With the development of society and the improvement of people's living standards, there are more and more kinds of pillows and various materials. But in the eyes of the ancients, we can only find one kind of pillow, that is, ceramic pillow. It stands to reason that the physiological structure of the ancients is no different from that of us modern people. Why do they choose this tall, cool thing with a diaphragm and extremely uncomfortable as a pillow?
To this question, Mr. Ma Weidou explained that the ancients paid great attention to protecting their hair. They have many kinds of sayings, such as parents and so on. They all have long hair, so it is difficult to have a fixed hairstyle. At that time, there was no such thing as hair gel, and they needed to rely on this hard pillow as a pillow.
The second reason is that ceramic pillows are very useful in summer, and their materials are very cool. People can keep cool by designing them to be hollow and ventilated left and right. The ancients also had no air conditioning. In summer, this cool pillow is simply a summer artifact, which allows you to sleep peacefully and will not be woken up in the middle of the night.
The third reason is that we all have the illusion that the ancients used ceramic pillows. Actually, they didn't. The ancients also had wooden pillows filled with cassia seed and tartary buckwheat skin. We once unearthed a bamboo pillow of Chu State in the Warring States Period in Henan, which was made of bamboo. Moreover, Sima Guang also has a famous story, that is, in order to study hard, he made a log pillow. If you sleep on this pillow, the pillow will slide down and people will be awakened. You can continue to study after waking up. This pillow called "police pillow" is also made of wood. Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica in the Ming Dynasty also recorded that filling cassia seed and tartary buckwheat bark as pillows could improve eyesight.
It can be seen that the ancients didn't only have that kind of pillow, but ceramic pillows were used more in summer. Of course, the ancients couldn't pillow this cold thing in winter. A pillow is not an absolute thing. If not, you can put your clothes on the pillow and sleep. In order to show your identity, rich people can also use decorative ceramic pillows and cotton-filled fans as pillows.