The Discourse System of the Relationship Between Furnishing"Utensils"and"Using Utensils"in the Song Dynasty
The Song Dynasty was a transitional period in ancient Chinese furnishing art,during which furnishing spaces became systematically regulated and their functions increasingly specialized.This study further distinguishes furnishing"utensils"and"using utensils"from the traditional categories of Song furniture and explores their discourse system of relationships within spatial perception.By analyzing images and textual materials,it reconstructs the two-dimensional combination relationships and three-dimensional structural relationships of furnishing elements,uncovering conventions such as"focality"and"bounded regions"in combinations and"resonance"and"elasticity"in structures.These features reflect spatial coherence and emotional connection.The study identifies three furnishing patterns:the fitting pattern dominated by group cognition,the dependent pattern derived from spatial experience,and the pattern driven by sensory-object empathy.It not only responds to the Song aesthetic concept of"exquisite connotation"but also offers innovative perspectives for the connotative and extensional development of contemporary furnishing design.
Song DynastyFurnishing spaceRelational discourseCreation conceptUtensilsFurnishing art