### 252580458 canopied beds functioned as sub-rooms > a canopied bed or babu bed (babu beds being the most extravagant of the two). They were akin to a room within a room, complete with a table, hanging balls or censers to waft incense around, and, sometimes, steps leading up to it. I cannot stress enough how elaborate these pieces were, with jaw-dropping tapestries, carvings, and other design elements making them nothing short of spectacular. Its curtains offered privacy and another avenue for impressing guests, with elaborate depictions of folk tales and other well-known characters gracing the interior. [One of my favorite examples](https://www.ichongqing.info/2019/05/31/a-bed-with-over-200-grams-of-gold/) is a canopied bed from the Chongqing Bayu Folk-Custom Museum in Yubei District, Chongqing -- its construction supposedly took multiple craftsman several years to complete, with hundreds of grams of gold that went into painting it. - [View Highlight](https://reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/r189so/looking_for_info_on_the_historical_practice_of?__readwiseLocation=0%2F2%2F0%2F4%2F2%2F1%2F0%2F0%2F0%2F1%2F0%2F0%2F0%2F4%2F1%2F0%2F1%2F0%2F0%2F0%2F5%2F1%2F0%2F3%3A73%2C2%2F2%2F0%2F4%2F2%2F1%2F0%2F0%2F0%2F1%2F0%2F0%2F0%2F4%2F1%2F0%2F1%2F0%2F0%2F0%2F5%2F1%2F0%2F3%3A231#:~:text=a%20canopied%20bed%20or%20babu%2Cthat%20went%20into%20painting%20it.) - [[noble Chinese girls growing up without leaving their bed by pineyapples#252580458 canopied beds functioned as sub-rooms|View in Vault]]