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In the long evolutionary history of mankind, stone tools have dominated as the main production tools. Stone tools were used by primitive people as tools for hunting and defense, thus maintaining a dominant position in agriculture, fishing and hunting production, and food processing. After humans entered the civilized era, stone tools developed from simple production tools to handicrafts, leaving behind exquisite stone works in human history. Through the study of Chinese stone tools, this book reveals the basic laws and overall appearance of the development of stone tools, and highlights the artistic achievements and characteristics of the times, thereby showing readers the long history and glorious achievements of the development of stone tools in my country.

This book outlines the development history of Chinese furniture, the characteristics of furniture in different periods, and its relationship with social and cultural forms. On the basis of furniture classification, this paper gives a systematic and comprehensive explanation of the history of Chinese furniture from both vertical and horizontal aspects, and proposes two development stages of Chinese furniture history due to different living styles - early classical furniture and late classical furniture. Early classical furniture began to flourish since the Warring States Period, represented by Chu-style furniture and later Han-style furniture. Late classical furniture reached its peak in the Ming Dynasty, represented by Ming-style furniture and Qing-style furniture from the late Ming Dynasty to the mid-Ming Dynasty. This book displays the development of Chinese furniture in the past dynasties in the form of pictures and texts, and reflects the basic context and main laws of the development of Chinese furniture as comprehensively and clearly as possible, in order to enable readers to have a more comprehensive understanding of the rise and fall of Chinese furniture history.