In primitive times, people slept with their heads held up by a bundle of stones or straw, which was probably their original pillow when they "dug holes in the mountains". By the Warring States period, pillows had been very particular. 1957, a well-preserved lacquer wood bed in Zhang Baocun was unearthed from the Chu tomb in Changtaiguan, Xinyang, Henan. Predecessors have done a lot of research on pillows. Sima Guang, a famous historian in the Northern Song Dynasty, used a small log as a pillow. When he slept, he just moved his head and fell off the pillow. He woke up immediately. After waking up, he continued to study hard. He named this pillow "police pillow". In order to strengthen the body during sleep and achieve the purpose of treating diseases, the ancients also put medicines in pillows to treat diseases, which are called "medicine pillows". Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica said: "Tartary buckwheat is black in skin.

Bean skin, mung bean skin, cassia seed ..... as pillows until old eyesight. There are all kinds of pillows among the people, most of which aim at "clearing fire" and "removing heat". Now pillows are more and more widely used in medical care, such as "magnetic therapy pillow", which has certain curative effect on neurasthenia, insomnia, headache and tinnitus. A kind of "cervical pillow" is very popular in America and Hong Kong. Sleeping on this pillow can completely relax the muscles of the neck, shoulders and skull base and eliminate the fatigue of the day. At present, Japan has also developed a "fitness pillow", which can continuously release energy like an oscillator, promote human blood circulation and metabolism, and play a hypnotic role, so as to better play its role as a sleep tool.

Quilts first appeared in primitive society. At that time, the weather was colder than it is now. People covered their bodies with usable coverings, especially animal fur.