Coffee shops and tea houses are important places for people to drink. The seats and sitting environment have their own characteristics and express the connotations of drinking culture. The work aims to select the seats and sitting environment of the two as the comparative research objects, make clear the reasons for the gathering and dispersion of sitting environment through their differences, and analyze the emotional comfort of the sitting environment to people under the unique local characteristics, so as to expand the benign innovative design path that adapts to the changes of the times and meet the spiritual and psychological needs of all levels. The coffee shops of Shanghai and tea houses of Chengdu were selected as the research objects. By comparing how to sit and drink in the two places and corresponding details, the application history and local attributes of the seats and the changing process of the seats in their respective representative spaces in the two subdivided business spaces were sorted out. After comparison, the analysis showed that the seats in the city had evolved through five stages:application as instrument, penetration, integration, human organization and emotional transference. It could be summarized as the formation path of urban culture from instrument to place spirit, which was closely related to people's philosophy of existence and living habits. The urban image can be analyzed through the usual sitting environment, which pays attention to the space and place formed by the sit creation and its spirit, shapes the charm of the city and people's livelihood feelings with fine material design, analyzes people's perception of interest, and promotes the inclusive coexistence, integrated development and habit communication of "drinking" culture among cities.