Study On The Bed And Couch Of Modern China

Bed, as a large furniture is reclusive and it is canËŠt be seen very often. Because of thespecific characteristics of itself and the influence of traditional culture, so itËŠs very little toshow its unique charm. For the unique and complex historical background, and the Chinesefurniture have received the impact of western culture, at the same time working people createa large number of excellent furniture between Chinese and western, strongly reflecting thetimes feeling. And the bed as one of the important furniture, it has also deeply branded thetimes feeling.This article starting from the bed, put the focus on the modern in the late Qing Dynasty tothe Republic of China which is a century to the time inside the bed itself, to show the changingof the bad itself and the habits of the people who used.At the first time the Chinese sit on the ground, then appeared the bed and couch and theybrought a lot of benefits and convenience to the people. Gradually the bed and couch have thedifferent using. The bad is for sleep and the couch became the main furniture to receive theguest. Until the Ming and Qing Dynasties, they become the major furniture in the life the time.After the Opium War in1840, china was forced to open customs, so many coastal citieswere opened one by one. The big powers indroduced opium, western industrial civilization,Western thought and western living habits. Considering coastal city as the center, the prosperityof concessions gave Chinese people chances to contact with the western world, includingwestern economic, cultural and other various effects. Besides, it rapidly changed the backwardof China and the ignorant of people's thought. But even those, beds and other furniture, in theQing Dynasty when society was ruled by Western elements, were protected very well, just likemany Chinese traditional thoughts. Until the fall of the Qing Dynasty, when the Republic ofChina was established, the effection of western style to Chinese furniture reached a peak. Thetransform of bed was most obvious that such a huge thing was simplified into a small one, justas shelf bed into piece bed of Republic of China. Behind all these changes of bed, it's theestablishent and development of modern architecture in China. Comparing whit bed, couch wasless changed after Republic of China as it preserved the style and decoration of the QingDynasty. Besides, due to the change of people's living habits and the inconsistency withmodern interior decoration, the traditional couch was gradually replaced by the modern one,sofa. As a result, Chinese traditional couch was less used in nowadays.