Treadmill was a popular big bed in Ming and Qing Dynasties. It is unique in that there is a cabin around the bed. From the outside, it's like putting a bed on a closed platform. The platform protrudes two or three feet from the front of the bed. The four corners of the platform are upright, surrounded by wooden fences, and some have windows on both sides, making the bed look like a small room as a whole.
The flat ground two or three feet in front of the bed looks like a cloister. Although it is small, people can go in. People walk into the cloister just as they walk into the room. There is a pedal in the middle of the cloister, and small furniture such as tables and stools can be placed on both sides to put sundries. The step-by-step bed is very big, and there is a relatively independent and private activity space in front. This kind of bed is mostly used in the south, because there are many mosquitoes and flies in the south, and mosquito nets can be installed.
The common wood of step bed is nanmu, beech, rosewood, rosewood and so on. Common techniques include carving, through carving, relief and so on. Some beds are full mortise and tenon structure, which can be disassembled, and many beds are anti-corrosion and insect-proof. The bench is pure in color, exquisite in workmanship and elegant in style, which shows the superb production technology of people at that time and the high quality of life of the rich.
Qing dynasty furniture is different from Ming dynasty furniture. Generally speaking, the explanation in Qing dynasty is simple and complicated. Ming style modeling wins, and Qing style decoration is good. After the middle of Qing dynasty, wingwood, rosewood, rosewood and nanmu were gradually used, and new furniture was mostly made of rosewood and mahogany. In the early Ming Dynasty, furniture styles were varied and often changed.
Broaching history
The bench was produced in the late Ming Dynasty. The early bench was a colonnade bench, and the later bench was a typical bench. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, officials were corrupt, usually extravagant, vying for power and profits, and building luxury houses, so the phenomenon of suites in rooms appeared in the interior layout. Treadmill was very common in wealthy families in the south of the Yangtze River in the late Ming Dynasty. At that time, it took thousands of man-hours to make a trampoline, which was cumbersome and bulky. It is also called eight-step bed and step bed. It is said that when people were making wedding beds at that time, craftsmen and masters invited hundreds of immortals to pray for more children and grandchildren, indicating that they had broken through the category of furniture and become a symbol of family reproduction.
Treadmill embodies the introverted characteristics of Ming furniture. The ancients said that "the dark room in the bright hall" pays attention to privacy. Although the trampoline is used indoors, it is like an independent hut with a corridor and a toilet. The cloister in front of the bed is similar to the cloister in front of the ancient house, and the surrounding walls are like the walls of the house. Although it looks small, it is comprehensive and convenient to dress up. The whole big bed is a miniature version of an ancient building, which means a house in a house and a cover in a cover. This is the spirit of the ancients, closed, independent and "inhuman", which is absolutely different from the straightforwardness and openness of beds in western and modern furniture. Modern beds are frank and have no privacy.
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