中国古典家具屏风英语介绍

中国古典家具屏风英语介绍

Screens date back to China during the Eastern Zhou

[1][2]Dynasty period (771-256 BCE). These were initially one-panel

[3]screens in contrast to folding screens. Folding screens were

[4]invented during the Han Dynasty (206 BCE – 220 CE). Depictions

of those folding screens have been found in Han Dynasty era

[1]tombs, such as one in Zhucheng, Shandong Province.

A folding screen was often decorated with beautiful art, major

themes included mythology, scenes of palace life, and nature. It is

often associated with intrigue and romance in the literature of China as, for example, a young lady in love could take a curious

[1][2]peek hidden from behind a folding screen. An example of such

a thematic occurrence of the folding screen would be in the

[5]classical novel Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin. The

folding screen was a subject that had often reoccurred

[6]in Tang literature. The Tang poet Li He (790–816) wrote the Song

of the Screen, describing a folding screen of a newly-wed

[6]couple. The folding screen surrounded the bed of the young couple, its twelve panels was adorned with butterflies alighted on China pink flowers (an allusion to lovers), and had silver hinges

[6]resembling glass coins.

Folding screens were originally made from wooden panels and painted

on lacquered surfaces, eventually folding screens made

[3]from paper orsilk became popular too. Even though folding

screens were known to have been used since antiquity, it became

[7]rapidly popular during theTang Dynasty (618–907). During

the Tang Dynasty, folding screens were considered ideal

ornaments for many painters to display

[2][3]theirpaintings and calligraphy on. Many artists painted on

paper

[2]or silk and applied it onto the folding screen. There were two

distinct artistic folding screens mentioned in historical literature of the era. One of it was known as the huaping (Chinese: 畫屏;

literally "painted folding screen") and the other was known as the shuping (Chinese: 書屏; literally "calligraphy folding

[3][7]screen"). It was not uncommon for people to commission folding screens from artists, such as from Tang-era painter Cao Ba

[2]or Song-era painter Guo Xi. The landscape paintings on folding

screens reached its height during the Song

[1]Dynasty (960–1279). The lacquer techniques for the Coromandel

screens, which is known as kuancai (literally "incised colors"),

[8]emerged during the late Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) and was

applied to folding screens to create dark screens incised, painted,

[9]and inlaid with art of mother-of-pearl, ivory, or other materials. Up

to around 30 layers of lacquer could be used, each layer could