In the busy affairs, we modern people have unwittingly ignored the role of the total pillow, shape and material, commonly used rectangular pillow to fiber as filler. At first glance it seems very soft, in fact, very beneficial to health. This is a big misunderstanding.
The shape of the pillow is extremely important, absolutely not be ignored. The ancients used the square pillow (after Han Chang-hung "wood ring pillow Fu," "non-exhaust-shaped pillow system for the side"). I unearthed in Luoyang Museum to see the Southern Song 7 pillows, also well-pillow, just not rectangular loquat head. Square pillow is probably not comfortable pillow up, not in line with the body and neck construction, then phased out, the Luoyang Museum also has a cylindrical pillow. Cylindrical neck pillow is consistent with the physiological curvature of the body. People sleep, the animal pillow in the neck, head and neck of gravity, it will indeed points along the curve of the solution to the physiological cervical vertebra and cervical disc rear, when the pressure of work and learning over the front of the cervical intervertebral disc restitution, strained ligaments behind the neck, the muscles in the pillow under gravity during the process of massage, recovery from fatigue. Fifties and sixties, people now can recall the last century, 60 years ago, people are generally cylindrical hull pillow pillows, and even married his daughter's dowry cylindrical pillow is embroidered. That season, there are a few people have cervical spondylosis?
Choice of pillows, they should also pay attention to the material and filler. Divided by the texture of the pillow, jade pillow, pillow fabric, wood pillow, bamboo pillow, porcelain pillow, pottery, pillows, pillow soil ("Book of Rites mourning Biography": "thatch sleep pillow block." Ancient funeral, funeral home parents, with soil block as a pillow.), and so on. What season of the texture of the pillow for what to change with time. For example, strict hot summer and autumn, it is appropriate Lek Khan bamboo pillow, other times, it is appropriate cotton pillow. Divided by stuffing pillows, a pillow, chrysanthemum pillow, tea pillow, millet pillow, Valley (shell), pillows, cotton pillows, fiber pillows, buckwheat pillow, and so on. What kind of pillow for you, to vary. Suitable for middle-aged friends with Shugan eyesight refreshing the chrysanthemum pillow, tea pillow, suitable for the sick friends of Chinese herbal medicine with symptomatic pillow.