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Chapter 213 Soviet Style Furniture
There are many pictures of ancient furniture in the artwork: a pair of four-piece nanmu cabinets, a hardwood carved moon-style canopy bed, a Ming-style rosewood round chair, a foldable nanmu carved dressing cabinet...

All the furniture needed for the bedroom is readily available. While looking at the artwork, Jing Shuo relayed his mother's custom-made requirements, such as size, decoration, and what needs to be changed...

This kind of ancient furniture is a test of the carpenter's skills. Jing Shuo's mother loves the Su-style furniture. Although the style is generous, simple and elegant, there are no complicated carvings or inlays.Even the carvings and inlays are very simple, but Su-style furniture is made of a single piece of wood, which runs through the top and bottom, unlike the furniture of the Qing Dynasty where the parts are separated.To be specific, the large utensils of Su-style furniture are mostly inlaid, that is, miscellaneous wood is used as the skeleton, and hardwood veneers are pasted on the outside. Although this method of inlaying is time-consuming and laborious, it also requires high technical requirements.

However, it is difficult to determine the bezel setting method without careful observation and touching of good bezel furniture.The purpose is to prevent people from seeing the flaws, and the joints are usually treated at the corners, so that the wooden texture of the furniture surface remains intact, which not only saves materials, but also does not destroy the neat effect of the furniture itself.

"These detailed requirements are all right. You know my family's craftsmanship, so don't worry." Wu Yongyuan confidently agreed to Jing Shuo's request, "If you want to make Soviet-style furniture, our family's craftsmanship is as good as that It is definitely counted in the whole country.”

The Su-style furniture mentioned here refers to one of the schools of ancient furniture. In addition, there are Cantonese-style furniture, Beijing-style furniture and other schools, such as Jin-style, Ning-style, Lu-style, Fujian-style, etc. .Among them, the ancient furniture produced in Suzhou, Guangzhou, and BJ, each representing the style characteristics of one side, are the three masterpieces of ancient furniture.

In fact, in China during the Ming Dynasty, there were no schools to speak of.At that time, furniture production was mainly concentrated in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River centered on Jiangsu Province.With the passage of time, the furniture production in Suzhou, Yangzhou and Songjiang in Jiangsu Province has become more and more famous. At this time, whether it is furniture used in the imperial palace or furniture used in official residences and private houses, it is continuously flowing from here to all directions. , People dubbed it the title of "Su Style".The so-called "Su-style" appeared in the Ming Dynasty, and it is the birthplace of Ming-style furniture, so it can also be said to be "Ming-style".In other words, the famous Ming-style furniture at home and abroad is mainly Su-style furniture.

The formation and development of Su-style furniture are inseparable from the development of social economy and culture at that time.During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Suzhou, known as "Paradise", was the center of economic development in the Jiangnan region of China. Sun Jiagan's "Journey to the South" in the Qing Dynasty wrote: "Inside and outside the gate of Changmen, there are mountains of goods, pedestrians and streams, and signboards are listed, like Yunjin, the language of its prosperity, is beyond the reach of everyone."During the Ming and Qing dynasties, Suzhou was famous for its silk weaving, embroidery, printing and dyeing, red carving lacquerware, carved jade, furniture and Taohuawu woodblock prints.

Ming Zhang Han's Dream Words on Pine Window."Bai Gong Ji" records: "The luxury in the south of the Yangtze River is especially the three Wu....Wu makes beautiful utensils, and I think it is not beautiful. ...Wu is precious in all directions, but Wu is good at making utensils."The literature calls the so-called "Three Wus", referring to Suzhou, Wuzhou, and Changzhou, collectively known as the Three Wus, with Suzhou as the head.The so-called "ware making" naturally includes furniture making.

"Well, that's it. Call me when everything is done, and I will arrange someone to come." Jing Shuo stood up from the desk and said.

Wu Qingchun nodded, "Okay, but it may take more than a year. Let me remind you first, because there are still two orders in front of your list in the store, so it will take longer."

"Okay, then Grandpa Wu, brother Wu, let's go first, there are other things to do later." After the matter was settled, Jing Shuo bid farewell.Today he still wanted to hurry up and go to the antique market with Xu Yunhan, but his mother told him early in the morning that he had to come to help her confirm the custom-made furniture, so he had to bring Xu Yunhan here first.

"Then see you next time. And, kid Jing, you must remember to invite us when you get married! Little girl, goodbye!" Wu Qingchun instructed with a smile.

"..."

After walking out, Jing Shuo felt that he didn't dare to look at Xu Yunhan anymore, how could he be so embarrassed!Fortunately, after being blown by the cold wind outside the store twice, my mind cleared up, I cleared my throat, and looked straight ahead,

"I'm sorry, Xiaohan, I originally said to go shopping, but I brought you here to accompany me on business. But now we can go to the antique street. Where do you want to go shopping?"

"It doesn't matter. I learned a lot about ancient furniture from the discussion just now. It was a worthwhile trip." Xu Yunhan shook her head indifferently. She originally agreed to thank him for walking around with him many times. Of course she wouldn't mind.

"Oh? Look there!" As soon as he walked out of the rusty gate of the second-hand furniture market, Xu Yunhan found someone selling things at a street stall next to the gate. "Go for a stroll?"

Seeing that she was interested, of course Jing Shuo would not object. The two of them took a closer look and found that this was a street stall specializing in selling root carvings.

Now Xu Yunhan is even more excited. Ever since she bought an old bamboo root carving birthday star with dozens of beautiful diamonds hidden in it in the small shop opened by foreigners in XZ, any root carving is in her eyes. They're all pretty cute!

Therefore, whenever she saw the root carvings, she couldn't help but stop to take a look and touch them, just like now, Xu Yunhan's eyes were already staring at those root carvings with sparkling eyes.

"Look at whatever you want, tell me which one you like, and I will definitely give you a discount!" Behind the booth, an old man and a young man sat on an old newspaper, and it was the elderly man who talked and solicited business. Looks like next year.As for the young man, in his twenties and thirties, the two look a bit similar, so they should be a family.

Xu Yunhan smiled, squatted down in a good manner, and picked up a pen holder carved from the root of an unknown tree. The surface of the pen holder was carved with some flower and wood patterns, and then painted on the surface.

"Do you like root carvings?" Jing Shuo followed her movements, knelt down and picked up a root carving decoration. After looking at it, the general modeling concept of craftsmanship was not very brilliant.Looking at the other root carvings on the booth, they were all similar ordinary root carvings, and there were even some assembly line works that were mass-produced by machines. I didn't quite understand why she was so happy to see these root carvings.

"Well, I think the root carving is very interesting." Xu Yunhan replied, ... it would be more interesting if there were treasures in it. She tilted her head and looked at him, "What do you think?"

"Among all the antique categories, I don't particularly like any ones, whether it's porcelain, pottery, miscellaneous items, jade, or others, I like them all." Jing Shuo said, waving the root carving in his hand, "For the root carving, I also know a thing or two, do you want to listen to me?"

"Of course that would be great."

"OK."

Jing Shuo squinted his eyes, and his expression was quite happy. It was the first time that he took the initiative to show his level of ability in antiques in front of people.Although it was a bit self-proclaimed, but he just wanted to tell her.I don't know why the way she lowered her head and listened carefully to what she said made him feel very bright and full of sense of accomplishment...

(End of this chapter)