古代没有桌、凳等用具,人们坐卧都在用草、竹及其他材料制成的席上。今天的成语“席不暇暖”、“席地而坐”等,就反映了古人的这一生活习惯。席的名称很多,早在周代,就有“莞、藻、次、蒲、熊”五席之称。但从制作材料上看,主要有草、竹、兽皮三大类。草席是用草织成的席。像莞、蒲都是草席,前者细,后者粗,又藻是用柔弱的小草织成的草席,此外,萑、苇、槀等也是草席。竹席是用竹皮织成的席,像次,就是桃枝竹制成的席,还有簟、笙、篾、笋等都是竹席。兽皮席比较珍贵,非一般人所能用,熊席是用熊皮制成的席,豹 There is no ancient table, stool and other utensils, people sit on the bench made of grass, bamboo and other materials. Today’s idioms “I am too busy”, “sitting on the ground ” and so on, it reflects the ancients of this lifestyle. A lot of seats, as early as the Zhou Dynasty, there are “Wan, algae, times, Po, Bear ” five seats. However, from the production of materials, the main grass, bamboo, skins three categories. Straw mat is made of grass seats. Like Dongguan, Po is a straw mat, the former fine, the latter coarse, algae is made of grass with soft grass mats, in addition, 萑, reed, 槀 also mats. Bamboo mat is made of bamboo skin seats, like times, is made of peach bamboo seats, as well as 簟, Sheng, 篾, bamboo shoots are all bamboo mat. Sheepskin seats more precious, non-ordinary people can use bear bears made of bear skin seat, leopard