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New Chinese English

New Chinese English: new chinese style.

New Chinese style is an interpretation of the cultural significance of traditional Chinese style in the context of the current era. It is a contemporary design based on a full understanding of contemporary Chinese culture. New Chinese style inherits the essence of traditional Chinese style and creates innovation through dialogue and collision with modern trends. "New" cannot be understood completely literally, but should be understood as contemporary Chinese culture.

Traditional culture is a kind of national culture that reflects the characteristics and style of the nation and is a collection of civilization evolution. It is the overall representation of various ideological cultures and conceptual forms in the history of the nation. China’s traditional culture is based on Confucianism, as well as Taoism, Buddhism and other cultural forms.

The new Chinese style continues the concept of home accessories in the Ming and Qing Dynasties in design, refining the classic elements, simplifying and enriching them, making the furniture more concise and elegant in form, and at the same time breaking the traditional Chinese space layout. Cultural ideas such as hierarchy and superiority are also more relaxed and natural in terms of space color matching.

Chinese culture in the 1980s was a hybrid culture: tradition and anti-tradition, which conflicted and penetrated each other, constituted the composition of Chinese culture. Including realism and modernism (avant-garde, modernism), agricultural civilization and industrial civilization, local traditional culture and exotic modern culture, radical liberalism and stubborn conservatism, etc.

Key points of home decoration:

Although traditional new Chinese style furniture is mostly made of wooden materials, the colors are mainly imitation rosewood and rosewood. The walls can be white, or you can choose off-white, beige or sand colors to match the dark brown furniture. The most representative furniture is coffee tables, floor lamps, armchairs, window lattice, screens, moon doors, etc.

In addition to foliage plants such as pothos, phoenix bamboo, and dripping Guanyin, tree sculptures, bonsai, etc. are also good choices. The new Chinese style is not a pure stacking of elements, but through the understanding of traditional culture, combining modern elements and traditional elements to create things with traditional charm based on the aesthetic needs of modern people, so that traditional art can be suitable in today's society manifestation.