Furniture making skills (furniture making skills in Jin Dynasty)

Name of China's national intangible cultural heritage: furniture making skills

Applicant: Linfen City, Shanxi Province

Item No.: 395

Project No.: VIII - 45

Time of publication: 2011 (the third batch)

Category: traditional art

Region: Shanxi Province

Type: Extension Project

Applicant: Linfen City, Shanxi Province

Protection unit: Shanxi tangrenju classical home culture Co., Ltd

Brief introduction of furniture making skills (jinzuo furniture making skills)

Applicant: Linfen City, Shanxi Province

Jinzuo furniture is a typical representative of Chinese classical furniture. It uses pure materials, exquisite production, perfect combination of form and content, reflects the artistic beauty of Chinese traditional culture in daily furniture, and has high artistic and cultural value.

Furniture making techniques in Jin Dynasty originated from Qin and Han Dynasties, gradually matured in song and Yuan Dynasties, reached its peak in the middle of Ming Dynasty, and continued to the end of Qing Dynasty. In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, when hardwood materials were exhausted, jinzuo furniture replaced local cork materials and became a wonderful flower in the furniture making world.

Jinzuo furniture uses local high-quality cork, such as walnut, elm and catalpa, and uses the technology of making hardwood furniture. The furniture is smooth, thick and simple, and is called "cork huanghuali" by people in the industry. Its natural color furniture should be cooked, soaked, roasted, ground, painted and polished. Lacquer furniture to go through hemp, gray, paint, gold, color and other complex process. Its main skills are "cracking and breaking lacquer", "bamboo, rattan and three wood structure", "multicolor and gold depiction". The furniture making skills of Jin Dynasty are mainly inherited by families, and gradually form a unique local traditional skills.

With the passage of time and the development of society, Jin furniture made in the Ming and Qing Dynasties has been limited in real objects, and its skill inheritance has encountered many difficulties, which are in urgent need of protection.