I never want to use a bamboo mat again in my life, although it is cool, but there is really a shade.
I bought it for 200 yuan, spread it on the bed and wiped it many times, but there were super long thorns, and when I scrubbed it, I put it directly into my hands through thick wipes twice, and I slept at night, and I felt that people were going to be pierced by the mat.
Every time I see a bamboo mat, my memory goes back to when I was a child, when the mat was hand-woven by the master from bamboo one by one, and it took several days to make a bamboo mat.
At that time, in the summer, every household slept on this kind of mat, and wiped it with a towel every night before going to bed, and it was very cool without an electric fan or air conditioner.
Why was mattress toppers popular at that time?
(1) Low price
In the past, people who lived in rural areas knew that they had bamboo gardens, and they could cut bamboo and ask a master to process and make it.
If you buy a ready-made one, you only need 30-40 yuan a piece, the price is relatively low, and every family can afford it.
But now, a handmade bamboo mat is sold for more than 1,000 yuan.
(2) The material is natural
At that time, the mats were all made of pure natural materials, which was in line with people's consumption concept of health and environmental protection.
Most mattresses are made of natural plants such as bamboo and thatch, and do not contain chemical additives, making them natural household items.
(3) Good cooling effect
The mat has an environmentally friendly and energy-saving cooling effect, because it is a natural material, it has good breathability, in the hot weather in summer, lying on the mat is cold and cold, very cool and comfortable, relieves the heat, and improves the quality of sleep.
(4) Easy to use
The use and maintenance are also very simple, spread the mat on the bed, make a basin of hot water every night before going to bed, add some toilet water to the hot water, and wipe it clean with a hot towel.
Usually dirty only need to be rinsed with clean water, there is no complicated maintenance method, saving time and effort.
In the 80s and 90s, it can be said that mattresses are a must-have for every family, but nowadays, there are fewer and fewer people using mattresses, why will it quietly withdraw from our daily life?
The mattress fell from behind the altar
(1) The quality is not as good as before
The quality of the mat in the past was really good, the traditional hand-weaving, some of the slurry to the oil slippery cold mat, with decades of no problem, it was really the tears of happiness in that era.
Nowadays, it is difficult to buy good quality, most of the mats on the market are made of inferior materials, not only the service life is very short, but the use experience is not good, such as damage, burrs, broken bamboo, broken tendon line, thatch broken or hardened, etc.
(2) It is easy to hurt people
Many netizens reported that there are a lot of barbs on the mat, which is very prickly, and in addition, there are shortcomings such as clamping hair, meat, hooking clothes, and pressing out mat marks on the body.
In particular, those mats with rough workmanship are often exposed to stabbing the human body.
A netizen said that it was so miserable, when he slept until midnight and turned over, a large thorn pierced into his buttocks, and was pulled out hard, and when he got up in the morning, he saw that his buttocks were swollen and he had tetanus.
Therefore, many people love and hate the mat, although it is cool to sleep, but because of the old stabbing, they have to change it.
(3) It is easy to become black and mildew
The mattress is easy to become black and moldy, this is because the human body is easy to sweat in summer, and the mat is soaked with sweat and sebum, which is easy to breed bacteria, resulting in black and moldy.
Also, back to Nantian, or the bed cushion is too much, not conducive to heat dissipation, it is also easy to mold, if you find mold, it is recommended to use dish soap, edible alkali, white vinegar, add an appropriate amount of flower water, stir evenly, spray on the mat with a brush to brush back and forth, and then clean with water, put it in a cool and ventilated place to dry.
(4) Cleaning trouble
Due to the huge volume and special material structure of the mat, it is very laborious to clean, especially the mahjong mat, which is heavy and difficult to brush, and it is particularly difficult to turn over the surface, and it is very difficult for one person to drag it.
(5) Lack of comfort
Although the cooling effect of the mat is good, it is too hard and slippery, and has the characteristics of "hard" and "cool", and some mattresses have poor sleep comfort due to rough materials or unreasonable design, such as sticky back, rashes, body aches, and frozen shoulder.
Some netizens said that after sleeping on the mat and getting up, the whole back hurts, this is because the cool feeling of the mat comes from the bamboo fiber itself, its specific heat capacity is large, it can absorb more heat from the body, heat dissipation is fast, and people naturally feel cool.
For people with a cold body, sleeping on a bamboo mat for a long time will lead to an increase in the cold in the body, which in turn will induce body cold, and uncomfortable symptoms such as cold hands and feet, and sensitivity to cold.
(6) It is no longer necessary after turning on the air conditioner
Mattresses, in the era when there was no air conditioning, were indeed a must-have artifact for summer.
But after the air conditioner, it is no longer a summer necessity, as soon as the air conditioner is turned on, set a suitable temperature, and sleep on the sheets is more comfortable, so the traditional mattress no longer has a "sense of superiority".
Summary at the end of the article:
The times are constantly advancing, life is constantly improving, and the once popular "mat" is also fading out of countless Chinese families.
We miss the coolness and comfort brought to us by the mat, it has left good memories in the long river of years, may we cherish the past, meet the future, and make life better!
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