Jianbao life

Chapter 781 Classical Furniture
Vincent asked with a smile: "Mr. Chu, do you also like classical furniture?"
Chu Chen replied: "Yes! I really like our country's classical furniture."

Vincent said with a smile: "Your country's traditional furniture contains and embodies your country's traditional lifestyle and aesthetic taste, and has profound cultural and artistic connotations. Its unique shape and lean and ingenious structure embody your country's The ingenuity and exquisite craftsmanship of the carpenters of the past dynasties, so I also like the classical furniture of your country very much."

"It seems that Mr. Vincent, you also have a lot of research on our country's classical furniture!"

Chu Chen nodded with a smile. Although Vincent's remarks may have been flattering, Chu Chen had to say that his words were indeed reasonable.

Classical furniture in our country is often used in traditional-style decoration, represented by the interior design style of palace buildings, which generally reflects a grand, magnificent, luxurious, delicate and generous style of masters.

The architectural pattern emphasizes high space and great depth.Indoor porches and other places like to use wooden columns, the column style is simple and round, and the color is bright.Carved beams and painted buildings, plaques and couplets, screen partitions, and woven bamboo curtains are ethereal and elegant.The decoration materials are mainly wood, with exquisite carving and painting, and elegant shapes.

The furnishings of the furniture pay attention to symmetry, and attach great importance to the contextual meaning. They are good at embellishing with calligraphy and paintings, scrolls, antiques, gold and stones, landscape bonsai, etc., rendering the room full of books and elegance.Being in such a bookish environment every day, watching the elegance of Zhilan and the tranquility of bamboo and chrysanthemum, the body and mind can be cultivated by art and enjoy the beauty.This is the unique charm of our country's traditional home furnishing culture.

Moreover, my country's classical furniture is not only a work of art, it is more valuable because it is an important part of Chinese culture. It is as self-contained as my country's literature, calligraphy, painting, etc., with a long history and a national culture. Distinctive features and outstanding style.

Now with the improvement of living standards and the revival of Chinese culture, there are more and more young people in China who like classical furniture like Chu Chen.

This is also because classical furniture is suitable for a variety of decoration styles, such as minimalism, modern style, neoclassicism, ethnic style, etc., which embodies simplicity and closeness to nature in the antique flavor.In addition, you can also get inner peace from classical furniture, and get a philosophical understanding of life from the circulation of space and the arrangement of some image symbols.

Of course, economic benefits are also indispensable. With the heating up of the antique market, classical furniture is becoming more and more popular among collectors, and its collection value preservation function is prominent. Therefore, classical furniture has also become the sight of some young people who like to manage money.

Like the huanghuali top chair carefully crafted by the Ming Dynasty court, it is not only exquisitely made, but also because of its rarity, the collection value is undoubtedly more prominent. Chu Chen believes that based on the current market conditions, the price will be able to double in a few years. Fan.

Of course, apart from the price factor, the main reason why Chu Chen fell in love with it and wanted to include it in the range of utensils for this transaction was because it was exquisite.

Vincent laughed when he heard the words: "It's a lot of research, but I know a little about it. By the way, since you like classical furniture, Mr. Chu, besides this top chair, I also have a few fine pieces. I don't know if you Are you interested?" He said, pointing to the row of classical furniture in front of him.

Of course Chu Chen is interested in high-end classical furniture, but now it's a radish. Even if he wants to choose, it must be as precious as the top spot in front of him.But this matter is not urgent, he said with a smile: "Of course I am interested, but let's go and fill our stomachs before we talk about it!"

While speaking, he also used his ability to screen all the furniture in front of him, and found that several pieces were worth more than one million. This made him secretly nodded, thinking that he would come over and choose carefully later, porcelain Good is good, but when encountering treasures of the same level, he does not intend to let them go.

However, when he saw a thing like a wooden board five or six meters away that passed the screening of supernatural powers, he couldn't help being extremely surprised. It's ridiculous.

So, Chu Chen, who didn't know why, quickly used Lingbao Eye on that thing, and he almost exclaimed when he saw it.

"Mr. Chu, what you said is, let's have dinner first..."

At this time, Chu Chen's mind was full of the thing he "saw" just now. To him, Vincent's words were like wind in his ears. He didn't turn back until Wu Ke took his hand. Come on.

Following Vincent out of the door, while Vincent closed the door of the treasure room, Wu Ke whispered in Chu Chen's ear, "Achen, what were you thinking just now, so preoccupied?"

Chu Chen also knew that he had lost his composure just now, but he really couldn't explain this kind of thing now, so he could only express his troubles in his heart: "Hey, I'm not worried about which one to choose?"

Wu Ke didn't suspect that Chu Chen was lying, she said softly, "It's really nothing to worry about, you can choose whatever you want, anyway, there is one thing, that is, you can't let yourself suffer."

"Well! Just do as you say." Chu Chen smiled slightly at Wu Ke.

After a hearty lunch, Vincent took Chu Chen and Wu Ke into the treasure room. Chu Chen didn't say anything nonsense, and continued to appreciate the classical furniture.

The styles of classical furniture here can be described as everything, ranging from large huanghuali beds to small red sandalwood coffee tables, and many of them are Ming and Qing court items. Among them, the Qing Dynasty accounts for the vast majority. Chu Chen thinks it is not difficult to guess the source.

The value of these classical furniture varies from high to low, but all of them are high-quality goods. If it is normal, Chu Chen really wants to take all the furniture in front of him home, but now he can only choose the high-quality goods among the high-quality goods. He felt very sorry.

However, there was no way around this kind of thing, and Chu Chen could only reluctantly give up. Apart from the previous top spot, he only chose a red sandalwood throne carved with clouds and dragons from the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty.

The throne above the pedestal of the hall is a symbol of imperial power, and it is the highest-level appliance in my country's classical furniture.

If you have been to the Forbidden City, you will find that in the Ming Dynasty of the main hall where the emperor lived and lived, there is a set of unique furnishings. , Luduan, incense tube, etc., called "throne room", that is, the emperor's "throne".

In addition to the royal palace, there are similar furnishings in the royal gardens, palaces and mausoleums.Although there are many royal throne furnishings and their placement forms are all the same, the shapes and decorations of the thrones and screens are varied, and none of them are the same, forming a unique scene of the royal palace furniture.

This form of furnishing is not just a group of simple furniture combinations as people imagine, but reflects the strict hierarchy of Chinese feudal society.In the interior layout, the throne must be placed in the center, which is a symbol of the supremacy of imperial power.Usually, except the emperor or empress dowager, no one is allowed to overstep at will.

No, since the Opium War, due to the invasion of foreign powers, most of the thrones outside the imperial palace were lost and flowed into the hands of the people and even foreign public and private collectors.This red sandalwood throne carved with clouds and dragons in the middle of the Qing Dynasty is a typical representative of it.

The whole body of this throne is made of rosewood.Under the face, there are girdles, shoulder spandrels, bulging legs and teeth, horseshoes turned inward, and mud support.The seven-screen-style seat surround, the back panel, the center of the armrest, the four legs below the face, and the tooth bars are all carved with cloud and dragon patterns in relief, and the workmanship is fine.The back panel of the throne is painted with a lacquer heart, and the pattern of clouds and dragons is painted in gold painting.

Generally speaking, most of the lost folk thrones are not matched with the pedals, but this throne is also equipped with rectangular pedals, which are in the Xumizuo style. The pattern of double dragons playing with beads is fully carved, which is a perfect match with the throne.

The throne and the pedals are painted with typical Soviet-style furniture in the mid-Qing Dynasty. They are all painted with black lacquer on the bottom. After years of vicissitudes, the coating is thick and moist, and there are broken lines on the belly of the snake, winding and cracking. It is full of interest and further shows that The throne and pedals are indeed original.

In addition, in addition to the original pedals, the front and sides of the legs are also covered with cloud and dragon patterns. Among the many red sandalwood thrones in the Forbidden City, most of them have bare legs, which shows that this seat is luxurious and noble.

This throne has precise knife skills, round and thick, without revealing the blade edge, lifelike dragon patterns, and vivid cloud patterns, and it can be preserved together with the throne. A treasure that condenses the emperor's mind and ingenious craftsmanship.

A throne like this is very high in terms of craftsmanship and collection value. Of course, Chu Chen wanted to take it down. So, after choosing two heavy pieces of classical furniture, he pretended to walk to a place that looked rather strange. Ordinary, in fact, extraordinary plank front.

"Hey, this is..." Chu Chen pretended to be surprised and picked up the wooden board.

Wu Ke stepped forward and saw that the board was wide at one end and narrow at the other, and there were obvious undulations on it, so he said in Chinese: "Isn't this the body of a Guqin?"

When Vincent saw this piece of wood, he didn't remember what it was at first, but he still knew a little about literature. When he heard the word "qin", he laughed and said:

"Mr. Chu, this is indeed a piece of the piano body. I bought it together when I bought the top chair. I originally wanted to repair it, but I forgot about it after a long time. Why, Have you ever learned this instrument?"

Chu Chen chuckled and said, "Of course I haven't learned this musical instrument, but my fiancée has."

Chu Chen is not talking nonsense. I said before that because Uncle Wu was born with a daughter, he attached great importance to Wu Ke's education. When Wu Ke was young, he found several extracurricular teachers for her. Among them, the guqin teacher was is one of them.

(End of this chapter)