The appearance of the "chicken feather house" has, to a certain extent, brought hope to the low-level people who could not afford to wear clothes and not have enough to eat, at least, in the chicken feather house, they could endure one long night after another, bringing the slightest hope of survival to these poor people. What exactly is the "chicken feather room", and how many people know?
Behind the prosperity of the Qing Dynasty was the displacement of the people
The Qing Dynasty was the last feudal dynasty in Chinese history, and similarly, it did not cross the 300-year mark and eventually disappeared into the sea of people. The Qing Dynasty gave birth to the last prosperous era of Chinese feudal society - "Kangqian Prosperous Era", speaking of "Kangqian Prosperous Era", Kangxi opened up the territory of the Qing Dynasty to the maximum, Yongzheng's diligence restored some vitality for the Qing Dynasty, and Qianlong, the longest reigning emperor of the Qing Dynasty, did not have too many merits that could be obtained.
During the Qianlong period, many of the affairs were spread among the people, and he squandered the few money of the Qing Dynasty like the second generation of the rich. During Qianlong's reign, he went to the south of the Yangtze River many times, which consumed a lot of people's and material resources and added a heavy burden to the people of the country. The people of the Qing Dynasty, even during the prosperous Kangqian period, mostly lived a life of poverty.
However, the rulers of the Qing Dynasty thought that this was something they had always been proud of, the children of the Eight Banners were invincible, and the idea of the Heavenly Empire was full of the rulers' hearts.
In 1840, when the rulers of the Qing Dynasty were bombarded with guns by foreign invaders, it was only then that we opened our eyes to the world and found that there were too many people left behind. The Manchu aristocratic class, accustomed to enclosing land and running horses, initially occupied wasteland, and slowly began to encircle arable land.
In ancient agrarian societies, arable land was everything to the people. The people who have been seized from their farmland have no source of livelihood, they cannot take care of food and drink, and they cannot even talk about clothing? What is more, it is not easy for a family to have a complete set of clothes to go out.
"Young man, sleep on the cool kang, all rely on firepower", but in that winter in ancient times, you really can't rely on firepower alone to get through. The chicken feather house has come into people's field of vision, providing warmth for the poor people and beggars.
What is a "feather house"?
"Chicken Feather House" is a unique beautiful scenery in Beijing in winter, and its appearance is to provide warmth for the homeless or poor people. As the name suggests, a "chicken feather house" is a house full of chicken feathers.
In some of the fringes of the city of Beijing, you will see chicken feather houses. The chicken feather room itself is not big, there is no furniture in it, and some are just "chicken feathers". Poor beggars and common people had to rely on this way to keep warm. They walked into the room and lay down on the thick chicken feather floor, the room was not large, and there were many people crowded, relying on body temperature and chicken feathers to resist the cold of the night.
In addition to laying chicken feathers on the floor, there is also a box hanging on the top of the house, and when everyone is lying down, the chicken feathers in the box can be poured down, so that the people lying under it can be covered with a layer of chicken feather quilt. Relying on chicken feathers to keep warm, relying on body temperature to keep warm, all kinds of people from three religions and nine streams gather in the chicken feather room, and the smell inside can be imagined, but the only advantage is that it is really warm when there are many people.
"Chicken feather room" is not the social welfare institution house at that time, it itself also needs to make a profit, according to records, such a bad condition of the chicken feather room, the accommodation fee is 2-3 money, if you can't pay the money, even such a bad condition of the chicken feather room can not live, just imagine, thin clothes people in the cold wind in the cold cold overnight, the consequences are unimaginable. As a result, the chicken feather house has become the last straw for the beggars and the poor at the bottom, which is tearful to think about.
postscript
"Zhumen wine and meat stink, the road has frozen bones", the ups and downs of the feudal dynasty, the people have always been at the bottom of the society, under the feudal dynasty, life is still so difficult, not to mention freedom and the value of life.
Just imagine, they can only huddle in the smelly chicken feather house for the winter on countless cold nights, and the next day they have to work hard to earn the 2 yuan accommodation fee, so that they will not sleep on the road that night, which is tearful to think about.
Time flies, the Manchu Qing Dynasty is destroyed in a blink of an eye, only in our memory, and the chicken feather house has faded out of people's field of vision, life is getting better and better, what reason do we have not to work hard?