In recent years, the climate problem has received a lot of attention, hot and cold temperature so that many people do not know what to wear in the end is appropriate, not long ago, Shanghai such a city located in the southern tip of the motherland actually snowed, many citizens and friends have never seen such a scene, rejoicing but also rushed to buy a single down jacket online to keep cold.
At this time, many people wondered, the ancients did not have down jackets, how did they spend the cold winter? It may surprise a lot of people because they are much more comfortable with the cold than we think.
The ancient people's way of keeping warm
Modern people will choose to wear down jackets or cotton clothes when going out in winter, plus they generally do not walk when they go out, and they will take transportation, so it is not difficult to spend winter. If you feel cold at home, you will turn on the air conditioning or heating, or basking in the sun on the balcony will also be warm and melted, then people in ancient times had no scientific inventions, and lack of materials, how did they spend the winter? In fact, they have many ways.
I think many people have heard the word "cat winter", this word means that the winter weather is cold, people stay honestly at home, do not go out and walk around, so as to reduce the chance of cold and cold, after all, cold is fatal in ancient times, followed by hiding at home to avoid frostbite, so people will "cat up".
"Cat winter" is a lot of people yearn for, but only hiding at home can not be completely warm, but also need to wear more clothes, in ancient times people wore cotton clothes in the padding is generally cotton, but because the ancient textile technology development is not good, to make a cotton coat takes a long time, and the price of cloth is expensive, ordinary people can afford to wear patched clothes is already a good family, not to mention adding cotton in it.
So there are many people going up the mountain to hunt, sewing the animal fur together to make clothes to keep warm, which not only saves costs, but also has better warmth than ordinary cotton fabrics, and the rich and noble families also wear tiger skin and fox skin as a symbol of the magnate, which can refer to Cao Xueqin's "Dream of the Red Chamber" in the description of clothes.
There is also a way is to burn charcoal, mention the charcoal fire, perhaps the first thing everyone thinks of is "sending charcoal in the snow", in the cold winter of the north wind, a pot of charcoal fire is so precious! In ancient times, houses were mostly made of wood, and some rich families would use brick to frame the house, but either way, the warmth of the house was not very good, and the cold wind in winter was bone-chilling, but after a while it would break through the wall and invade the room.
So people will choose to burn charcoal for heating, but there are some drawbacks to burning charcoal, one is that the price of charcoal is high, ordinary people can't afford it, and the other is that if the charcoal is not burned enough, it will lead to human poisoning. The Tang Dynasty poet Bai Juyi's poem "Selling Charcoal" wrote about the voices of the poor people and how much of the social sorrow.
So those poor people who can't afford charcoal will choose to go up the mountain to cut firewood and burn fires for warmth. However, because there were no convenient agricultural tools in ancient times, there were not many firewood that could be transported back every day, so the villagers would seize the free time to go up the mountain to cut firewood, accumulating over time, and in the winter, they could almost store enough firewood for the winter.
But the dry firewood burns very fast, and it will get cold in a short while, so people have invented a more cold way, that is, the fire kang.
Now the heating method of kang is still very popular in the northeast region, some friends do not know what the kang is, in fact, its principle is very simple, similar to a box with mouths on both sides, one end is used to ignite firewood, the top can put a large cauldron, used to cook rice and cooking, when the firewood burns, the smoke produced through the entire kang body structure from the exit of the other end, then the whole kang becomes hot, at night, people can block the chimney, so that the hot gas will not run outward, the kang can be kept warm for a whole night.
With the fire kang, another heating method similar to it has also emerged, that is, the fire wall. The fire wall is the idea that people think of when burning the stove, as long as the inside of the wall is opened, it will be found that the principle of the fire wall is the same as the kang, when the fire wall is hot, people will feel comfortable on it, and in ancient times, they were also loved by people, and this will not waste firewood.
In addition, in the older era, the princes and nobles would also choose to use the soup mother and the hand warmer to protect themselves from the cold, what are these two things? In fact, tang po zi and hand warmers are the same as modern hot water bottles, but there was no rubber in ancient times, not as convenient as modern times.
Tang Pozi is also called Tin Lady or Tang Mi, it is a round pot, there are many materials, common is ceramic, copper, or tin, Tang Po Zi has a spiral mouth, from this small mouth to the Tang Po Zi pour hot water, and then tighten the top of the nut to prevent water from overflowing, but the Tang Po Zi heat preservation time is not long, people generally put the Tang Po Zi into the quilt when sleeping at night, after all, in the quilt can ensure that the warmth time is longer.
Later, people innovated on Tang Pozi, so there was a hand warmer. Hand warmer, also known as the Huai furnace, has appeared in many costume dramas, it is novel in style, cold time is long, loved by many boudoir ladies, and the hand warmer is a piece of charcoal, charcoal keeps burning, the hand warmer will continue to heat, people will also make a cloth bag specially used to put the hand warmer, to ensure that the heat dissipation of the hand warmer becomes slower.
Ancient people tried everything to keep warm, but even so, many people were frozen to death, Du Fu's poem once said, "Zhumen wine smells of meat, and the road has frozen bones." This poem reflects the coldness of the world, but also reflects the hardships of people's lives in ancient times, especially in winter, which is even more difficult to survive.
summary
The rapid development of modern science and technology has given us a better way to protect against cold and warmth, but ancient people are also full of wisdom, they use methods such as kang, tang pozi, hand warmer and other methods to resist the cold, but in fact, in ancient times, the climate has been very stable, will not be as hot and cold as now,
Because people don't have so many means to destroy the environment, they don't cut down indiscriminately, they don't use plastic products, they don't cause climate disturbances and the greenhouse effect, and so on. Now it seems that the protection of the environment is a long way to go, in order for mankind to be able to develop sustainably, in order for future generations to have a happy life, from now on we should take the protection of the environment as the top priority, do not regret it when it is irreparable!
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