In ancient times, there was no heating in winter, how could they resist the cold wave?

For ancient people, there were not such advanced living conditions as they are now. So a small cold can kill people. The ancient people could not resist the harsh environmental conditions, but for the people of the time, there was still a solution.

One of the most unacceptable is the ancient cold wave, because for the ancient people, they had no heating and floor heating in winter. Surviving the winter became their biggest headache, but the wise ancients still came up with many solutions.

One of them is in dressing, and nowadays many people wear down jackets in winter. However, the ancients did not have down cotton, so they had to use cotton instead. So in ancient times, farmers would grow cotton and start sewing clothes for the winter season.

For the wealthy, they would buy some animal hair to make a coat and drape it over their clothes to protect them from the cold. However, despite the emergence of cotton, many people still lose their lives every year due to the wind cold.

In addition to sewing clothes from cotton, ancient people would also sew some small items, such as gloves and scarves. In winter, wrap it as thickly as possible, because ordinary people can't afford to burn charcoal, so they can only make a fire and add some flammable items. It can be seen that the living conditions of the ancients were very simple, but in order to save their lives, everyone still actively prepared the things they needed for the winter.

Everyone knows that the history of the Tukang in the Northeast has been a long time, so there are records about the Tukang during the Han Dynasty. However, the appearance of the earthen kang was not welcomed by everyone, and many people still need to warm the quilt. These tasks of warming the quilt are completed by wives, and the status of women determines fate.

When the husband comes back from an outing, the wife warms up the bed. After reading the way ancient people kept warm, many netizens said that they would be short of a wife when the quilt was ready.

It is recorded in the wild history that in ancient times, rich people would have special rooms for heating, and these were still acceptable. However, in the Tang Dynasty, some aristocratic personnel let women hug themselves in a circle to keep warm in order to survive the winter, and many people also reprimanded this way of heating as too shameless. The way the ancients heated was still very monotonous, unlike now when everyone is heating underneath, and air conditioning can solve the problem of winter.

It is precisely because of the wisdom of the ancients that it will inspire future generations. Although the appearance of the soil kang was not popular at that time, the soil pit is a life-saving thing for the people of Northeast China now, and the emergence of the soil kang has also benefited mankind. However, seeing the way the ancients warmed the bed, many people may not be able to accept it.

If the ancients lived alone, then they could only warm their own quilts.

The physique of the body is different, the physical fitness of the ancient people is very strong, ordinary people wear cotton jackets, and the rich wear clothes made of animal fur. In this way, it is basically not very cold, and the ancients will burn the kang when they sleep, so they will not be woken up by the cold without heating.

Most families will put a charcoal brazier on the kang and it will be burned very hot. If it is too cold in winter, a pot full of hot water will be boiled, and then the steam will be released into the house to keep warm from the cold.

They should be able to burn the brazier. And this thing has appeared in many costume dramas, so I think it's very likely to be like this.

In the Tang Dynasty, people made hand stoves out of copper. The hand stove is oval-shaped, with fire or ash that still has residual heat, and the stove is covered with a cover that can be placed inside the sleeve to warm your hands. The foot stove is larger than the hand stove and can be placed under the feet to warm your feet.

In addition, there is also a foot warmer, commonly known as the soup woman, which is filled with hot water and placed in the quilt at night; In the Qin Dynasty, skilled craftsmen built the walls of the palace into a hollow sandwich wall, commonly known as the "fire wall", which can be heated by entering the wall, such as the fire wall structure of the Xianyang Palace site in the Qin Dynasty is very famous; The earliest "winter clothes" used by humans to keep warm should be animal skins. People use animal skins to make simple clothes to cover their bodies and keep them warm, which also establishes the irreplaceable position of animal fur in the history of human warmth.

There are many ways for modern people to keep warm from the cold, indoor heating, air conditioning, outdoor cotton clothes, warm clothes, down jackets to keep warm, warm and lively in winter.

The foot is the farthest away from the heart, the blood ** is slow and less, the subcutaneous fat layer is thinner, the warmth is poor, once the cold is cold, it will reflexively cause the respiratory tract mucosal capillary constriction, so that the disease resistance is reduced, resulting in upper respiratory tract infection, therefore, the warmth of the feet should be especially strengthened.

Wear more clothes and bake the brazier.

In the era when there was no heating, how did the ancients survive the winter? Winter is a very difficult season, not only to wear a thick down jacket, but also to turn on the air or heating when you go indoors, although the winter is very difficult now, but the current conditions are not better than in ancient times. Many people will definitely think of the cotton clothes they wear in the costume film and television dramas we usually watch, or other ways, but according to the research of historians, there was no empty withering and heating in ancient times, and there was not as advanced technology as we have now, and there was not even a cotton jacket, because cotton has only been available since the Yuan Dynasty, so how did people in ancient times keep warm in winter?

1.Use a warm pavilion to keep warm

First, use a warm pavilion to keep warm. The ancient warm pavilion is similar to our current floor heating, there is a building called the warm pavilion in the ancient palace, and it is also a special winter place for the emperor, this kind of pavilion is hollow, there will be a special pipe under the warm pavilion room, which can put some red-hot charcoal for charcoal fire, and the servants will burn charcoal under the attic, so that the heating will pass into the warm pavilion, and the emperor will feel that the soles of his feet are hot, so that the whole house is very warm, It's just that this method can only be used by the emperor, and the ordinary people can't enjoy this kind of treatment.

2.I warm myself with a stove and a hot spring woman

Second, use a stove and a soup bowl to keep warm. In ancient times, it was very commonly used to be a stove or brazier, which was the most direct and economical way to heat up, from the royal relatives to the common people, everyone liked it very much, and this heating method was also very common. However, unlike a stove, a stove can be lit with a little firewood, and the stove needs charcoal and coal to light it, which requires a lot of financial resources, so it is more commonly used in large households.

Wealthy people can also use it, and under normal circumstances, poor people can't afford to use such a warm tool. During the Song Dynasty, a special warmth tool appeared, and that was Tang Pozi. When we watch costume dramas, we often see that similar to our current hand warmers, this kind of cost is relatively low, and it is a commonly used heating artifact for ordinary people.

3.Eat some healthy food or wine to replenish energy to keep warm

Third, eat some healthy food or wine to replenish energy to keep warm. The average poor person could not afford to burn either charcoal or coal. In the cold winter, in order to keep out the cold, the ancients would choose to eat some healthy food to replenish their energy.

Ginger and warm foods such as dog meat and lamb are generally chosen. In addition, people would also drink some alcohol to keep warm from the cold, and at that time, people discovered that they could keep out the cold.

Nowadays, in the cold winter months, we have air conditioning and heatingNever worry about the cold again. But in the era of science and technology, the ancients tried every way to resist the cold of winter, and it is precisely because of the wisdom of the ancient people that we have now, and many of the current warmth technology is also evolved step by step from the ancients.

In ancient times, there was no heating, people wore thick clothes for the winter, and there was no machinery in ancient times, people needed to work by themselves to eat, labor would sweat, the body would be warm, and it would not be too cold.

In ancient times, people would burn the earth dragon in winter, and poor people would burn kang, but in ancient times, many people would freeze to death in winter.

Ordinary households burn charcoal or firewood for the winter. Wealthy families would use animal fur to make fur coats to keep them warm for the winter.

The ancients would choose to burn something in winter, or make a hand stove to survive the winter, but ordinary people did not have such conditions.

Ancient people also had a lot of heating equipment, for example, they would put some stoves in the house, they would hold the kind of hand warmer with carbon fire in their hands, etc., and they would also drink boiled wine to keep warm.

The ancients did not have modern electric heaters, and the main heating tools were braziers and stoves, among which smokers, hand stoves, foot stoves, etc., should be the most commonly used heating appliances in winter by the ancient Chinese.

The smoker is actually a charcoal brazier with a cover and a companion, which is divided into two parts, the lower part is the basin, and the upper part is the cover, which is hollowed out and made into a floral pattern. The copper used in the palace is generally made of copper, and the workmanship is exquisite.

Folk mostly use clay and iron to make it. The hand stove is a small stove used to warm hands, delicate and exquisite, with various shapes, and the charcoal or the ashes of the stove that still have residual heat are placed inside, and the stove is covered outside. It can even be put in the sleeve to warm your hands, and it is also known as "hand warmer" and "fire cage".

The foot stove was larger than the hand stove and was a flat bottle made of tin or copper, filled with hot water (a bit like a hot water bag today), mainly used to burn the feet, which could be carried around in the grip or placed in the bed. This furnace is also called "foot woman" and "soup woman". Wall of Fire.

During the Qin and Han dynasties, a fire wall came out, and the inside of the wall was hollow, and firewood was placed inside, and the whole house was very warm after the wall was heated. Its derivative is the fire kang, which is found in many Northeast families. Compared with the first kang, the heating of the fire wall is more three-dimensional to the indoor space, and the structure of the wall is also more demanding.

Therefore, the unreasonable indoor space, or the insufficient insulation of the external maintenance structure, and the inappropriate selection of fire wall materials will have an impact on the comfort of the fire wall.

In ancient times, people used gray squirrel skin and fox skin to make large hats, cloaks, and hats, which were thick and warm.

The hand stove can be called the ancient "warm baby", which can be carried around, and has the elegant name of "sleeve stove" and "holding the stove". The hand stove is oval-shaped, with charcoal or ash still hot inside, and a cover on the outside of the stove, which can be placed in the sleeve to warm your hands. As the name suggests, the "foot stove" is used to warm the feet, and in addition, there is a foot warmer bottle, which is filled with hot water and placed in the quilt at night.

Huang Tingjian in the Song Dynasty wrote a poem that said, "Thousands of dollars buy foot mothers, and sleep night and night." "It's this kind of warmer that is funny. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, most of the firewood and charcoal were burned for heating in winter, and the wealthy people often used the exquisite brazier to burn high-quality charcoal, while the ordinary people often used the mud pot to fill the straw and straw in the brazier for heating.

Heating in winter

Winters tend to be colder and longer, and the "ondol" has become a good way to resist the cold. The kang has a stove and a cigarette mouth, which are used for fire heating and smoke exhaust respectively. If there is really no condition, the ancients made use of the warm sunlight as much as possible, and when building a house, they would choose the base belt calendar to choose the direction of "sitting north and facing south", so that the warm sunlight would shine into the house.

Or take refuge in some cellars that are warm in winter and cool in summer, and add a little extra straw to it.

The palace heating facilities are more exquisite, the skilled craftsmen build the walls of the palace into a hollow sandwich wall, there is a fire channel dug under the wall, there is a pores at the end of the fire channel to exhaust the smoke, the charcoal mouth of the fire is under the eaves of the house, after the charcoal fire is burned, the heat can be transmitted and sent to the whole house along the sandwich wall, this kind of sandwich wall is called "fire wall".

The ancients relied mainly on fire for heating.

Fire pits, fire walls, fire kangs, stoves, and ground kangs are the most common heating methods of the ancients. These heating methods basically rely on the combustion of charcoal to obtain heat. Therefore, charcoal burning has always been very particular in ancient China.

The Tang Dynasty royal used "imported coal" for heating, and Wang Renyu had a record of "Rui Tan" in the "Kaiyuan Tianbao Legacy" during the Five Dynasties: Xiliang Kingdom entered 100 pieces of charcoal, each with more than one foot long. Its charcoal is blue, hard as iron, and its name is Rirui charcoal.

Burned in the furnace, there is no flame but there is light. Each can be burned for ten days, and its heat is pressing, and it is not approachable.

In ancient times, the luxury of heating was astonishing. Yang Guozhong kneaded a double phoenix with charcoal chips and honey, and burned it in the furnace in the cold winter, and spread it on the bottom of the furnace with precious white wood, so that it would be spotless.

way of heating

During the Song Dynasty, there was a kind of heating tool similar to the current hot water bottle, called "Tang Po Zi" and "Foot Po", a pumpkin-shaped round pot made of tin or copper, with a small mouth left on it to pour hot water, and then put it into a cloth bag to achieve the effect of heating Sakura Zhaoye. The ancients, with their superb wisdom, also invented a room that could regulate the temperature, called the "temperature adjustment room".

By the time of the Yuan and Ming dynasties, cotton gradually partially replaced silk and linen and became an important natural fiber crop in China. In ancient leather clothing, the royal family and nobles generally used high-grade animal hair such as lambskin and fox white fur, while the common people used inferior sheepskin or dog skin. In addition, in order to keep out the cold, ancient people would choose to eat some healthy foods in winter to supplement calories.

In addition to eating, the Chu people also drank alcohol to keep warm from the cold, and people at that time had already discovered this characteristic of wine.