Table

If you understand the etymology of the word "table", you can find its relationship with such concepts as "skeleton" and "truth". And this concerns not only the Russian language: Similar parallels can be seen in other cultures. So the primordial sense of the familiar names of all the furniture is much deeper domestic definitions that we use in everyday life.

The table has a special role in the house, because it is a great mystery eating. No accident that in Christian tradition, one of the most serious misdemeanors were desecrating the table. Tabu, who had in the Middle Ages, sacred meaning, came to us in the rules of etiquette: sitting at the table, not cursing and swearing, based on the tabletop with his elbows and chest, the more so - to sit on it or folding legs. It also symbolized the table and generous land, and the blessed gifts of God, he reminded Europeans of the table of the Last Supper, at which decided the fate of Christ ...

Location guests and members of the household at the table also had (and has to this day) a deep meaning: a round-table of the legendary Arthur were all equal. But the real crown Carla and Louis, sitting at the butt end of a long rectangular table, stressed that its dominant position. Especially since most of their guests did not deign an invitation to the royal table - it was a privilege especially important and distinguished persons. It is even a symbolic function table - consolidation of elected people to communicate. But communication - is finding a common ...

Love and respect to the subject of furniture and expressed a desire to decorate it in every way: carving, inlay, precious textiles - tablecloths, fresh flowers, exquisite dishes ... So, sitting down to a festive table, you know that, in essence, you are making multiple " rites ": Keep your life (eat), combined with close people (communicate) and partook of the beauty (admiring the elegant table).

Well, there are still doubts about the significance kakieto table? ..