The origins of the sofa can be traced back to ancient Egypt around 2000 BC, but the true meaning of the soft package sofa appeared in the late sixteenth century to the early seventeenth century. At that time the sofa mainly with horse mane, poultry feathers, plant villi and other natural elastic material as a filler, outside with velvet, embroidery and other fabrics masked to form a soft body contact surface. Farthingle chairs, popular in Europe, were one of the earliest sofa chairs. Review of China's sofa history, to devaluation of the Han Dynasty "jade". "Xijing Miscellanies" in the description of the thick layer of fabric tied with a "jade", can be seen as the Chinese sofa "ancestors."