After the Opium War, it was introduced to my country (158 years ago), and the Qing government in Daoguang (1842) accepted bribes from the British Empire. Now the Forbidden City in Beijing has a photo of Cixi sitting on a sofa as evidence. Since then, businessmen from Britain, France, and Tsarist Russia have sold sofas to China for the rich and powerful, monopolizing the Chinese market.

At the end of the 14th year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty (1888), there was a Chinese man named Mao Maolin in Shanghai who bought old goods and old wooden wares after an interval of 46 years. Then he started to conduct research, and then he opened the first sofa store in Shanghai at the entrance of an alley near Hong Kong Road, Sichuan Middle Road, Shanghai, named "Anyans", and also operated Simmons imported from the Netherlands and Belgium.

In the 1930s, the development of sofas in Shanghai was relatively prosperous. There were more than 1,000 households. The more things were cheap, the prices were relatively low. With the turmoil of the war and the Cultural Revolution, in the 1980s, the sofa industry entered a golden age, and thousands of households flooded into it. Household for people to enjoy.

Mao Maolin in Shanghai is the founder of my country's sofa and Shanghai is also the birthplace of the sofa industry.