Song Furniture Study: Song armchair

　　Text / Shao Xiaofeng edit / Chen Gui Hu

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　　Shao Xiaofeng, professor of Nanjing Forestry University, Ph.D., director of the Art Center College of Art and Design. Jiangsu provincial government,cheap authentic jordans "333 high-level personnel training project" second-level academic leading talent, Jiangsu Province Youth Federation Standing Committee, vice chairman of Jiangsu Province Young Artists Association, deputy director of Jiangsu Province Collectors Association Committee and Secretary General of antique furniture, Jiangsu Province Xu Beihong Research Vice President and Secretary General, the President of Young Artists Association in Nanjing, China Artists Association.

　　The most perfect chair

　　Chair is a backrest, armrests form a rounded whole chair, which the basic shape of the Tang Dynasty. For example Tang painting "挥扇 Ladies" in the chair, large thick, rounded fullness, carved and painted chair legs punishable as a decoration, coordination and nobles rather plump women body. Its origin can also be seen from ancient times with a few three-foot arc, which is mainly used sat on the floor or placed on the couch to use. However, due to historical reasons and factors difficult to preserve wooden furniture, has not been found in domestic physical or Song chair model. Song literature in the "make kaolao, buckling bamboo, wood for the ring-shaped armrests," the record, at the time, also known as round chair armchair, inherited the Tang and the Five-style decoration, take the brain and amble down armrest homeopathy, and some anti-roll again after the end of the armrest, modeling has become perfect. With the increase in high chair, armchair Song already has roughly the shape feature classic Ming-style chair later, there has been hemispherical dome shape, showing the beauty of the plastic arts of harmony that was later known as the Chinese design The most perfect chair, particularly Westerners enjoy. Its function is to provide a very unique person sitting relied upon not only be leaning elbows care, armpit arm has also been completely supported feels especially comfortable. Chair's backrest also do become compatible with the human spine S-shaped curve, and with a certain inclination of the seat surface, people sit on it, the back and the back has a large contact surface, ligaments and muscles get rest .

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　　Song armchair specific image can be found in the Song Anonymous "Huichang Guro map" (Figure 1), Song Anonymous "has sat map" (Figure 2), Song Anonymous "off threshold map", South 宋嘉熙 years Buddhist edition illustrations, Song Ma Lin "candle night map" (Figure 3), Song Yi Mou "pounding cloth map", Song Anonymous "sequence points Xi disguised View Trail Map", Song Anonymous "no quasi-normal, like" Song Anonymous "Wushan 10 brake map" (Shan abbot chairs) (Figure 4), the Southern Song Dynasty Anonymous "Wushan 10 brake map" (Shan Sengtang chair), Japan top like painting (Song formula abbot chairs) pass, Sichuan Guangyuan Southern Song Dynasty tomb stone portraits (shoulder yu style armchair ) and other paintings. Among them, the Song Anonymous "Huichang Guro map" armchair modeling is an important basis for later Ming-style chair classic style, and even the West can be seen as an outstanding modern furniture design guru Danmaihansi · Wigner (1914-2007) of design inspiration.

Figure 2 Song Anonymous "is sitting in Figure" in the chair, pier, foot Cheng

Figure 3 Song Ma Lin "candle night map" partial

　　The Song Anonymous "has sat map", Song Anonymous "off threshold map", Southern Song Jiaxi years Buddhist edition illustrations, Song Yi Mou "pounding cloth map", Song Anonymous "Teachers like quasi-free" (Japan Tofukuji possession, painted in 1238) in the chair (Figure 5) Heavy more complex, showing the Tang legacy.

"Five Mountains 10 brake diagram" in the Shan abbot chair and three-dimensional schematic diagram of Figure 4 Song Anonymous

Figure 5 Song Anonymous "No quasi Teachers like"

　　Song Anonymous "sequence points Xi disguised View Trail Map" (Japan Fu County Seef Tibetan Temple), the Southern Song Dynasty Anonymous "Teachers like quasi-free" (painted in 1238), the Southern Song Dynasty Anonymous "Wushan 10 brake map" (Shan abbot chair) top like painting (Song formula abbot chairs) In Japan the chair legs are three curved legs. Among them, the Southern Song Dynasty Anonymous "Wushan 10 brake map" (Shan abbot chair), Japan has entrusted the preaching of mud under the roof like a painting (Song formula abbot chair) in the chair three curved legs, but the Southern Song Dynasty Anonymous "sequence points Xi disguised View Trail Figure "in the chair no care mud, but there waist.

　　Ming-style chair of the foundation

　　There are two main chair armchair Song ring structures: one to form a circle in a vertical wooden chair under the support; the second is to form a circle of support chair legs extending up the front and back of the lower part. The first kind of song Anonymous "off threshold map", Song Yi Mou "pounding cloth map", "Plum Song writing poetry tu" and other paintings in the chair as representatives; second places Song Anonymous "Huichang nine old map "Southern Song Jiaxi years Buddhist edition artwork, Sichuan Guangyuan Southern Song Dynasty tomb stone portraits (shoulder yu style chair), and other painting in the chair as a representative.

Figure 6 Song Anonymous "wrote Song plum poetic map" in the chair

　　In "Song writing poetry tu plum" in the chair (Figure 6), for example, this Desks are more distinctive. This painting is ink into Song Jianzhi this, 30cm × 440cm, spread orderly. It is in Beijing Hanhai 2000 Spring Auctions sold 8.8 million yuan. The whole painting is divided into nine sections, each book two ancient Plum poetry, draw self-Liang Song Ho Xun to have a few nine people, six servants, Noe a person riding a horse, plum six, strokes moist, people spend Each attain its wonderful tree. Painting third book Du Fu poem: "Tour eaves cable co Plum laugh, half cold core thinning can not help." And painted Du Nianxu song sitting on the chair foot gate after Alice head case. This is similar in shape Desks and Song Yi Mou "pounding cloth map" in the chair, but with the "pounding cloth map" in the round chair seat drawer is different from its pedestal drawer square. After their chairs circle around the seat by more than a dozen wooden palisade made half of the drawer, chair armrest end of the inner circle speak volumes more, and a few were swirls. Its chair foot peculiar cloud was more rule-shaped head, and two opposite, lower half of the chair is more thick, and its upper half is not a harmonious echoes, but provides us with a different kind of style .

　　Clear from the chair only one style, Song has made a lot of creativity, and to Song Anonymous "Huichang Guro map" in the chair as the representative of the Song Dynasty chair laid the basis for the later development of the Ming-style chair.

　　Source: "classical furniture" magazine