In ancient times, people liked to sleep on porcelain pillows, didn t they have their heads?

Ah, how can such a hard texture not be a head.

However, what the ancients wanted was a head. In fact, there are many materials of ancient pillows in China, including wooden pillows, grass pillows, jade pillows, amber pillows, glass pillows and other material pillows. In "Shuowen Jie Zi", the pillow is explained like this:

Pillow, lying so recommended for the first one. From the wood, the voice. In other words, the pillow may have been wooden in its earliest form.

Ancient scholars studied hard in the cold window, and even if they slept, they would never let themselves sleep steadily, but what if there was no alarm clock in ancient times. The porcelain pillow has become an alarm clock from time to time, after all, it is really a head, and it is not comfortable to fall asleep, so after a short sleep, the scholars continue to start reading.

There are also logs that are used as pillows, and the logs will open up when they are slightly stressed, and the students can't sleep if they want to, so they naturally go to study. Fortunately, there is an alarm clock now, and you can turn it off and continue to sleep after it goes off. In addition to students, there are not a few people who use porcelain pillows, especially in summer.

In summer, I have a cold porcelain pillow on my pillow, and it is also cool to fall asleep, but I am a little awkward. The Northern Song Dynasty poet Zhang Lei said, "Gong people make pillows that are strong and green, so they give me anti-inflammatory steam." Persistently enter the room with a cool breeze, and the brain is cold and mud pills are frightened.

The poem praises the porcelain pillow for bringing coolness to itself on a hot summer day.

I'm also curious about this question, whether it's my classmates, friends, or colleagues, I've asked this question, and everyone thinks it's quite strange. For this problem, I also deliberately found something similar in hardness and put it under my head, and lay on the pillow for a while, honestly I was too awkward, I felt that if I were given a pillow like this, then I would never sleep, or sit and sleep.

I still remember the first time I saw porcelain pillows, or when I was very young, I watched a TV series, which was played by Zhou Jie and Shi Xiaolong, a teenager Bao Qingtian. I don't remember the storyline very clearly, I just remember that it seems to be when I went to Beijing to catch the exam, a lot of studies were framed, one night when Bao Zheng was sleeping, he noticed that there was movement outside, so he chased out with a pillow, holding a porcelain pillow, and hit Xiao Er's head with this porcelain pillow, and it was bleeding at the time, and I suddenly felt that this pillow was really hard! At that time, I wondered why the ancients embarrassed themselves, sleeping on such a hard pillow, wouldn't their heads hurt, I really felt sorry for them!

At that time, I didn't understand, I saw a porcelain pillow and thought it was all porcelain, and then I heard others say on the Internet, in ancient times, there were also silky thick pillows, not all of them are porcelain, just like we now have people sleeping on soft pillows, some people sleeping on buckwheat pillows, and some people sleeping on bamboo pillows, there are many to choose from. Maybe everyone is more concerned about porcelain pillows, because they are special, so they remember, so they think they are all porcelain pillows.

As for the porcelain pillow we are always curious about, I can only say that for those who are used to soft pillows, they will definitely feel like a head, if you have been pillowing this kind of porcelain pillow since birth, you should not feel a head. It's just a habit, and a habit can change a lot of things, including the way we live, and if you get used to living like this, it will be changed. I used to think that people who didn't eat dinner were terrible, and I felt that it was impossible to skip dinner in my life, but in October last year, my weight reached an all-time high, 130 pounds, and I felt that it was a shame.

I finally made up my mind**, got up that morning and ran a lap, controlled my diet, didn't eat snacks and fried food, and resolutely didn't eat at night. It was too difficult at first, I was used to eating dinner, I was hungry at one point, and every time I was hungry, I drank water, and I persisted for more than ten days, and I slowly got used to not eating and I automatically didn't feel hungry. Habits can change a lot, and what you find incredible may just be a habit of someone else.

So don't worry about other people's heads anymore, people are used to it and don't think it, anyway, you don't want to go to the pillow.

The children's shoes who have watched a lot of costume dramas must have seen such a picture, when the characters in the play go to bed, the camera gives them the pillows, many of which are porcelain pillows or square pillows that we can't understand, whenever I see such a picture, I believe everyone thinks it is strange, a good soft pillow is not a pillow, why sleep so hard!

Porcelain pillow You don't know this! The ancients were not like us in modern times, and in the hot summer, you could turn on the air conditioner to escape the heat. The ancients were very bitter!

It really depends on the calm heart and natural coolness Speaking of this, I can't help but feel sorry for the ancients for three seconds Whenever the summer night comes, the summer artifact of the ancients appears-porcelain pillow. Li Qingzhao, a female lyricist in the Southern Song Dynasty, has a very famous poem "Drunken Flower Yin": The mist is thick and the clouds are sad for eternity, and the brain is a golden beast.

The festival is chongyang, the jade pillow yarn cupboard, the middle of the night is cool and the beginning is penetrated. After dusk, there is a dark fragrance on the sleeves. Mo Dao does not kill the soul, the curtain is swept by the west wind, and people are thinner than yellow flowers.

The jade pillow mentioned here is a blue and white glazed porcelain pillow.

Li Shizhen said in the book "Compendium of Materia Medica", "Pillow porcelain pillow for a long time can clear the heart and eyes, and you can read fine books when you are old." It can be seen that the role of porcelain pillows should not be underestimated! You have to ask, although the porcelain pillow is good, it is still a problem!

In fact, no matter how complex the shape of the porcelain pillow is, the shape of the top surface is slightly curvature, which is in line with the roundness of the human head, and tries to make the user feel comfortable. The shape of this porcelain pillow is very complex and beautiful, but the shape of the top surface is still U-shaped, which conforms to the shape of the human head. There is also related to the hairstyle of the ancients, in the Sui and Tang dynasties, women's hairstyles were all towering buns, and it must take a long time to comb once, so try to maintain the hairstyle while sleeping, and porcelain pillows can achieve this purpose.

Tang Dynasty women's hair bun styling Northern Song Dynasty Dingyao white porcelain children's pillow is not a bright feeling! This porcelain pillow is now in the collection of the National Palace Museum in Taipei, the first feeling of the whole is the child's lively and cute, the shape and function are also well combined, the child's curved back is just used as the position of the head's pillow, comfortable and beautiful. The child's expression and clothing pattern are depicted very naturally and vividly, and the overall glaze color is "ivory white", giving people a natural and quiet feeling, which is really a fine product in the porcelain pillow.

Well, there are many advantages of porcelain pillows, so are you willing to sleep on pillows?

Pillows are essential daily necessities for our daily life, every day we sleep can not do without pillows, and pillows are closely related to our sleep quality, pillows can protect our spine when we sleep, cervical spine to maintain a certain curvature, there are various types of pillows on the market, pillow materials are also varied, compared to modern ancient times are generally made of porcelain pillows, let's take a look, the ancients slept with porcelain pillows are not uncomfortable?

The ancients used porcelain to make pillows, and Lao Bi was for the convenience of women.

Because ancient women have very long hair, it takes a lot of time every day to take care of this beautiful long hair, and there are usually a lot of headdresses on the hair, and if you choose the kind of pillow with soft material, then you have to completely remove those headdresses when you sleep, so that women dress up is very laborious, very troublesome, and if you choose porcelain pillows, the headdress will not be messed up, they are very convenient to take care of, and you don't have to spend too long on the hair every day. It also dissipates heat well and does not breed lice due to high temperatures.

Porcelain pillows are cooler.

In ancient times, the ancients did not have air conditioning and no fan, so in the summer, the temperature was particularly high, and it would be very hot, especially when sleeping at night, once it was warm, it would not be able to sleep at all, which would affect sleep, so the ancients would not use soft pillows, but would choose to use porcelain as pillows, because this would be cooler, and the material would be relatively cold and cold to sleep, which had a certain cooling effect, so that people would not feel so hot and dry, so that it would not affect sleep, and they could fall asleep faster and make the quality of sleep higher.

Porcelain pillows are not so comfortable, but they are practical.

The ancients used to use porcelain pillows for sleeping, although they may not be so comfortable, but practicality is more important for comfort. The conditions of the ancients were not so good, there were no fan air conditioners, so what suited the ancients was the best.

It was not uncomfortable under the conditions. In ancient times, there was no air conditioning, and the porcelain pillow material was cool, which happened to play a role in cooling.

They must have been uncomfortable, but they were used to it, and they hadn't invented such a soft pillow at that time.

Such a pillow is not particularly high, so it is also very suitable for us to rely on, and it is also very comfortable to lean on. See for yourself.

Nowadays, many people like to have pillows when they sleep, and some people may not like high pillows when they sleep, and some people will like them, because they think that high pillows are easier to sleep, so they prefer them. So let's not talk about modern us, let's take ancient ones first, they are also many people like to use pillows.

Maybe the style at that time will be very different from ours, that is, in ancient times, they used that stone as a pillow at first, but later there were those silk pillows, but it seems that girls in that era preferred to use porcelain pillows. Are you a little curious, why is this the case? In fact, there is a reason that it can be convenient for those girls.

Because ancient girls generally had long hair, so they would be very troublesome when they got up in the morning, because they had to dress up and dress up, and their hair was long and easy to lose some hair, so they were afraid to tidy up some pillow cloths in the morning, so they simply used porcelain pillows. And in addition, we Chinese have liked to study those porcelain since ancient times, which not only has a good appearance, but also can be used by everyone.

In addition, both girls and boys had long hair at the time, and there was a difficult way to clean long hair, which was not easy to dry when washing hair, so it may be very troublesome for them to wash their hair every day. Then with this kind of porcelain pillow, it is different, they can use this to fix their hairstyle, because porcelain is relatively slippery, and it is not easy to have static electricity, so it will be very convenient for their people with long hair.

So don't you think it would be very uncomfortable to lie directly on that pillow like we do now? After all, the porcelain is relatively hard, and they will find it very uncomfortable when they sleep. But what everyone doesn't know is temperament, they don't just put their heads in the porcelain pillow, but on the neck side of the pillow, they will feel that a cloth is put on the side of the neck, so that they won't feel very uncomfortable when they sleep, and they won't feel that their hair is hard and cold porcelain.

The design of the porcelain pillow front is slightly lower than the back of the pillow, which can make the pillow a little more comfortable, but it must still be a head. However, the ancients did not use porcelain pillows all year round, porcelain pillows were mostly used in summer, and soft pillows were also used at other times.

The earliest porcelain pillow found so far was unearthed from the tomb of Zhang Sheng of the Sui Dynasty in Anyang, Henan. Porcelain pillows flourished in the Tang and Song dynasties, however, after the Ming and Qing dynasties, the ancients basically did not use porcelain pillows. In the hot summer, the texture of the porcelain pillow is relatively cool, which can relieve the heat.

In the Sui, Tang and Song dynasties, it was a relatively hot period in ancient China, and it was no coincidence that porcelain pillows appeared during this period. Perhaps, the original porcelain pillow was used to relieve the heat in summer.

In addition, the ancients believed that porcelain pillows were good for the eyes, and the so-called "bright eyes and good eyes, until the old age can read fine books". However, porcelain pillows are not just used as bedding, they also have other uses, such as:

As a beacon. Many of the porcelain pillows we see today are buried in tombs as a kind of Ming vessel. Of course, there are also many that were used by the tomb owner during his lifetime and were buried in the tomb after his death.

It can ward off evil spirits. The pillow surface of some porcelain pillows will have the words "town house Daji", and its use is self-evident.

Meaning auspicious. For example, the famous national treasure "children's pillow", which is shaped like a baby, is lively and vivid, implying many children and blessings.

Therefore, it cannot be one-sidedly thought that ancient porcelain pillows were only used to make pillows.

Chinese culture is broad and profound, our ancestors left us a lot of wisdom, although now the level of humanity and creativity progress, but the wisdom of the ancients can still be breathtaking, not to mention the construction of the Great Wall, even some ancient carpenter craftsmanship will make modern people marvel. Therefore, the ancients should not be a stupid image in our hearts.

Many people can't help but wonder: why did the ancients use ceramics to make pillows, didn't they have their heads? This answer still needs to be based on the living habits of the ancients.

As we all know, ancient people's hair was particularly long, and under the influence of the idea of "parents of body hair and skin", they would not easily cut their hair, so it is conceivable how long the hair of the ancients could be. Especially in ancient times, women may not cut their hair once in their lives, and their hair is even more long. If the hair is too long, if you use that kind of cotton pillow, you may have a serious problem of hair knots, and ancient women would dress up in the morning, and knotting it would cause trouble combing and it would take a long time to style it.

And the ancients washed their hair was also a very troublesome thing, ceramic pillows will not absorb sweat, and have a good effect on maintaining hygiene.

The ancient climate was relatively hot, and the ceramic pillow could help the head to better dissipate heat, and the dense hair of the ancients was like a hat, and the heat dissipation function of the ceramic pillow was really good.

A hard pillow is helpful for our cervical spine, it fits well to the physiological curve of our body, can correct the sleeping position, and prevent spondylosis.

But after all, the ceramic pillow is still too hard, who can bear it, so the ancients did not lie directly on the pillow like we do now, but placed a cloth around the neck, and then lay down, so that sleeping will not only not be uncomfortable, but also protect the hair. Nowadays, the quality of life of people has improved, and many people choose soft pillows for beautiful sleep at night. Personally, I don't like soft pillows very much, I feel that as soon as I lie down, I will be depressed, and the pillow I pillow at home is a buckwheat husk pillow, which is not very soft and not very hard, and it is very comfortable to sleep.