Curly grass pattern The "traffic star" of classical furniture ornamentation

In the decoration of classical furniture, curly grass pattern is one of the stars with the highest appearance rate. It collided with different civilizations along the Silk Road, and was used in the Arab region, The European countries along the Mediterranean Coast, and China, Japan, and the DPRK in Southeast Asia, and is a "mixed race" with an international cultural blending background. According to different shapes, regions and habits, it can also be called curly leaves, curly branches, tang branches, tang grass and so on. Applied to furniture, it is mostly curved and arranged, constituting a continuous, undulating and rounded pattern, which can be complicated or simplified. It is widely used in ancient Chinese art such as porcelain, embroidery, architecture, furniture and so on.

Mr. Tian Zibing mentioned in the book "History of Chinese Patterns": "If divided from the development and evolution of patterns, the Han Dynasty can be called cirrus cloud pattern, the Wei and Jin Southern and Northern Dynasties called it honeysuckle pattern, the Tang Dynasty called it curly grass pattern (Tang grass pattern), and in modern times it is called vanilla pattern, with different names, but generally wavy branch skeleton, with leaves; with flowers, also known as tangled branches." ”

The uniqueness of the curly grass pattern is that it is elegant and gorgeous, smooth and changeable, so it can be well applied to the decoration of narrow, blocky, irregular and other facades, suitable for shovel relief, hollow carving and other various techniques, and often combined with the dragon pattern, each other as a symbol. This feature makes it a very good balance of classical furniture ceremonial utensils, dignified and dull, bringing visual rhythm and liveliness. Especially on Ming-style furniture, the graphics and lines of the curly grass pattern pay more attention to generalization and conciseness, which makes the makers have a special love for it.

As the land of Confucianism, beautiful and subtle metaphors are the cultural roots of the curly grass pandemic. It not only conforms to the law of Taoism's existence and non-existence, length and shortness, and expresses the relationship between man and nature in harmony and symbiosis; it is also a symbol of Buddhist culture with both auspicious clouds and endless reincarnation; and its infinite repetition and the vitality formed by its infinite repetition and connection are in line with the needs of the auspicious and auspicious etiquette system, conveying the Chinese's wish for a better life.