Seat Design under the Oriental Culture

In the present globalized world, people live in the same houses, watch the same TV, and drive the same cars, but in each country, people’s living styles remain unchanged. In Korea, Japan and other East Asian countries, the living style characterized by sitting on the ground has always been continued. In China, from the Tang and Song dynasties, the sitting style with the legs hanging down came into being, and has continued till now. Yet, on the ondol(炕) used by the northerners and the ta (couch楊) used by the southerners, the sitting habit is still kept, and people use sitting styled furniture on their ondol(炕) or ta(楊). We may say that changes in living style have caused changes in people’s sitting manner, which has triggered the changes of furniture in size and shape in turn.