Ancient people to get rid of summer three treasures: cool pillow cool mat cool bed(3)

Maitreya couch four-sided bed for the ancients preferred bedding

The Southern Song Dynasty lyricist Cheng Gai, "small peach blossom" word cloud:

? The precious woven grass mat is a small hu bed, waiting for the day to sit idly?

Bed is after the mat, the emergence of the earliest bedding.? The word "bed" was already in the oracle bone inscriptions. This character has appeared in the oracle bone writing? The first time I saw a bed, it was the first time I saw a mattress. East Han Xu Shen "Shuowen Jiezi" that:? Ancient leisure sitting in the bed, hidden in a few, not hanging feet, the night is sleeping, the morning is converging pillow woven mat.

Bed is generally made of wood, so the past bed writing?

The bed is usually made of wood, so in the past the bed was written? But out of heat considerations, there are also beds made of jade, ivory, crystal and so on. Among them,? Stone bed? Is the ancient people think the best summer cooling bedding, the Southern Song Dynasty Emperor Liu Yu has? Fever? The sitting and lying need to use cooling items, some people will offer stone bed,? The bed, extremely thought good. Liu Yu came from a poor background, is a cloth emperor, Liu Yu think with the stone bed is too corrupt, so will break the stone bed? Although there is a tradition of using jade to make beds, it is said that the bed used by King Zhou and Daji, the last monarch of the Shang Dynasty during the three ancient dynasties, was a jade bed, which is known as the "Shiben"? Zhou made a jade bed?

More advanced than the stone bed is? According to the "Strategies of the Warring States? Qi Ce III"? Meng Changjun traveling country to Chu? Article records, when Meng Changjun tour to Chu, Chu gave him an ivory bed. Because? The elephant bed was worth a thousand dollars. , too expensive, at that time a person surnamed Dengtu was sent to send the bed, for fear that in case of failure,? Selling his wife is not enough to pay for the sale of his wife and children can not afford to lose, do not dare to go. Visible, ivory bed in pre-Qin is a rare bed, valuable.

The above bed is not a single function of the cool bed, the ancient summer dedicated cool bed generally known as? Crib? The bed is also known as a couch. The bed is different from the regular bedding, double use of the? Large bed? Couch and bed do bedding, slightly different functions: bed is more domestic, and couch more for guests; bed is used to lie down, couch more for sitting and resting.

What kind of ancient cool bed? There are two types of box and frame structure, generally with wooden boards for the surface. Beijing Palace Museum in the collection of Song anonymous painting "acacia summer map" in a cool bed is the frame structure of the couch, this cool couch is more elaborate, after a landscape alone screen.

Similar cool couch in the Song Dynasty was very popular, such as the Southern Song Dynasty Ma and the "Lotus Pavilion Na Shuang Tu" is also this structure. This couch belongs to the board couch, there is no common enclosure, so the ancients also called ? Four-sided bed?

The four-sided bed slightly changed, after the back panel, one side with a handrail, one head with pillows, into a more elaborate couch? The ancients called? The beauty of the couch? or? The ancient people called the beauty couch or the concubine couch? The furniture.

There is also a? Mileage couch? The bed is also known as the "Luohan bed". The four-sided bed is supposed to be this kind of Luohan bed to simplify, remove the enclosure formed after the couch or complex four-sided bed.

The cheaper cool beds are made of rattan and bamboo, of which bamboo beds and couches are most commonly used in the south. Song Lu Rongyang has a poem depicting the summer lying on a bamboo bed to rest:? The old read the book Xing Yi appendage, we must know that it is better to raise the sick than idle. Bamboo bed tile pillow on the virtual hall, lying down to see the rain of Jiangnan after the mountain.

In ancient times, there is also a? is also commonly used by the ancients in the summer to sleep. The Southern Song lyricist Cheng Gai in the "small peach red" has said:? The precious woven grass small Hu bed, to be long day to sit idly. The so-called precious woven mat, is the precious bamboo mat; and the so-called? The so-called precious woven mat is a precious bamboo mat; and the so-called "Hu bed" is not a bed. In fact, it is not a bed, more like the modern summer old man resting on the usual chaise longue.