As a necessary thing for our daily rest, pillows are indeed indispensable in our daily life. Most of us now have soft pillows, but in TV dramas, we always see them sleeping hard on wooden pillows and stone pillows.

In ancient times, what role did pillows play as a very important sleeping tool? Those "stone pillows" and "jade pillows" look cold and hard to us. How can they be comfortable? Actually, it's very interesting.

long-lived

According to historical records, Sun Simiao, a famous medical scientist, lived 102 years old because of his "medicine pillow". The so-called medicine pillow is to put Chinese medicine in the pillow. Li Shizhen recorded in Compendium of Materia Medica that tartary buckwheat skin, black bean skin, mung bean skin and cassia seed were used as pillows until they became old and bright. It can be seen that the ancients mastered the method of putting medicine in pillows for health preservation, which seems to be widely circulated today. In addition, most of the pillows we use now are made of buckwheat skin.

Keep your hairstyle.

The ancients often said that the body was influenced by parents, so the ancients also paid great attention to their hair styles. Especially many men, because their hair is tied up, if they get up in a mess in the morning, their image will really drop. So when the ancients slept, both men and women could pull their hair back. When they wake up in the morning, their hair is not crushed, so it looks convenient.

Cool summer vacation

You know, in ancient times, without air conditioning and electric fans, it was not easy for the ancients to escape the heat, especially in summer. So this pillow comes in handy, whether it is a porcelain pillow, a jade pillow or even a stone pillow, it can bring a little coolness in the hot summer days. In Li Qingzhao's "Drunk Flowers", there is a double ninth festival, a jade pillow and a gauze kitchen, which is cool in the middle of the night. Through this beautiful poem, you can also feel the coolness.

In a word, these cold hardwood pillows and stone pillows are still beneficial in the eyes of the ancients. Otherwise, why are there big jade pillows in the dormitory of the ruling class? It can be seen that the pillow "hard pillow" is the mainstream of the times and is deeply sought after by the ancients.