The history of the harmony room

Harmony room originated from Zen halls and palaces in China during the Han and Tang Dynasties. With the development of ancient dry fence buildings in China, in order to prevent wooden buildings from being eaten by insects, people put the floor very high, which is convenient to isolate the moisture generated on the ground and prolong the service life. On the basis of this dry fence building, a layer of bamboo "mat" was laid, and then it was matched with "mat", so it was called mat system, also known as mat system.

By the Zhou Dynasty, China had a tradition of building rooms with mats. The development and establishment of the banquet system formed a mature system during this period and reached its peak in the Han Dynasty. It can be said that Japanese overlapping is a direct inheritance of China banquet system. The Xi drama system in China died out in the late Southern and Northern Dynasties and the early Sui and Tang Dynasties. Until the Tang Dynasty, seats were rare among the people, and were mostly used in meditation halls and halls.

When it was introduced to Japan, Japanese people had the habit of sitting on the floor. They extended the folding chairs used in the original bedroom to the whole harmonious room, and with the common gray sand walls, fir boards and paper-pasted wooden partition doors in Japanese homes, they evolved into the present harmonious room.