Hu Chuang developed into an object with backrest and armrest in Tang Dynasty.

The original name of the chair is Hu Chuang. Some people say that the "bed" in Li Bai's "Thinking about a Quiet Night" refers to Hu Chuang. In fact, the Tang Dynasty was an era of kneeling, sitting cross-legged and sitting upright, and the most special type was "bed".

A long time ago, people sat on the floor because there were no chairs. The Book of Songs has "its chair" and "chair" is "catalpa", which is the name of a tree. In fact, the image of the chair comes from the Hu bed introduced to the north during the Han and Wei Dynasties. During the Wei and Jin Dynasties, chairs and stools were developed on the basis of Hu beds, but people still called them Hu beds at that time.

Before the Tang dynasty, the word "chair" was said to be "beside the car", which meant the fence of the car. It is a fence that people rely on when riding. Later chairs were also inspired by "chairs", that is, "beside cars", that is, fences were installed on platforms supported by four feet. It is precisely because of this relationship that the name "chair" was adopted, and this kind of chair was called "chair".

The origin of the bed:

In ancient China, beds were mainly used for sitting, lying and eating.

We spend at least one-third of our time in sleep every day, so when was the bed, a sleeping tool, born to accompany us through one-third of our lives? It is said that it was invented by Shennong, but there is no definite evidence.

In primitive society, people's lives were very simple. When they sleep, they just use the branches and leaves or skin of some plants as "beds". When people mastered the knitting technology, they began to lay summer sleeping mats. Then, the bed appeared. In Oracle Bone Inscriptions of Shang Dynasty, we found a word "Lin" like a bed, which shows that there was a bed in Shang Dynasty.

Since the Spring and Autumn Period, the bed is not only a tool for sleeping, but also often used as other furniture. At that time, people put tables on their beds for writing, reading and eating. After the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, many buildings began to get taller and bigger, so the indoor space also became bigger, which made all the furniture correspondingly taller, and of course the height of the bed also increased. 19 in the 1920s, the spring bed was born. By the end of19th century, the number of metal beds increased gradually. Since ancient times, people have been constantly improving it in order to improve the quality of sleep and make it more pleasing to the eye. It seems that this is also the eternal theme of mankind.

Carpenter's gift: sofa

Sofa was originally invented for the convenience of nobles with cerebral thrombosis.

Speaking of sofa, it also has an interesting story. Once upon a time, there was an Indian aristocrat who suffered from cerebral thrombosis, resulting in hemiplegia. It was inconvenient for him to sit and lie down, and his body was uncomfortable, so he found a carpenter to tailor a chair for him. Carpenters are very clever. In order to design a chair that satisfied the nobles, he was ingenious. He nailed the cloth to the wooden chair and filled it with cotton and other things as a cushion. After this chair was made, it was immediately liked by the nobles, and the nobles who were unwell felt very comfortable sitting in this chair. This chair is the predecessor of the sofa.

But the real sofa appeared in ancient Egypt, around 2000 BC, and the wrapped sofa appeared in1the end of the 6th century1the beginning of the 7th century. At that time, the sofa was mainly filled with natural elastic materials such as horsehair, bird hair and plants, and the outside was velvet or embroidery, so it felt very soft. The popular Huaxing Geer chair at that time was one of the earliest sofa chairs in the world. 1904, Morris invented the assembly of spring, that is, the assembly of horn spring was put into the frame of sofa, which is the predecessor of modern deep sitting sofa. At the beginning of 20th century, a new cushioning technology "rubber bubble technology" was born, which was invented by Deng Lupu. The manufacturing principle is: filling gas into the rubber, then pouring it into the mold and drying to obtain an elastic filler, that is, foamed rubber. The application of foamed rubber can greatly simplify the filling process of sofa cover, and the sofa made of foamed rubber also has the appearance quality and functional effect of spring. Its invention marks the maturity of sofa technology.

The earliest sofa in China is "Yu Ji" in Han Dynasty, which is a kind of chair with thick fabric. This is the earliest sofa in China. In the Tang Dynasty, a simple sofa appeared in the palace, that is, an "imperial chair" with cushions. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, although there was a great breakthrough in furniture production and design in China, there was no great progress in soft furniture. At the beginning of the 20th century, sofas first appeared in Shanghai.

Nowadays, people have higher and higher requirements for sofa, including its style, material and even health care function. Sofa can eliminate fatigue, be elegant and beautiful, and help beautify our life. With the improvement of living standards and living conditions, sofa has become a favorite necessity in modern life.