Cultural Sustainable Development Strategies of Chinese Traditional Furniture: Taking Ming-Style Furniture for Example

• Published in: Sustainability 2024-09, Vol.16 (17), p.7443
• Main Authors: Xue, Guanlan, Chen, Jinglian, Lin, Zhuozhuang
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Aesthetics; Beauty; Biomimetics; Culture; Design; Dynasties; Furniture; Furniture design; Methods; Morphology; Social aspects; Sustainable development
• ISSN: 2071-1050; 2071-1050
• DOI: 10.3390/su16177443

In view of the gradual decline and near-stagnant crisis of traditional furniture art from the late Qing Dynasty, the article studied the cultural sustainable strategies of Chinese traditional furniture represented by Ming-style furniture, hoping to promote the revitalization of traditional furniture and good inheritance of traditional culture in modern society. Based on the theory of “Methodology of Affairs”, the article proposes that the sustainable strategies of traditional furniture can be understood as a correlation system under the joint action of “internal factors” (shape, function, technology, etc., of furniture) and “external factors” (social environment, economic environment, humanistic environment, etc., in which furniture develops). Starting from the two aspects, the article finally analyzed the improved translation of internal factors in five parts: shape and function, structure and connection, material and process, color and furnishing, decoration and aesthetics, and studied the adaptive changes in external factors from five dimensions: politics, economy, culture, society, and users. The article hopes to help this endangered Chinese traditional furniture art develop in a sustainable direction, and also provide a reference for scholars working in the field of the inheritance and development of traditional culture.