The Historical Evolution of South Korea Sitting on the Floor

China cultural circles such as China, South Korea and Japan all sit on the floor. The stool is not Asian, but invented by Europeans. After Mongolia opened the road to Europe and Asia, stools spread to China, and then to North Korea and Japan via China. People in China began to sit on stools in the Yuan Dynasty, and it became popular after the Ming Dynasty. Korea and Japan will be very late. Because many traditional manners are closely related to sitting on the floor, and South Korea and Japan have not been invaded and ruled by foreigners on a large scale like China, according to the Confucian rule of "reciprocity", the custom of sitting on the floor in South Korea and Japan was completely westernized until modern times.