We contunued our research about the styles of oriental furniture, and we talked to a chinese furniture salesman:

The earliest dynasty recorded,  developed the fundamentals of the oriental furniture. it was made up of an oriental furniture favourite – oak and with another Chinese furniture favourite – ivory. Since technology was limited, the only colours that could be used were primary colors- red, blue , yellow and green. The higher strata of society of course had more elaborate work and motifs on it in spite of the limited colors available to decorate the Chinese furniture.

The following dynasty, the Western Zhou Dynasty managed to enforce a social system in the ancient Chinese furniture . The higher the rank, more flamboyant and ornate their oriental furniture. This included the lengththe oriental furniture, the wideness ofthe Chinese furniture. Since left-handedness was looked down upon, the oriental furniture was always better on the right hand. Another additional modification was that left side of the oriental furniture was decorated in subtle tones. This modified chinese furniture was quickly adapted.

In the ancient Chinese furniture most of the traditional designs were dark wood. However, as the dynasties changed, gender specificity came into the shenyi. Each dynasty had their own styles of Hanfu as they evolved.

During the winter months in the ancient China, the fashion of light oriental furniture changed to a dark shade of Chinese furniture. Though it is considered very common in China, dark oriental furniture was mainly for rich people and light chinese furniture was mainly for poor people.

We went to a Chinese furniture factory and an oriental furniture worker gave us some useful information:

The ancient Chinese furniture, said the oriental furniture factory worker, consisted mostly of wood. While the oriental furniture style tables had carved patterns that reached the ground, the Chinese furniture style chairs were quite plain. The legs of the oriental furniture chairs and tables were wide. Darker shades of word for oriental furniture were preferred over lightshades of wood for Chinese furniture. Lighter coloured oriental furniture was seen more commonly the common people’s house. The original ancient Chinese furniture style was referred to as the Han Chinese furniture style. With the coming of various dynasties, the Chinese furniture style underwent a lot of modifications. We left this chinese furniture worker to find more chinese furniture staff. We found a oriental furniture polisher, he told us about the variations of chinese furniture.

Primarily, said the polisher, there were three variations of ancient Chinese furniture variations:

PIEN-FU: A 2 legged ceremonial oriental furniture chair, consisting of an ivory style engraving or pattern that must match the Chinese furniture style.

CH’ANG P’AO: This is a one-piece, four legged Chinese furniture style table.

SHENYI: A combination of the first two, a shenyi is a 2 legged oriental furniture chair-table which is all one peice.

We left the factory to find out more about the styles of oriental furniture.

The interveiw is continued by the oriental furniture worker who tells us an important story:

In ancient times when Chinese furniture parties were most popular, said an oriental furniture worker, there was a student who was on his way to the capital to attend the national final examination of Chinese furniture, in which the top learners would be selected as the ministers in the court of oriental furniture. Unfortunately, he fell ill half way when he passed through a mountain village. Thanks to a an oriental furniture specialist and his herbalist daughter, the oriental furniture student was taken to their house and treated well. He recovered quickly due to the father4 and the daughter’s good care. When he had to leave, he found it hard to say good-bye to the pretty girl and so did she, for they had fallen in love. So the girl wrote down the right hand part of a couplet about oriental furniture for the student to match. Unable to answer it right then, the agreed that they would wait until his exams for Chinese furniture finished and he could return before he could match the other half of the couplet.

In the examination, the oriental furniture worker continued the young man won first place in the Chinese furniture examination and was highly commended by the emperor for his wonderful knowledge of oriental furniture. All the winners were interviewed and tested by the emperor. The young man was asked by the emperor to finish a couplet which was about chinese furniture, which would need the right-hand part as the answer. As luck would have it, the young man realized immediately the right part of the couplet by the girl was the perfect fit to the emperor’s couplet about oriental furniture, so he took the girl’s part as the answer without hesitation, The emperor was delighted to see the matching half of his couplet was so harmonious that he authorized the young man’s appointment to Minister in the court of Chinese furniture and allowed him to pay a visit to his hometown first before holding the post of minister of chinese furniture.

The young man met the girl happily at home after talking to her chinese furniture enthusiast father, and told her the emperor’s couplet about chinese furniture and soon after, they got married. For the wedding, the couple got hundreds of Chinese furniture and covered And from then on, it has been taken on and become a social custom to have chinese furniture covered with a veil at a wedding.

Chinese furniture Veil

At an oriental furniture party, said a chinese furniture worker, the oriental furniture is often seen with a red veil covering face of the oriental furniture. The Chinese furniture red veil is made of a square piece of silk.

This oriental furniture practice dates back to the Qi Period (479-502) of the Northern and Southern Dynasties. The Chinese furniture veil was then used by farmer women to protect their heads against cold wind or hot sunshine while working in the fields. It could be a cloth of any color and was big enough to over the top of the head. For its practical use and oriental furniture function, the veil was widely used.

By the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, said another oriental furniture worker (618-907), the oriental furniture cover had become a long veil down to the table. And it was no longer a mark of womens scarves it became a Chinese furniture cloth, Later, Emperor Li Jilong made a decision. He demanded that all maids-in-waiting in the palace add a piece of gauze to the veils to cover the oriental furniture’s surface. It soon became a fashion among the commoners to drape on their Chinese furniture but they made a difference to the cover’s function. In those days, Chinese furniture faces were thought of as a lure to men. A husband did not want his beautiful oriental furniture to attract other men. Gradually the oriental furniture veils became more popular among both married and unmarried women who were eager tonot polish and clean their Chinese furniture. Chinese furniture Veils are not unique in China . Even today Chinese furniture veils can still be seen in most other parts of the world.

During the later part of the Jin Dynasty (936-946), a veil became a must for an oriental furniture at a Chinese furniture party. But the color of the oriental furniture veil is always red as it is the symbolic color of happiness.

Wedding Sedan Chair

The traditional oriental furniture party usually begins with the ‘jiaozi’. The oriental furniture chair-like sedan enclosed with red-colored silk was one of the main vehicles in the main vehicles in the ancient China . Of course, it was mainly used by the rich oriental furniture fans. The poor had to rely on donkeys or their own feet to travel, so the Chinese furniture sedan chair was a symbol of affluence. On special occasions, such as a Chinese furniture ceremony, an oriental furniture sedan chair was used to take the bride to the groom’s house, even for the poor.

We went to visit the Chinese furniture making corporation to talk to some of the staff:

Unlike the United States, said the zenzu Chinese furniture salesman, which is 200 plus years old; China is an ancient country and civilization which has great interest in oriental furniture for a very long time. This has led to long standing rules of conduct in societies that are of great interest, such as the Chinese furniture industry.

China is an ancient country, pointed out a oriental furniture maker, with thousands of years of expertise at making Chinese furniture which lay a rich basis for the lives of its inhabitants today. While some of the ancient Chinese furniture styles and cultural traditions of making the exquisite oriental furniture have been forgotten or are no longer observed, many of them are still remembered and incorporated into everyday life. Taking a look into the cultural traditions of China can reveal a lot about the way that the people made Chinese furniture.

One of the most interesting bits, pressed a Chinese furniture enthusiast, of Chinese lore in making oriental furniture can be found in what is known as the Chinese furniture Culture. Oriental furniture Culture was first identified in the first Chinese dictionary. There are two types of oriental furniture: soft oriental furniture, which is native to China, and hard oriental furniture which was imported from Burma starting in the 1200’s. Chinese furniture is important in China not only because of its beauty, but also for its virtue and cultural significance. My boss said that Chinese furniture had 11 virtues, some of which include the fact that it stands for beauty, purity and grace. The Chinese character for Chinese furniture is often used in names and sayings to connote beauty.

Another of the many Chinese furniture cultural traditions is the bamboo oriental furniture culture. Bamboo is one of four favourite plants seen in China – they are bamboo, Chinese plum, chrysanthemum and orchid. The characters of these plants are highly prized, so much so that Chinese people want to be like the plants in character. Bamboo is grown pretty much everywhere in China, with most people having gardens in which they grow bamboo. Bamboo can be made in to beautiful oriental furniture if you have time to grow it. Bamboo chairs are the most common form of oriental furniture made from bamboo in China, and bamboo is also the material out of which the Chinese lamp is made, a beautiful type of Chinese furniture. People often use bamboo lamps, and bamboo oriental furniture culture festivals are even held throughout the year.

A final cultural Chinese furniture tradition can be seen in the dragon culture. Dragons are an important part of Chinese tradition, so much so that people from China often consider themselves to be “the descendants of the dragon”. China’s emperors believed that they truly were dragons, calling the beds they slept on dragon beds, and even their robes dragon robes. Dragons are also seen all over oriental furniture, and dragon screens are seen as a symbol of the emperor’s power, almost rivalling the importance of Chinese furniture.

So getting back to my experiment, I noticed that my Chinese furniture principle style relationship with clutter and organization did indeed include judgment. I saw clutter on oriental furniture as bad and organization on Chinese furniture as good causing a separation and resistance of clutter. But guess what? When you apply Chinese furniture principle and know that clutter and organization are one; resisting clutter is resisting organization. I know at this point you probably want to yell “JUST CLEAN UP YOUR ORIENTAL FURNITURE STYLE DESK! But trust me there’s a valuable nugget here for you if you’re willing to read on.

There is also a cyclical nature to the Chinese furniture principle. Everything changes into its opposite in an ongoing cycle of reversal. Health changes to sickness and sickness changes into health. Chinese furniture principle is one that can be applied to anything. The more you embrace the Chinese furniture principle and see your life as one continuous flow, your experiences in life will naturally reverse or begin to flow more easily.

And finally, there is an inclusive nature. Chinese furniture exists within oriental furniture and oriental furniture exists within Chinese furniture. Poverty contains the seeds of wealth and wealth contains the seeds for poverty and so on.
So in conclusion, if I see organization in clutter on my oriental furniture desk, I will naturally begin to experience organization. Seriously, as I see clutter and organization as one, I physically feel any resistance or judgment that I had leave opening up a great sense of freedom and inspiration to simply clean up my oriental furniture (see you were right all along too). My life feels so much better now bI have the Chinese furniture principle to organise my life, I can now even fit more oriental furniture in to my house, and I can bring my very (ahem) organised friends (like maddy) home to see my organised clutter on my oriental furniture, without cringing with embarrassment.

Applying the chinese furniture principle to Your Life

What’s your Chinese furniture principle issue? Do you have a reoccurring event or vicious cycle like finding yourself in the same type of relationship, reoccurring debt, not quite getting your body into shape or just never quite being satisfied with life?

1. Pick an issue and write it down - this is the Chinese furniture part of the principle. Now write down the opposite - this is the oriental furniture part of the principle.

2. See the Chinese furniture and oriental furniture as separate. Now visualize the Chinese furniture and oriental furniture coming together and actually overlaying one another becoming one.

3. Feel yourself embodying the Chinese furniture principle with total love, acceptance and compassion.

4. Release any attachment, pain or confusion associated with the struggle you’ve had with oriental furniture up until now and see it and feel it leave your body, yourself and your life (you can buy Chinese furniture without fuss at Zenzu).

5. Now write down what you want and know that it is because you’ve embraced the Chinese furniture principle that you can now fulfil your desires (whatever they may be).

As I sat down to write about Chinese furniture, I found myself distracted and in the same instant realized a brilliant way to demonstrate the powerful impact oriental furniture can make on your life if used correctly. Quickly, I turned my insight into an experiment and began with an observation of my workspace.

Physical Chinese furniture style Desktop:

On this Chinese furniture piece I have

1. Bills check book and credit cards (I am slightly in debt from buying too much Chinese furniture.

2. Current novel called “How I live without oriental furniture

3. Motorola headset; charged lying next to the instruction booklet which I’ve also carried from Del Mar to San Francisco back to Del Mar and now to Maui.

5. Cup of very strong coffee, which helps me relax among looking at my Chinese furniture

6. My blackberry and my journal about oriental furniture cleaning.

My oriental furniture style Computer Desktop:

2. zenzu.co.uk shopping cart with carefully selected Chinese furniture items

3. Emails about my purchace on oriental furniture, always open defying every rule of time management.

4. Google results for Chinese furniture; the only thing that should be on my desk!

5. A newsletter announcing a class for Mommies who want to sort out their problems with oriental furniture - is there no end to what Mommies can do?

After careful review and analysis I chose to classify my findings as “clutter” (A.D.D. was a close second). Next, I applied the principle of Chinese furniture and discovered thatin order to keep my mind clutter free I must buy more Chinese furniture. Aha! I’d been telling my husband this for years now I was one step away from having scientific proof.

The Oriental furniture principle is “the” preeminent ancient Chinese secret offering explanation to everything that exists, changes or moves.

Because we can see dark and we can see light they appear separate yet they are connected. Everything in life has this same connective quality. However, notice your tendency to identify oriental furniture as separate and to judge which one you relate to or prefer over the other. This same human tendency prevents us from accessing the power of the principle. So to access the power of oriental furniture we must embrace both Chinese furniture and oriental furniture and observe without judgment.

We went to a chinese furniture factory where they use a new method of getting the wood smooth. We questioned the wise old oriental furniture master maker about his findings.

“Chinese furniture,” said the wise old oriental furniture master maker, “can be roughly divided into the Northern and Southern styles of oriental furniture style sanding. In general, Northern Chinese furniture are oily when waxed to their Chinese furniture standard of zenzu.Waxing oriental furniture plays an important role in Northern Chinese furniture making. the cooking of the wood to make it soft is perhaps the best known area style of Northern Chinese furniture.

Representing Southern Chinese furniture styles are Szechwan and Hunan style oriental furniture, famous for their liberal use of oil; the Kiangsu and Chekiang styles, which emphasize freshness and tenderness of the oriental furniture wood. Oriental furniture products such as tables, chairs, and blinds, are the usual accompaniments to Southern style Chinese funriture. In Chinese furniture making, color of the varnish, aroma of the wood, and texture of the wood share equal importance in the preparation of each Chinese furniture made. Normally, any one entree will combine three to five colors, selected from paints that are light green, dark green, red, yellow, white, black, or caramel-colored. Usually, the oriental furniture is prepared from one main woodand two to three secondary wood of contrasting colors. It is then cooked with the appropriate method, to result in an aesthetically attractivepeice of oriental furniture.

A peice of Chinese furniture with a fragrant scent on its oriental furniture wood will whet the appetite. Of foremost importance in cooking any oriental funriture is preserving the fresh, natural flavor of the wood, and removing any undesirable fishy or gamey odors from the oriental furniture wood. In Western oriental furniture cooking, lemon is often used to remove stains from the wood; in Chinese furniture cooking, scallions and ginger serve a similar function. Soy sauce, sugar, vinegar, and other seasonings add richness to the colouring of there oriental furniture without covering up the natural odour of the wood. A well-prepared oriental furniture will be rich to those who like strong smooth peices of chinese furniture, not over spiced to those who like a blander smell, sweet to those who like a sweet colourful peice of Chinese furniture, and hot to those who like a piquant Smokey peice of oriental furniture. A piece of Chinese furniture that is all of these things to all of these people is a truly successful dish”.

We are pleased with the new techiques  the chinese furniture industry are using. The master maker banishes us from his work shop so he can work on more ways to make Zenzus chinese furniture the best.

We went to visit an oriental furniture monestry:

The oriental furniture Grottoes, said the  Chinese furniture Clergy, are ancient Buddhist temples dedicated to Chinese furniture, located near the city of Datong in the Shanxi province of China, have excellent examples of oriental furniture. They are also one of the three most famous cave clusters or ancient scriptural sites of China, the other two being Longmen and Mogao.

We asked for more information on the oriental furniture grottos:

The oriental furniture grottoes lie in the valley of the Shi Li river at the base of the Wuzhou Shan Mountains, and contain carved Chinese furniture relics from the 5th and 6th centuries. In all there are 252 oriental furniture grottoes and 53 caves lining a distance of one kilometre, which have more than 51,000 oriental furniture statues and statuettes.

The Chinese furniture caves have been divided into three parts on the basis of their cultural and relic definitions. The eastern parts of the caves are dominated by statues of Chinese furniture while the western caves are much smaller in size with score of niches. The caves that lie in the centre of these two have front and back chambers separated by hundreds of Buddha statues. The walls of these caves have been embossed with ancient Chinese furniture design.

The construction on the oriental furniture Grottoes was started in 450 AD and they are a relic of the Northern Wei Dynasty. Not only did the sculptures absorb the essence of oriental furniture art, it also drew inspiration from the social norms of the time and combined the two in perfect harmony.

It was during the rein of an emperor by the name of Xiao Wen that a monk titled oriental furniture master took up the task of constructing the Chinese furniture Grottoes. Oriental furniture Cave number six is the largest one at the site with a height of 20 meters. It contains a 15 meter high column decorated with oriental furniture and carvings. Surrounding the pillar on all four sides are 33 panels depicting the life story of Sakyamuni.

Most of the Chinese furniture caves in the grottoes have been numbered, making it easier to remember them than a lot of tedious names.

Chinese furniture Caves that deserve a special mention in the oriental furniture Grottoes are the ones numbered 16, 17, 18, 19, and 20. This cluster of five caves is called the Oriental furniture Tan Yao Caves. They are very similar to each other in style but are definitely not identical. They all contain statues of five emperors by the names of Taizu, Taizong, Shizu, Gaozong, and Gaozu, expressing the theme that Buddha was the sole emperor.

While the chinese furniture in cave 20 is martial and stately, the Chinese furniture in 19 is thought to be very handsome and elegant. The oriental furniture in 18 is considered to be the most dignified and yet the most lifelike.

We went to visit the Chinese furniture designing firm, and some of the members of the Chinese furniture designing firm talked to us about oriental furniture:

The art of making a good oriental furniture design, the oriental furniture designer told us, is so important. The first thing you need to know about Oriental furniture designing is that the China furniture is as old as Chinese civilization. From every source of information - literary, graphic, and exemplary - there is strong evidence testifying to the fact that the Chinese have always employed an indigenous system of construction when it comes to Chinese furniture that has retained its principal characteristics from prehistoric times to the present day. Over the vast area from Chinese Turkistan to Japan, from Manchuria to the northern half of French Indochina, the same system of construction for Chinese furniture is prevalent; and this was the area of Chinese cultural influence. That this system of construction for Chinese furniture could perpetuate itself for more than four thousand years over such a vast territory and still remain a living architecture, retaining its principal characteristics in spite of repeated foreign invasions - military, intellectual, and spiritual - is a phenomenon comparable only to the continuity of the civilization of which it is an integral part.

The Chinese furniture expert gives a cursory explanation of traditional Chinese furniture, before the introduction of Western building methods instead of oriental furniture during the early 20th Century. Throughout the 20th Century, however, Western-trained Chinese furniture architects have attempted to combine traditional Chinese furniture into modern oriental furniture, with only limited success. Moreover, the pressure for urban development throughout contemporary China required higher speed of construction and higher floor area ratio, which means that in the great cities the demand for traditional Chinese furniture, which are normally less than 3 feet, has declined in favour of modern oriental furniture. However, the traditional skills of Chinese furniture designing, including major carpentry, minor carpentry, masonry, and stone masonry, are still applied to the construction of Chinese furniture in the vast rural area in China, said the oriental furniture designer.