Who knows the history and origin of this chair?

Stools, chairs, all to the traditional Chinese sitting. However, in the most ancient times, China did not have these "hanging feet and sitting" furniture. This is after a period of historical development, gradually formed. As I said before, in the more ancient times, the ancient people of China used mats, which is usually referred to as "sitting on the ground". For example, we often see the Confucius Lecture, Confucius is sitting on a low bed lecturing, surrounded by 72 disciples sitting on several mats to listen to the lecture. At this time, the mat, is the earliest people sitting.

At the same time with the mat or a little later, the emergence of furniture called "bed". Ancient times, the bed does not exclusively refer to lying down, and most of the use as a sitting tool. Shang dynasty oracle bones, there has been a "bed" of the hieroglyphic characters. Han dynasty people Xu Shen in the "Shuowen" in the bed for "the body of a few sitting also", said clearly is sitting. There are many records of beds in history books, and there are all kinds of beds in all shapes and sizes. For example, the "Strategies of the Warring States" said that one of the four dukes of the Warring States, Meng Changjun, traveled to the state of Chu, had offered the king of Chu "ivory bed". A novel of the Han Dynasty, Xijing Miscellany, records that Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty had a "seven treasures bed". There is also a kind of bed called "Kuang bed". It is also called "Solitary Seat", which is obviously a single person's seating equipment. Shang Yang is said to have advised the king to be calmly "on the Kuang bed and the world will be governed", referring to this kind of seating equipment, which represented some kind of authority. From the seat to the bed, the seating equipment has been gradually high up. The bed had to be supported. In Henan Xinyang Changtaiguan found in the Warring States period of a color lacquer wooden bed, its form will have six small bed legs. Hebei Wangdu Han tomb mural painted on a single bed, also has four small feet. After the Han Dynasty, and the rise of a "Hu bed", the shape of more of its high, can be said to be the high-footed sitting. As the name suggests, "Hu bed" was originally imported from the northern minorities, what is it like? According to the Song Dynasty records, this is a "cross-footed", "bandage", "turn shrinking in a moment, weighing not a few pounds" of the seating equipment, some people believe that similar to today's "Mazar". Because of the lightweight and convenient, often taken out by the nobles on excursion trips. Legend has it that Tang Ming Huang went out to travel, will bring this tool. Hiking tired, on the ground to support the temporary rest, beautiful name for "free seat". Art and Culture Classes Gathering" records that Cao Cao also sat on this kind of furniture. Once he fought with Western Liang general Ma Chao, Ma Chao surprise attack, Cao Cao appeared to be very calm, Ma Chao's army came, he "Judas, sitting in the bed of the Hu could not afford". From these two records, the so-called "Hu bed", is not a later generation of bed-type recliner, but a legged easy to sit, is undoubtedly. This kind of seating from the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty into the Central Plains.

From the "Hu bed", China's sitting trend more and more to the development of high feet. Jin Dynasty ancient books began to appear in the name of "stool". Dunhuang Tang dynasty murals, people can see a variety of shapes of stools, square stools, long stools, round stools and oval stools. The famous Tang painting "fan ladies" painted in the waist round stool, is one of them.

After the Tang Dynasty, chairs gradually appeared to make people sit more comfortably. The Ming Dynasty famous literati Fang Yizhi once in the book "Tong Ya" testified that the later generations of tables, chairs, are the end of the Tang Dynasty after the emergence of. The word "chair" is used in conjunction with the sound "yi", which means that there is something to lean on when you sit down. We can see from another famous painting "Han Xizai Night Banquet", a famous writer and prime minister Han Xizai sitting on a high-backed chair in the Southern Tang Dynasty. Han Xizai is sitting cross-legged on that chair, with the other two officials in the painting have been "sitting with their feet hanging down".

To the Song Dynasty, the shape of the chair more and more up, there are back chairs, armchairs, chairs, chairs, etc., to name a few. Later, there was a "master chair", said to be a Song Dynasty, Beijing Zhaoyin (Beijing governor) designed for the prime minister, after the master chair has been handed down to the world.

From the floor to the feet and sit, sitting from footless to low to high, is a development trend in the history of China's furniture, indicating that human beings are always increasingly comfortable and practical life. At present, the fashion and the prevalence of various types of sofas and combinations of furniture, of course, one level further.