Instead of sitting on a chair in many costume dramas, the task is to sit on the ground in a semi-circular wooden utensil? What is the scientific name of that wooden implement?

Stools and chairs are all known as traditional Chinese sitting furniture. However, in the most ancient times, China did not have these "sitting with feet hanging down" 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, in the "Confucius Lecture", which we often see, Confucius is sitting on a low bed and lecturing, surrounded by 72 disciples sitting on several mats to listen to the lecture. At this time, the mat, is the earliest people's seating

With the seat at the same time or a little later, the emergence of furniture called "bed". Ancient times, the bed does not exclusively refer to lying down, but most of the use as a seating

From the "Hu bed", China's seating trend is increasingly to the development of the high foot. 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.

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 appeared "master chair",