It was this golden pillow that exposed a love affair between Princess Gaoyang and the debating machine monk. It turns out that the Jinbao pillow was given to her lover by Princess Gaoyang. It's hard to tell this story, but it is recorded in New Tang Book. Coincidentally, there was also a story about pillows in the early Tang Dynasty. It is recorded in Tai Ping Guang Ji that Chai Shao, the younger brother of Emperor Taizong of Tang Dynasty, has a flying skill, which can fly over eaves and climb walls. What is his nickname? Wall dragon? .
Li Shimin thought it was amazing. At night, he asked the dragon on the wall to take out the golden pillow of Princess Danyang. The wall dragon sneaked into Princess Danyang's room at night and sprinkled a handful of dirt on her face. She felt a foreign body and looked up. At this time, the wall dragon changed into a golden pillow, while Princess Danyang continued to sleep, unaware that the pillow she was resting on was not the original one.
Whether it's a golden pillow or a gold pillow, it's a pillow for the royal princess to sleep with. Nature is gorgeous, and just listening to the name makes people feel infinite yearning. As an indispensable sleep tool in one's life, pillows are naturally very important. At present, there are all kinds of pillows, which not only meet people's sleep needs, but also have various auxiliary functions, such as helping sleep, such as treating certain diseases.
Ancient pillows were also varied, but compared with now, they were much more monotonous. Human pillows were first obtained directly from nature, such as a stone, a piece of wood, a bundle of grass and so on. As long as they can look up.
With the progress of the times, people demand more and more pillows, and they begin to pay attention to them, so they make all kinds of pillows, sew them with cloth, and fill them with all kinds of things, such as herbs, grains, cotton and linen. In the Sui and Tang Dynasties, a new kind of pillow appeared, namely porcelain pillow.
As the name implies, porcelain pillow is a kind of porcelain. According to our present imagination, how can porcelain pillows be used to sleep? Cold, hard and high, it is by no means a good pillow, but porcelain pillows were very popular in Sui, Tang, Song and even Yuan and Ming Dynasties. Porcelain pillows can be found in all kinds of ancient books, novels and poems.
The appearance of porcelain pillows is not so much to meet people's sleep needs as to be related to the porcelain-making technology at that time. As we all know, there was a famous tri-colored glazed pottery in the Tang Dynasty. At that time, the porcelain-making technology was very developed, and all aspects of life were filled with all kinds of porcelain. Porcelain pillows also appeared. At first, porcelain pillows were not used to sleep for the living, but were used as funerary objects in graves.
For example, in the Palace Museum, there is a tri-color blue mandarin duck pillow in the Tang Dynasty. The pillow is rectangular and engraved with four pairs of mandarin ducks. This pillow was buried with the Tang Dynasty.
However, with the development of porcelain pillow technology, porcelain pillows have gradually appeared in life, not necessarily for sleeping, but also as handicrafts and ornamental. However, in summer, porcelain pillows do have a cooling effect, so they can really be used to sleep. Then at that time, porcelain pillows had two more functions, one for decoration and the other for sleeping.
Of course, whether it is used as an ornamental or a sleeping tool, it can only be owned by families that are rich or expensive, or even the royal family. Ordinary people's pillows are ordinary pillows, and such porcelain pillows are very expensive. In the Song Dynasty, porcelain pillows became more mature and reached their peak. All kinds of porcelain pillows have been made, and now many museums have porcelain pillows from the Song Dynasty.
For example, in the Palace Museum in Beijing, there is a children's pillow in the Ding kiln in the Song Dynasty, which is unique in shape and exquisite in skill. It looks very beautiful. There are also three-color double lion porcelain pillows in Yunnan Museum and white glazed black lotus porcelain pillows in Cizhou kiln in Song Dynasty in Shaanxi History Museum.
With the appearance of a large number of porcelain pillows, they are gradually integrated into daily life. So there is a lot of life on the porcelain pillow. For example, many porcelain pillows will be decorated with words, such as Tang poetry and Song poetry.
It's a lot like when I was at school, writing on the desk. What? Study hard and make progress every day? Ah, the words on porcelain pillows are the same, because they have become a part of life. People will look at the words on the pillows when they sleep, which is also a small lesson to remind themselves of their attitude towards people before going to bed.
However, in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, porcelain pillows gradually withdrew from the historical stage. After all, porcelain pillows are really too high. To be honest, long sleep is really bad for your health. Not to mention hard porcelain pillows. Even now, our pillows with little hardness are uncomfortable, let alone porcelain pillows. Porcelain pillows are more often a kind of appreciation, which is really used in life, flashy and even harmful.