The Chinese shelf bed embodies the wisdom of the ancients, in order to use more comfortable, in China's thousands of years of history, finally presented as it is now.
A third of a person's life is spent in bed, so the bed is a crucial furniture, an important place for recuperation, and the shape and detail design of the shelf bed also pinned on people's wishes.
Today, the shelf bed has two major advantages that people understand:
First of all: the shelf bed has a top and a column, shaped like a small room, sleeping on the shelf bed, like hiding in your own small world, relaxing, and reducing the space, you can also hide the wind and gather air.
Secondly: there is a guardrail around the shelf bed, there is a sense of security, and the left and right sides of the bed are also very cleverly designed, so that people sleeping at the mouth of the bed will not have the danger of falling out of bed.
Regarding the shelf bed, the famous collector Mr. Ma Weidu explained it in "Hundred Family Pulpits" and "Ma Weidu Collection - Furniture".
The so-called shelf bed is a stacked frame with a top, a six-column, a four-column, and occasionally an eight-column. Some of them may not be known to many people, and are excerpted below.
What are the benefits of a shelf bed?
01
Accounts can be hung
Hanging the account is winter insulation, summer insect avoidance, we are turning on the air conditioner today, are comfortable to no, in the past there was no such thing, after the summer is very stuffy, and then there are mosquitoes, simply sleep badly, the shelf bed is hung on an account chief, can enable you to sleep peacefully.
Since the Ming Dynasty, the emergence of shelf beds has made the sleep of Chinese have a distinction between big sleep and small sleep.
The so-called big sleep is to sleep at night, and a nap is to rest or nap.
Then in general, our big sleep is done in the shelf bed, including the pull-out bed, and the nap is done on the bed or the Luohan bed.
We can't pull guests to the bed where they are sleeping, that is, they can't be pulled to the bed on the shelf to rest, that's not okay, unless you have a VIP, a relative, and you're willing to let him sleep in your bed, that's another thing, but it can't be used as a standard for hospitality.
There is a very long-standing custom in China called "noisy cave house". In the past, when you got married, you tossed and turned, and the bride and groom were all tossed all over, and finally after being stuffed into the cave room, you were allowed to break the window paper and look inside, why allow you to see it?
It is because it is this shelf bed, the shelf bed has an account, he can't see, in other words, it is a house in the house, you want this Western-style bed today, I guess you broke the window paper, people must be anxious with you, absolutely do not allow you to look inside, so its custom must be closely related to the truth of its things, this is the shelf bed's different function.
02
When the bed has a fence, the effective area is increased
The same size bed, as long as you have a fence, you can sleep one more person in this bed, because it will not fall.
It can be imagined that when we sleep, if your arms and legs are stretched out of the bed, you will involuntarily turn over before you wake up, and if you have a fence, even if you lean over, your heart will not be afraid.
There are also many benefits of the shelf bed that we have all overlooked today.
The advantage of the shelf bed in the past is that it makes the Chinese couple's life seem changeable. The things we can accomplish as a couple in a flat bed are not the same as in a complicated room. What I said is a bit vague, and to put it a little more in detail, it is that the shelf bed will help the couple's life a lot.
We have always underestimated the pursuit and pleasure of the ancients in sexual life, thinking that the ancients were poisoned by feudal etiquette and had no pursuits. But when you see the shelf bed and understand its function, you know the shallowness of today's life. For example, the bed has a very strong railing, and there are pillars that you can make full use of to complete the difficult movements. But these potential benefits, people today are not aware of. It is a pity that Chinese give up such a bed that brings many changes and happiness to our lives, and let ourselves sleep in foreign beds.
--- The original text is excerpted from "Ma Weidu Collection - Furniture"
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