The aesthetic connotation of the furnishing art of literati garden architecture in the Late Ming Dynasty

Abstract

After the late Ming Dynasty, Chinese garden art became mature, and representative works introducing garden art such as The Craft of Gardens, Treatise on Superfluous Things and Occasional Notes of Idle Emotions emerged, reflecting the life attitude and aesthetic interest of the literati class in the late Ming Dynasty. As an important supplement to garden and architectural art, furnishing art plays an important role in creating artistic atmosphere. Based on the analysis of the above three classic works and some garden cases, it is found that the selection of furnishings by ancient Chinese literati is reflected in the four aspects of ‘the appearance of furnishings’, ‘being practical’, ‘advocating the ancient and elegant design’ and ‘vivid artistic conception’, reflecting their pursuit of utensils, functional, spiritual and connotation beauty in the furnishing art. Then on this basis, the development path of Chinese style interior furnishing design under the contemporary social background is explored, providing reference for the inheritance and development of Chinese interior furnishing art.