Author: Beijing MuYi
Qilin network is a well-known domestic classical furniture forum, heard that a new copy of the "Classical Furniture Longitudinal Theory" ("Qilin Forum Jinghua Collection"), as an old wooden friend who has a deep affection for the Qilin network, I heard the news and felt unusually surprised, and immediately bought a copy from the Kirin official to take a look.
The book is hardcover, and the color system is very much in line with the tone of the unicorn, which feels very intimate. Originally thought that this was just a simple collection of forum essence posts, more to reflect the feelings of Kirin, but in fact, after reading the content, I found that it exceeded my original expectations.
First of all, in the book I found a lot of content that I hadn't seen in forums before. After all, when I was mixed in the Qilin forum before, many old posts were sunk to the bottom and were ignored. Seeing these contents today, it is completely new to me, such as "The Analysis and Improvement of the Three-Legged Short Table" and "Huanghuali Identification" and other articles. It's a good feeling.
Secondly, when browsing the forum in the past, I felt that everyone was more casual and extensive when posting, and there were many text and sentence errors in some posts, and even some views were not necessarily correct, and even sometimes it felt like being in the clouds. And this time I read the book carefully and found that there was a great improvement. The original feeling of stumbling when reading the post is gone, the nonsense is gone, and the original views on some problems have also been adjusted, in short, I feel that the book is a book, and it is incomparable to the forum in terms of scientificity and rigor. When I read the article "Mahogany Crossing the River Examination", this feeling was the strongest, because the articles in the book and the posts in the forum seemed to be two articles, and the articles in the book were more organized, full of data, and meticulous reasoning. From this, I can also fully feel that the editor-in-chief must have spent a lot of energy on coordinating and editing the whole book.
Finally, I also saw a number of articles that were not in the original forum, which should have been specially added, such as the must-read list provided by Teacher Zhou Mo to study the beauty of classical furniture. This list of books is simply too precious for many wood friends. I played for 3 years before I gradually learned the names of some classic books on classical furniture. Before learning a lot of furniture knowledge, when communicating with others, listening to others say some professional words and phrases that they don't know is like listening to the heavenly book, and the heart can't help but be timid. If I had known this list of books earlier, I could have taken fewer detours and bought fewer useless books and duplicate books. Through Mr. Zhou's book list, I also learned to study classical furniture, in addition to reading furniture professional books, but also to read some aesthetics books, cultural and philosophical books.
I also saw an article "Imitation of the Dwarf Southern Official Hat Chair on the Way of High Imitation", which was also quite inspired. I have also bought a few so-called high-imitation furniture before, but I always feel that something is wrong. After reading this article, I learned that it is not easy to do high imitation, in addition to the original work requires extremely careful and careful observation, but also have a deep knowledge of the process. It must be both, one is indispensable.
The other day, I went to a classical furniture factory, and I strongly recommended this book to the director. The director of the factory with nearly 30 years of experience in making furniture has always been very conceited and dismissive of general furniture books. He smiled and accepted the book, saying that he had time to read it. Within a few days, he told me that there was a lot of content in the book, which made him suddenly broaden his horizons and the shock was quite large. For example, he can't imagine, he helped netizens make a melon drum stool, only 20 ridges, the workers spent a lot of days to complete, so when the assembly was repaired for a long time to install tightly, and others used CNC machine tools to do a good job in a few hours, the quality is still quite high.
I finally took the time to read the whole book carefully, and I felt that this "longitudinal" book was still quite heavy. I believe that books can teach and solve puzzles, but also broaden horizons and inspire ideas. The role of most professional books in the industry is mainly in the former, and this "Classical Furniture Survey" has both before and after. Although this book belongs to the longitudinal miscellaneous, the content has been classified and arranged, covering the shape, materials, craftsmanship and Chinese decoration of classical furniture, and the selected knowledge points are also very representative. For example, in the material section, a large number of pages are given to the analysis of rosewood and huanghuali materials, focusing on material identification, and the drawings are abundant, which is an excellent supplement to the lack of knowledge points of some mahogany material books on the market. In fact, a lot of knowledge in the design, production, collection and other aspects of classical furniture cannot be reflected in some systematic furniture books on the market, and this "Longitudinal Theory" can contain them well. There are also some articles with very different views in the "Longitudinal Theory", from which you can see the editor's open attitude of encouraging debate and pursuit of truth, so that everyone can take the initiative to think.
In short, this "Classical Furniture Book" is a "special" book in the field of classical furniture in recent years, and it is also a very valuable book. This is also an important reason why it can be solemnly recommended by several heavyweight classical furniture industry leaders. For classical furniture lovers and even enthusiasts, after reading the classic works of Wang Shixiang and others, it is very recommended to take time to read this "Classical Furniture Longitudinal Theory".
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Highly recommended and worth collecting
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