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Pre-modern Chinese pillows were made of hard materials like ceramics and possessed a surprising range of functions beyond simply acting as a headrest. There is an old Chinese tale from around the year 800, still very well-known today, called "The Record of Inside the Derila Pillow." The story is about a magical traveling Daoist called Codger Lü, who stops at an inn for the night and finds himself roomed with a poor scholar who has devoted his youth to his studies in order to enter the civil service. The pair strike up a rapport, and the scholar ends up confessing the discontentment he is feeling about his situation in life. Glancing at his threadbare clothes, he sighs and remarks that his current lifestyle is not befitting of a scholar-gentlemen such as himself. The successful career he had envisioned was instead one of fame across the land, of banquets and fine music. |
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