As we all know, sleep is a very important thing for our human body, in our life, sleeping time occupies 3/1, so we should pay attention to the place where we sleep, try to choose a comfortable and soft bed, so as to help us sleep. But the world is so big and strange that there is such a country that sleeps on the floor. Can you believe it? Everyone knows sleeping on the floor, it’s easy to get sick, because the humidity is especially large, coupled with the special hard floor, so in our country few people sleep on the floor, and this country is the opposite of our country, it is Japan.
Japan is an island country, is our country across the sea “neighbors”, here is not only the different exotic customs, and the secondary culture can be experienced, and many beautiful natural landscape to watch, especially every year when sakura bloom, huge crowd of people, Mount Fuji also usher in the climax of tourism.
But a lot of friends who have been to Japan travel, will find such a problem, is that most of the hotels in Japan are not bed, not only that, Japanese residents in the room, there is no bed, which makes a lot of friends doubt, have questioned whether they can not afford to buy a bed, in order to save money, just lie on the floor.
In fact, in Japan, sleeping on the floor is a very common habit, just like we have to sleep on the bed every day is the same, it is not common in our country, and they can not afford to buy a bed, just sleep on the floor, this is actually behind the reason, let’s take a look at.
The first reason: the land area is small, the population is crowded, the space of the house is limited
Friends who have traveled to Japan know that the territory of Japan is very small, but the population is very crowded. In such a small island country, natural resources should be used reasonably, not wasted.
Therefore, in such a place where land is expensive, the area of the house built is naturally not particularly large, and the purpose of doing so is to ensure that everyone has a house to live in. However, this also leads to the small area of most people’s rooms in Japan. In order to make the room have a larger activity space, they do not put a bed in the room, but put a tatami mat that can sleep and has the function of table, chair and sofa, so that guests can be entertained on it, and at night, it can also be used as a bed for sleeping. When you wake up, if too much space can be folded up in the cabinet, so that you can not take up space, very convenient. Over time, sleeping on the floor became a habit in Japan.
The second reason: earthquake protection
Friends who have learned geography all know that the geographical location of Japan is very special, just located at the junction of the Eurasian plate and the Pacific plate, especially easy to cause earthquakes, typhoons, tsunamis…… And so on, to people’s life, caused a great inconvenience.
And the Japanese in an accidental opportunity, found that sleeping on the floor can be a good feeling of vibration, so that when the typhoon, tsunami, earthquake coming, the body can be the fastest response, for our escape, for more time, so they choose to sleep on the floor.
The third reason is that it is good for our health
Understand the friends know that if people sleep in a relatively hard bed, there are many benefits to our body, can avoid our lumbar disc protrusion, lumbar pain and back pain, very suitable for today’s young people. This point of benefit, I believe we have deep experience.
But what the Japanese don’t know is that only by sleeping on a hard bed can we avoid lumbar disc protrusion and back pain in our body, rather than sleeping on the same hard floor can improve this condition. On the contrary, sleeping on the floor, the body is more prone to disease, because the floor humidity is very large, it is easy for us to get the above two kinds of diseases, in addition, our joints will also get rheumatic diseases because of sleeping on the floor for a long time. That’s why sleeping on the floor is not advocated in our country.
