Abstract
Furniture is kind of a symbol or a system composed of symbols, and the profound cultural meaning of what furniture contains can be expressed through the use of furniture symbols, including the regional attributes and cultural connotations of furniture. Hakka furniture is a member of the traditional furniture, with its distinctive style and extremely high artistic and aesthetic value. In this paper, from the perspective of semiotics, using Pierce’s classification of semiotics, combined with the characteristics of Hakka furniture, Hakka furniture symbols to interpret its hidden behind the social significance and aesthetic value.
Highlights
Background of Hakka furniture "Hakka" is a branch of the Han nationality
Hakka folk art was developed on the basis of the mainstream culture of the Han nationality. about 1000 years ago, the people in the cultural core area fled to the mountainous areas in the South in order to avoid the war and settled down. in the course of settling in Fujian, Guangdong and Jiangxi, they absorbed and integrated the local cultural characteristics, and gradually formed and developed
The traditional Hakka family retained a lot furniture from the Ming and Qing dynasty .The sources of these furniture are mainly from two aspects: Some of them were imported by officials or businessmen from other places, and others were made by the traditional Hakka craftsmen using local raw materials in the area where the Hakka people live
Summary
The symbolic representation of the modeling form in Hakka furniture is mainly decorative symbol, functional indicator symbol and layout symbol, which constitute the Ming-style Chair Furniture with rich modeling after a certain combination and arrangement, and convey a wide range of implication. It should be noted that the meaning conveyed by each symbol needs to be considered in furniture as a entirety
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