枕是与人类关系最密切的一种生活用具,夜寐与小憩均不可或缺,一天中近三分之一时间,人们都要携枕而卧。当代枕的材质和功能繁多,有保健枕、药用枕、首枕、腰枕、靠枕等,足见人们十分注重枕的舒适性功能。与当代相比,古代枕的内涵更为丰富,具有重要的艺术审美价值和社会文化功能。古代的枕材质上大致分为软枕和硬枕。软枕多为木枕、竹枕、皮革枕、布帛枕,因织物填充香料或植物编制,多做生活实用,实物难以保存,渊源难以考证;硬枕多为石、玉、漆、陶瓷材质,往往历经历史淘洗而留存, Pillow is the most closely related to a kind of daily necessities, sleep soundly and rest are indispensable, one day in nearly a third of the time, people have to carry pillow and lying. Contemporary pillow material and versatility, a health pillow, medicinal pillow, the first pillow, waist pillow, pillow, etc., shows that people pay great attention to pillow comfort function. Compared with contemporary times, ancient connotation of the pillow is more abundant, with important artistic aesthetic value and social and cultural functions. Ancient pillow material is roughly divided into soft pillow and hard pillow. The soft pillow is mostly wooden pillow, bamboo pillow, leather pillow, cloth and silk pillow, because the fabric is filled with spices or plants, more practical life, difficult to save in kind, origin difficult to verify; hard pillow mostly stone, jade, lacquer, ceramic material, often After the history of panning and retained,