Chapter 103 Why we love Ming Dynasty tables, chairs and benches

Why we love Ming Dynasty tables, chairs and benches Feng Tang People's hearts are changeable, and the trend changes direction after a while.The year before last, I liked to eat braised mutton, this year I liked to eat boiled fish and spicy crab, and I don’t know what I will like in the year after.Yesterday I was happy to watch the healthy and lively Ning Jing and Zhao Wei with big eyebrows and big eyes, and today I was happy to watch the cool and flirtatious Faye Wong and Zhou Xun with sharp nose and sharp mouth.The human heart remains the same. After many years, it still has the structure of two ventricles and two atria, and some things still linger.In the past, there was Luotuo Xiangzi, but now there are elder brothers, and the market is still there; in the past, there was Chen Yuanyuan, and now there is Qi Meifeng, and the evil is always there; Story", the emotion is always moving.From the past to the present, children have to recite "goose, goose, goose" and "moonlight in front of the window". We all like the tables, chairs and benches of the Ming Dynasty.

Why are the tables, chairs and benches of the Ming Dynasty the best?Because the Ming Dynasty (especially the late Ming Dynasty) promoted a market economy.Canglan really knows etiquette, full of riches and lustful, this principle has not changed since ancient times.Only when you have money will you feel empty, and you will start thinking about the starry sky and morality; The craftsmen of the dynasty made awesome tables, chairs and benches.Wang Shixiang, the master of Ming-style furniture research, said two similar reasons: "The reason why furniture in the Ming and early Qing Dynasties can achieve such high achievements is that, in addition to inheriting the fine traditions of the Song Dynasty, there are two main reasons: one is due to urban and rural areas. The prosperity of China and the development of the commodity economy not only greatly increased the demand for furniture, but also changed social customs, and a general trend of emphasizing furniture furnishings emerged. Second, the sea ban was opened and a large number of hardwoods were imported, making it possible for craftsmen to produce exquisite, solid and surpassing furniture. Old furniture."

Why do we still like Ming Dynasty tables, chairs and benches?Regarding this question, Mr. Wang just stated a fact, and the reason was not clear.Wang Lao wrote: "It goes without saying that the furniture display in the Ming and early Qing Dynasty is most suitable in traditional Chinese buildings. However, it is unexpected to see several very modern European and American residences with Ming-style furniture displayed. It is also very harmonious. It is not difficult to imagine that if the above situation is reversed, and the luxurious Western furniture for the past two or three hundred years is placed in the ancient buildings of our country, it will inevitably feel nondescript, but why Ming-style furniture and modern life are so different? Can it be in such a harmony? Thinking about it, it seems not difficult to understand, it is precisely because the concise and lively style pursued by modern Western life is essentially the same as Ming-style furniture."

The "conciseness and clarity" proposed by Mr. Wang must be one of the reasons.The simplicity of Ming-style furniture should be in line with post-modern minimalism: less is better, and less is better.According to Zen Buddhism, one flower is one world, one leaf is one Tathagata; one sentence is too much, but one sentence is wrong.I have seen the design of the board room of a well-known Japanese trading company: a courtyard, a dry stone, a dry pine, a stone house, and a wooden table; a beam of sunlight hits the small wooden table in the empty stone house from the roof, and there is nothing around it things.It's a bit extreme, but it makes sense.With so many businesses, so many investment possibilities, and so many personnel, we must simplify and think clearly.I have seen Zhou Gongxia (disciple of Wen Zhengming, Gongxing grass and orchids) engraved on the back of a red sandalwood chair: "Sit quietly for nothing, one day is like two days. If you live for seventy years, you will be one hundred and forty." The writing is average, a little sweet and weak, but the meaning is obvious.The five colors are dazzling, and the five desires are confusing the mind. In the final analysis, it is better to be quiet to cultivate the body, thrifty to cultivate the virtues, and everything will be there if the mind is not disturbed. "Succinct and clear" is not enough for everyone, and the function of "succinct and clear" well done can not be weakened at all, or even stronger.It takes work.Broken Venus, missing arms is "simple and neat", and if it lacks breasts and buttocks, it should be sent to the scrap yard.Girls' little shirts only show a little belly button, which is also infinitely charming, and it also promotes the secretion of hormones in the audience, which requires the good craftsmanship of tailors.Management consultants often mention the "elevator test": Suppose you meet your big boss in the elevator, test whether you can tell your big boss clearly what you have done in the past few months during the 30 seconds of taking the elevator together. what.In the past, ministers went to court and stated their political opinions to the emperor, and the available time was only 30 seconds.In these 30 seconds, it takes effort to be able to speak concisely, clearly and without dryness.

The second reason why we still like Ming Dynasty tables, chairs and benches is "delicacy and delicacy". "Simplicity and clarity" does not mean cutting corners. The tables, chairs and benches of the Ming Dynasty were made delicate and exquisite.I have known since I was a child that our civilization is extensive and profound, from ancient times to today, Tang poetry, Song Ci, Yuan music are clear.The tables, chairs, benches and stools of the Ming Dynasty were made of fine materials and made by master craftsmen, as if a master wrote a poem, "Two sentences in a year, one chanting and two tears flow", and a good chair is made, "Rubbing three times a day is like the skin of fifteen women! "Now when I visit Hongqiao Market and Panjiayuan Market, I often feel ashamed: the things are too fake, and the work is too crude.An old man with a white beard sells old books, relying on his beard and long attire to talk nonsense: "Look, this old erotic palace can't be faked! Look, the title page is printed, printed in the Northern Song Dynasty!"In the past, when I came out to play, being a Dong Xiaowan, I also had a rough knowledge of piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, intensive reading of "Su Nu Jing" and "Dong Xuan Zi", and I knew how to pick up yang and nourish yin; For medicine, you can pass if you spread your legs apart.

I'm moving to a new house and I need a chair.One of the places where I spend the most time in my life is the bed, and the other is the chair. I decided to spare no money.I have two options, one is the Ming-style Huanghuali Nanguan hat chair, and the other is Herman Miller's Aeron. Aeron is a mesh chair made of chemical materials. In strict accordance with ergonomic principles, all key parts of the chair can be adjusted; because of the mesh, no matter how long you sit in summer, your buttocks will not sweat.Sit on it, adjust it, and feel as if your first love is hugging you gently from behind you.After much deliberation, I bought the Aeron.The Huanghuali South Official Hat Chair is too troublesome.Experts who sell chairs say that for this kind of chair to be colorful and spiritual, it must be rubbed by the naked buttocks of the yellow girl from time to time.Now that there is a new society, where can I find a girl with yellow flowers?

(Wang Shixiang's "Golden Ashes", Sanlian Publishing, August 1999 Beijing first edition, all three volumes, 120.00 yuan)