Pillow from which dynasty began to have, why do people use it, what is the legend or allusion?

Primitive times, people with stones or bundles of grass, etc. will head high to sleep, probably "because of the hills and dug holes and place" when the more primitive pillow. To the Warring States, the pillow has been quite elaborate. 1957, in Henan Xinyang Changtai off a Warring States Chu tomb, unearthed a well-preserved lacquered wooden bed, the bed on the bamboo pillow. China's predecessors on the pillow quite a study. The famous historian of the Northern Song Dynasty, Sima Guang, with a small round wood as a pillow, sleep, as long as the slightest movement, the head from the pillow slipped, will immediately wake up, wake up and continue to read, he named the pillow "police pillow".

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A sleep tool, it is generally believed that the pillow is the people for the comfort of sleep and the filler, and from modern medical research to recognize the human spine, from the front is a straight line, but the side of the view is a curve with four physiological bends, in order to protect the normal physiological curvature of the neck, to maintain the normal physiological activities of the people when they are asleep, people must sleep Pillow. Pillow - history

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How did ancient people use pillows in bed?

Sleeping is mostly inseparable from the pillow, for the pillow, the ancient world is especially careful, just look at the name, than the modern pillow many more doorway to.

The emperor used the pillow, with gold silk for the face, top jade frame, elegant, known as the "Jade Pillow". Wealthy people to Su silk fabric, built-in selected cotton, was square, is called "silk pillow" or "square pillow"; the big girls do not go out of the two doors, in the boudoir to learn to embroider, practicing poetry and painting, leisure time naturally do not forget to do articles on the pillow, it is said that It is said that when the young lady in the pillow rusted to the phoenix, to be married and then rust mandarin ducks, to the nanmu for the frame, called "nan pillow", so there is a "knot hair *** pillow mat" poetry. In ancient times, the details of the pillow love affair is really not much, because the pillow is almost knot hair did not knot hair are in the **** pillow when the people lingering witness.

Ancient women will not only marry embroidered "mandarin ducks pillow" to bring to the husband's home, in the time of cheating also did not forget to bring their own pillow to go. Cao Zhi on his sister-in-law Zhen's pining for a disaster, and Zhen's also talented, suave Cao Zhi's heart, but ethics and morality is a hurdle ah, the two to step through is not an easy task. So the two had to dream of romance to go, "bright-eyed ...... Lingbo micro-steps, Luo stockings raw dust, if flying if Yang", infinite lingering after, leaving Linglong pillow a set, people go pillow to stay fragrant.

Pillow mystery, of course, more than Cao Zhi and Zhen's this pile, the Tang Dynasty's Princess Gao Yang and Xuanzang apprentice defense machine has also been quietly interpreted in the pillow is not the same as love, just the results of some people can not bear to see.

Princess Gao Yang married to the son of Prime Minister Fang Xuan Ling, scattered riding standing service Fang Zhuiai as his wife, but the heart of another, and the monk defense machine love. Do not love extra horse harnessed by the side of a team love monk, high Yang Princess Princess Princess why this kind of alternative may not be today's people can fully understand. Anyway, a princess and a monk is hot, entangled for eight years. During the eight years, Princess GaoYang gift defense machine love ornaments countless, including a royal special JinBao god pillow.

Pillow in ancient law, although no identity, it is a status symbol. This jinbao god pillow is not ordinary people can use. Defenders may be overwhelmed by love, anyway, is the value of this time the fixed pillow left in Hongfu Temple. So that later the jade pillow was stolen, the defense machine was sentenced to death under the willow tree in the west market, serving the Princess of more than ten slave girls to know the crime of non-reporting are strangled to death. The blood-stained pillow of spring and autumn, so how can the love be embarrassed?

Fortunately, the pillow affair is not all like this, there are always some is desirable.

Fortunately, pillow love affairs are not all like this, there are always some that are desirable. In "The Story of the Western Wing", Hongniang held a pillow to send Cui Yingying and Zhang Sheng, "mandarin ducks pillow, emerald coverlet, shyly refused to raise his head, bow shoes, phoenix head narrow, cloud sideburns fell gold hairpin." It can be imagined that the pair of mandarin ducks pillow under the head of the two, will also be shy.