/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>13336993
>muh chairs

cultural norms =/= universal truths

they didnt need chairs, because the floor was rather clean, shoes were taken off at the door, and there would be a few inches of wood you had to step over to get into the interior.

the japanese still retain the custom of kneeling on floors today- but i bet you think of it as "cool", "exotic" or "zen". There was just no expectations or real need of chairs. What does it say about Western civilisation when the floor was so dirty and caked with mud and shit that you had to invent chairs just to be able to rest?

and what even was England or even Germany in 400 AD anyway? probably just a bunch of earth and stone hovels where druid shamans still wore animal skins and danced around giant rocks. The only shining beacon of civilisation in ancient Europe was the Romans and Greeks. And it was to the Romans whom the Chinese made contact and traded with.