The carved patterns of mahogany furniture, from life, from imagination, from stories, etc., are rich in materials, diversified in forms, and rich in expression. Looking at the carved patterns of mahogany furniture, most of them express people's pursuit and yearning for a better life, praying for blessings, auspicious, poly treasure, health and so on. What are the types of engraving patterns on mahogany furniture?
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Carved patterns of plants and flowers. This kind of pattern is often based on the prototype in life, through the homophony, as well as the growth characteristics of the plant and its own attributes, to give meaning. Such as pine, roll grass pattern, passion flower pattern, plum orchid bamboo chrysanthemum and so on. Taking plum, Orchid, bamboo and chrysanthemum as an example, these four plants are praised as "four gentlemen in flowers", which shows the literati's perception of time order and the meaning of life. Plum blossom, noble pride, orchid elegant ethereal, bamboo modest festival, chrysanthemum cold Yan Qing Zhen. Chinese people load a piece of their true feelings in a flower, a grass, a stone and a wood, so that flowers, trees, grass and stones break away from or expand the original meaning, and become a symbol of personality metaphor, their common point is self-improvement. Flowers, on behalf of elegance, nobility, is a symbol of noble character.
Animal decoration is also the homophony of the animal name, combined with the characteristics of a certain part of the animal, such as bat pattern, pattern, sheep pattern, deer pattern, dragon pattern, phoenix pattern, fish pattern, etc. Bat, is the use of homonyms, the bat in the bat as "fu", meaning the meaning of happiness, if there are five bats, it means five blessings. And, for the benevolence of the beast, is a symbol of good luck, can bring people children, in the folk there is a saying of sending children.
Text, geometric graphics subject matter, to give auspicious meaning. Such as back word pattern, swastika pattern, longevity word, if you take a longevity word as, there are five bats around, there is the meaning of five blessings holding longevity.
Fairy stories, and the history of celebrity fun for the theme, the most famous for the eight Immortals. The eight immortals are divided into the eight immortals and the eight immortals. The eight immortals of the Ming Dynasty refer to the images of eight immortals, each showing their powers. The hidden eight immortals refer to the treasures held by the eight immortals. Among them, the gourd of Tie Guai Li can make medicine, and it has the meaning of saving sentient beings; Lu Dongbin sword can wei town group demons, fans can bring back the dead; Fish drum can be used for astrological divination, efficent life; The flute is the power of all creatures; Yin and Yang board, fairy board God singing, make all sound silent; Blue and the flower basket wide through Shen Ming; He Xiangu's lotus, can cultivate the body quiet Zen. There are many kinds of fairy stories, and when you look at some ancient furniture, you will find it.
There are also some engraving patterns, which are combined with the main body of several materials, such as two dragons holding longevity, three sheep Kaitai, Phoenix wear and so on. There is a combination of Chinese and western patterns, such as cold spoon leaves, passion flower patterns, large shells, rose and so on. The combination of Chinese and western decoration, clever natural, rich meaning.