In "The display of Liu Guojun’s donation of mahogany furniture", we mainly highlight the famous patriotic businessman--Liu Guojun in China and the mahogany furniture he donated.
    Mr. Liu Guojun was born in Fu Jing Jiang county of Changzhou in 1887 Changzhou. His family was very poor from his infancy. He was depending on being the apprenticeship at the areas such as Benniu and Butou etc. of Changzhou and being the salesman to accumulate the capital, and gradually embarked on the road of Industrial plan. Experiencing 50 years of winds and rains, he had toured extensively all over the whole China, even at home and abroad, not only firstly creating machine printing technology in Changzhou but also successful trial-manufactured the Velveteen and corduroy, becoming one of the founders of modern machinery industry in Changzhou, making the great contribution for the establishment and development of knitting dye industry of China’s modern nation.
    After the founding of People's Republic of China, Liu Guojun actively joined the establishment of New China, and took the lead in implementing public-private partnerships, known as "red capitalists" .Due to the outstanding performance, he was elected as vice governor of Jiangsu Province in 1956. Because of yearning and loving the entrepreneurial base and the second hometown, Changzhou, Liu Guojun donated a number of cultural relics including 96 mahogany furniture to the museum in Changzhou in 1975. He died in 1978 in Nanjing, at age 92.
    Redwoods are the hardwood trees with fine texture, preferred by the people from the late Qing Dynasty. The number of mahogany furniture Liu Guojun donated is with exquisite workmanship and beautiful decoration, taking the old mahogany as the main material, most of which are in the end of Qing Dynasty. Its integrity has rarely been seen in the country due to the full range. According to the typical residential layout style in Jiangnan in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, we recovered the three life scenes including the auditorium, the study and bedrooms.
Quality furniture description:
    Redwood fauteuils with the fretwork of lucidums and marbles: the fauteuil is one kind of armchairs and it is called “fauteuils” because of its larger size, dignified and luxurious. The biggest characteristics of these fauteuils are with the sculpture of lucidums on the whole. It is a legend that the lucidum is the immortal grass and we are to longevity after having it, therefore, we prefer to use the lucidum to be the implied meaning of luck in traditional crafts in China. In addition, the textures of marbles embedded in the round scene look like the degawa, trees and fountains, which reflects the emotion of the host, that is, the owner has reposed the green mountain and beautiful water.
    Mahogany screen porcelain painting with Baqu embedded: This mahogany screen porcelain painting embedded on is made of The Republic of China. The porcelain plate painting embedded is painted by the famous painter-Wang Yeting-- at the end of Qing Dynasty, and Wang Ye Ting was one of “the eight friends on mount pearl” in Jingdezhen, born in Leping of Jiangxi Province, good at soft colour of blue and green landscape. This porcelain painting of the screen is a imitation of the painter’s-Wang shigu’s-in the early Qing Dynasty. In addition, we can see the capability from green colors, the scenery variability and grand daring, the variable art of composition and splendid and beautiful scenery in Jiangnan. This screen is with the elegant style, and if placed indoors, it can create a cosy living environment, at the same time, highlight the indoor cultural atmosphere, Simple and elegant, and the quality taste of the masters.
    The big redwood screen bed with the relief of western world patterns: this mahogany screen bed with the relief of Western world patterns, called "Lohan beds" in the North, is a kind of sitting appliances. On the screen it is with high relief of ornaments like shields and grapes etc., on the both sides of the edge of the screen frame it is decorated the lions playing a ball, and on the behind screen it is carved a mighty eagle taking off. These typical western decoration make the whole bed diffuse the heavy European flavor, reflecting the a profound impact of western civilization on China from the end of Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China, and is the typical work of mahogany furniture in the way--"Chinese beds prepared like the western beds”.