes ,Guiju classes and other classes, from the way of using it. While respectively expounds their shape features.The fifth part analyzes the decoration of the Jin Furniture, Inductiving and summarying the . features. Jin Furniture used a variety of methods on adornment . Adornment topics were very rich,and the used traditional technics were always the implication of good fortune.