In ancient times when there was no cotton, what could the ancients cover at night to keep warm?

In ancient times, quilts were also covered, but the quilts were not stuffed with cotton, but those poplars and catkins, which they would collect in the spring and stuff into the quilts, and keep them warm when they were covered at night.

In ancient times, they also had the same quilts as we do now. Poplar and catkins are generally used as fillings. It was also very warm.

The poor are nothing more than straw, linen or kang to keep warm, and the rich can use silk and charcoal in the house to keep warm, although these methods are more troublesome or costly, but they also have the effect of keeping warm.

The rich would cover their homes with animal skins for warmth, and the poor would use straw and catkins for heating.

Ancient people used kapok for heating very early, the kapok fiber is short, fine and soft, and the hollow rate is high, which is very suitable for making cold items. High-end animal skins such as lamb skins and fox white furs are of course used by the royal family and nobles, and ordinary people can also use inferior sheepskins or dog skins.

Silk and linen have been used as a raw material for clothing fabrics for most of Chinese history. Hemp is not only used as a raw material for textiles, hemp can be made into hemp rope and the like, and silk wool is a raw material for making bedding and winter clothes. It was not until the Yuan Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty that cotton gradually partially replaced silk and linen as an important natural fiber crop in China.

Since the Xia Dynasty in China, about 4,000 years, the clothing of the ancient Chinese people was mainly silk and linen in the first 3,000 years, and gradually changed to cotton in the next 1,000 years. The Song, Yuan and Ming dynasties were the transition period when cotton replaced silk and linen. In the Song Dynasty, cotton and cotton fabrics were still rare.

Since the Ming Dynasty, silk cotton and silk fabrics have become rare treasures.

There are mainly 2 kinds of quilts, 1 is a relatively thin bedding (quilt) that is used to cover when taking a nap, and 2 is a thicker quilt that is used to cover when resting at night.

The ancients generally used these things to keep warm when they slept, the first is the fur of animals, the ancients generally hunted animals to fill their stomachs, and then used animal bones to make living tools, and animal fur will be used for people to warm the cold, because animals can be seen everywhere at that time, so animal fur has also become a very common way to keep warm.

Generally, the quilt covered is a hemp quilt, or a quilt made of plant fibers. This kind of quilt is generally not very warm and very difficult to clean.

Cotton was introduced to China during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, but it is a pity that cotton was regarded as an ornamental flower by people at that timeIt was not widely used until the end of the Song Dynasty and the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty。Before that, ancient people had to use other things to keep warm when they slept in winter.

1.Skins. The use of animal skins for heating has been around for thousands of years.

In ancient times, productivity was low, and before there was a better way to heat the house, many people at that time would use animal fur for heating. And it is not limited to the use of nobles, ancient hunters, ordinary people will also use animal fur to keep warm, animal fur has a good warmth effect, ancient people rely on them to resist the cold winter.

2.Quilt. Although there was no cotton in ancient times, there were catkins and reeds.

But the warmth will be much worse, and it will not be soft enough. Therefore, the wise ancient people would lay a thick straw on the bed to keep out the cold, and most people would also make a charcoal stove at home, which was both economical and affordable, and the heating effect was also very goodPeople also make ondols and fire walls, which have a hollow interior and can heat the house from the inside, so that the whole house will be very warm

3.Duck goose down duvet. This kind of quilt is light and warm, the ancients will use good cloth to sew goose down quilt or duck down quilt when winter comes, although the warmth is excellent, stupid search but unfortunately, this material is of high value, generally with shirts appeared in aristocratic homes.

Ordinary people rarely enjoy this kind of treatment. It is worth mentioning that the duck and goose down quilt has been a good warm bedding until now.

4.Wool quilt. This kind of thing can only be enjoyed by rich and noble families. Wool is long and warm, practical and beautiful, the ancients directly used fur as a quilt or collected wool to make a quilt, the warmth is very good.

Soup PoziIf the ancient people slept if they were not warm enough, they would use an item called Tang Pozi, the appearance is ceramic + copper, the lid can be opened, and hot water can be placed inside, similar to the current hot water bottle, the advantage is that it is easy to carry, ** is not high, and it can also be used during the day. The warmth is very good.

The ancients slept in winter covered with a quilt made of silk and satin, and some fillers were added, such as cow hair, rabbit hair, wool, chicken feathers and goose feathers. And this kind of quilt is also very friendly and warm, and it is also very light.

Silk linen, as well as animal fur, or some plants are used to make quilts and cover the body to keep warm.

Animal fur and craftsmanship are gradually refined, so that they can be used to keep warm and play an important role in keeping warm.

Silk summer cloth, there is still the appearance of living beings, otherwise some creatures are used to make quilts and cover the body to keep warm.

They generally take animal fur to keep out the cold, animal fur is the main supplies of the ancients to resist the wheel cold, because some people are raising geese, and they can also be kept warm for the filling of the sentenced forest, so in order to meet the demand, people have found alternatives, such as reeds can also play a role in keeping warm.

It will use animal fur as a tool for heating through hunting, and set up to make other products, and it still has many functions.

At that time, when the ancients slept, they would also use quilts or other animal fur to keep warm.

Since the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, in about 4,000 years, the clothing of the ancient Chinese people was mainly silk and linen in the first 3,000 years, and gradually changed to cotton in the next 1,000 years.

In ancient times, cloth clothes were made of linen, and many people died because of the cold in ancient times.

For those who can hunt, the hunted animals are tanned into animal skin clothes.

The more advanced ones, such as the emperor, wore clothes made of silk, which were said to be warm in winter and cool in summer, or clothes made of high-grade animal fur such as fox fur.

Ancient Chinese native textile materials, mainly kudzu, hemp, silk, wool. In winter, when it comes to keeping out the cold, let's make a fuss about these materials. The most common cold-proof material is silk wadding, which is divided into high-grade and low-grade, high-grade silk wadding, also known as "silk", and low-grade is the scrap material used with screws, called "缊".

This material is mainly used to make cotton robes, and the sentence in the Book of Songs, "How can it be said that there is no clothes, and the same robe with the son", which is covered with this kind of robe.

Of course, for the poor, wearing a robe with "纩" is a luxury, basically wearing "缊", and the robe filled with a "缊", the cold-proof effect is also very poor, even when many celebrities are unwilling, they have made bitter things about this, such as the famous Warring States Zengzi, when he was unwilling, he wore this, and he rolled up his sleeves in the winter to see the elbow, so he contributed an idiom: stretched!

And on the rich people, not only is it good to wear, but also this high-end cotton robe is worn inside the clothes, and there is a layer of smock outside. If you have money or not, you will see how the robe is worn inside and out. But relying only on this, in the cold winter of ancient times, it was not enough to keep warm, and it was necessary to wear a cotton jacket, of course, it was not called a cotton jacket at that time, it was called a "shirt".

Miserable, the one you wear is called "brown", and it is also a kind of coarse cloth clothes. In the Tang Dynasty, the shirt was changed to a jacket, and the high-end ones were made of fur, which had a better warmth effect, and they were not too rich at that time, and they basically couldn't afford to wear them!

Of course, in addition to silk wool materials, animal fur clothes are also necessary to keep out the cold, but high-end fur clothes are basically the patents of the aristocratic and rich, and the common people can't count on them.

If you can't count on it, you can imagine how difficult winter was for most people in the era when there was no cotton. Listen to the poems of the great poet Du Fu: Bu Shu has been cold like iron for many years, and the arrogant child is evil and cracked.

That is, the quilts are as cold as iron. This is still Du Fu's house in late autumn, what is the colder and harsh winter like? I shudder to think about it.

A lament is the epitome of how many poor families were sad in winter in those years.