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Ming-style furniture and the Renaissance-style furniture is a typical representative of the culture of the Chinese and Western furniture, but also the culture of Chinese and Western classical furniture outstanding manifestation. They are roughly the same historical era, but due to the geographical environment, national characteristics, as well as Chinese and Western cultures thought different, its furniture, art and culture with different features. Thesis along with their respective cultural context, longitudinal analysis and comparison of the similarities and differences in the two entities and cultural level of Chinese and Western furniture, try to find two different regions, different nationalities, different cultures in different historical conditions and cultural context, showing complete different furniture culture aesthetic characteristics. The study applied a comparative study tactics. Entities comparative level, targeted commence furniture varieties, shapes, materials, decoration, craft and structure compared to draw conclusions: the culture of Chinese and Western furniture due to the natural environment, lifestyle, level of science and technology, cultural concepts of different formation different physical attributes. Entity on the basis of comparison, the paper focused on the cultural level of depth from the religious consciousness of the culture of Chinese and Western furniture, philosophy, aesthetic awareness compared to further demonstrate the different cultural background to convey the cultural and ideological characteristics. Religious consciousness, Ming furniture influenced by traditional Chinese culture, showed Confucianism as the core, Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism influence each other, mutual penetration of the situation. Renaissance style furniture show to break the religious shackles, based rational thinking human concept; Ming-style furniture in philosophical thinking, emotional and cultural characteristics exhibit focuses on experience, the Renaissance style is reflected with a spirit of exploration rational cultural connotations; aesthetic sense, the former represents a simple and elegant aesthetic ideas internal pursuit in the harmonious beauty aesthetic taste and the materialization of charisma aesthetic ideal. The latter showed the aesthetic concept of Furama beauty, external beauty of form and highlight the humanist aesthetic ideal explore. Furniture culture as part of the cultural system, and other cultural coexistence one generation, development must be subject to the influence of other cultures. The paper is a brief analysis of several related factors that affect the furniture culture. Comparison with the aesthetic of the Renaissance-style furniture of Ming furniture, summarize the same period, but the nature and characteristics of the different regions typical of both the Chinese and Western furniture style characteristics, draw each with cultural differences and aesthetic characteristics. However, even if there are huge differences between the two, but also some of the common development of the objective laws: the furniture culture has a certain dynamic in the process of human development, with the progress of the times, will not stay in a state and a process, we should capitalize on this trend, times, the furniture culture to considerable development.
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