The Chinese Antique Furniture is not only the essence of the culture of 5,000 years, also the crystallization of peoples' wisdom and painstaking.
From the furniture, you will find some characteristics and symbols of that dynasty or period. In the long history of China the most famous style of the furniture is in Ming and Ching Dynasty. Almost 90% of Ming style furniture were very simple, they were all with simple lines, round legs & corners, and some of them were tapered style. But it not means all the furniture in Ming dynasty were with simple shape, still there were some pieces were with full carvings, certainly there were for the prominent officials and eminent personages use. At the beginning of Ching, the furniture was still very simple. From Middle Ching dynasty, most of them were start to have some carvings, even till the end of 19 century, the carvings became more and more serious. In short, the history of Chinese Antique Furniture, is the history from Simple to Complicate
On the other side, another way to separate Chinese Antique Furniture is according to the regions that means South style and North style. Because of the economics of South is always better than North's in China, so the job and work of South furniture are always better than North too. Usually, the Southstyle furniture is always very delicate and exquisite, most of them are with nice carvings and beautiful golden paintings. The North style furniture are very strong, thick, bulky, simple and always in big size. Even the wood in South and North are different. For example, Elm in North, we call it lm"; but Elm in South, we call it South Elm (Jumu)". Why there are two different names of one kind of wood, is because the Elm wood in South obtains more sunshine, rain and nutrient, so that the wood texture of South Elm are much more pretty than the North Elm, and the quality too.
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Now the Chinese furniture is coming into our daily life after well refinished, so that it can be practical used everywhere, office exhibition hall, hotel lobby and even in our apartment. One thing that is the only a pity of Antique Furniture and everybody knows, it will expand and contract according to the weather is dry or wet. Because it is antique furniture, not same as new ones which put under the high temperature enough. So if you find your antique furniture expands or contracts don't worry about the move and split, you can put a bowl of water inside your furniture,it will be helpful.
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