Chair Origin

According to historical records, the name of the chair first appeared in the Tang Dynasty, and the image of the chair can be traced back to the Hu bed introduced to the north in the Han and Wei Dynasties. In the frescoes of Cave 285 in Dunhuang, there are images of two people sitting on chairs; in the frescoes of Cave 257 there are women sitting on square benches and cross-legged benches; in the stone carvings in the Lianhua Cave of Longmen, there are women sitting on round benches. These images vividly reproduce the use of chairs and stools in official and aristocratic families during the Northern and Southern Dynasties. Although the seating equipment at that time already had the shape of a chair and a stool, because there was no chair or stool at that time, people used to call it "Hu bed". After the Tang Dynasty, the use of chairs gradually increased, and the names of chairs were also widely used before they were separated from the category of beds. Therefore, when discussing the origin of chairs and stools, we must start from the Hu bed in the Han and Wei Dynasties.

There is another interpretation of the word "Wooden Accent Armchairs" before the Tang Dynasty, which is "by the car", that is, the fence of the car. Its role is to rely on when people ride. Later chairs, in the form of fences installed on a platform supported by four legs, were inspired by the fences next to the car, and the seat was called "chair" after its name. Judging from the existing materials, the Tang Dynasty has a very particular chair.

From the Five Dynasties to the Song Dynasty, high-profile seating equipment was unprecedentedly popular, and the forms of chairs also increased, such as back chairs, armchairs, and armchairs. At the same time, according to the different levels of honor and inferiority, the shape, material and function of the chair are also different.

Furniture from the Five Dynasties to the Song Dynasty generally retains the legacy of the Tang Dynasty, but high-end furniture is more popular than before.

The chair is known for its old and simple, though many centuries, a state of common use. Chairs exist because at least in the early dynastic period. They were covered in cloth or leather and carved in wood, all much lower than today's chairs, whose seats are sometimes only 25 cm high. The chairs in ancient Egypt seem to have been enormously rich and splendid. Old-fashioned ebony and ivory carved and gilded wood, they are covered with expensive materials, ornate patterns and legged figures of beasts or captives, showing support. Generally speaking, the higher the ranked individual, the taller and more ornate the chair he sat on, the greater the honor. On important national occasions the pharaoh sat on a throne, often far from a small footstool in front of it.