Chinese Traditional Furniture Elements Of Aesthetic Value

As a part of the social material products and spirit culture, furniture reflects thecultural art of different regionals, different nationalities in the different historicalperiod.It is a product of the comprehensive development which aboves the humansocial politics, economy, culture, art and technology,etc. There are two reasons why thefurniture is a part of the culture, one is furniture has the culture and culturalsignificance as the human behavior and creation way,and the other is the art beauty ofthe furniture itself has the cultural meanings.China is famous for the deep culture, the inheritance and development of fivethousand years cultural not only have made the process and evolution of the humansocial life,but also produced artifacts in the structure and function, the feelings forbeauty of things have been made too.The formation and the evolution of Chinesefurniture are reflecting the restriction and experience for beauty all the time.The ancients designing furniture is a carefully thinking process, each classical workis increased a part long, minus one part short. To study these works have a profoundsignificance. Ancient furniture is pure handmade, each different.From Chinesetraditional furniture design, you can fully feel the ancient Chinese spirits and thoughts,the combination of rigorous and artistic conception not only meet the needs of use butalso let people get spiritual pursuit. From the aesthetic and artistic angle, this paperanalysis the traditional Chinese furniture, and makes a study of traditional aestheticvalues to the influence of the traditional furniture and traditional furniture cultureconnotation, it is the spread of national culture spirit and inheritance. Analysising of thetraditional furniture art beauty can make the traditional Chinese furniture infuse themodern life, and it also provides important reference for modern furniture design.Through the integration of mordern furniture and traditional furniture each element suchas modeling, structure, decoration, and materials, we can seize the living soul oftraditional furniture and design out works with Chinese temperament, which can reflectthe Chinese grand, profound and a long history culture.This paper discusses the development history of the traditional furniture and thereflection of the traditional aesthetic values in classical furniture.It also analyzes thecharacteristics of the Chinese traditional furniture art aesthetic from six aspects withthe meaning, form, labor, materials, act and the role. People in different periods have different requirements on the material and spiritual culture. With the development ofglobalization and the world widely communication, technology and material constantlyupdate and innovate, mixing and matching furniture have became popular.The perfectrefracting from Chinese classic furniture of the form,role, color and quality is theessence of Chinese furniture culture, to today’s furniture design also has a profoundedification. This rigorous and natural scholars furniture with fluent line,simple colour isthe carrier of the spirit of the Chinese traditional, while the traditional spirit and modernspirit should be used as a reference to each other,it provides more angle for people tocreate a suitable culture environment to live in.