From the excavation of Banpo, Jiangzhai and other sites, the stove kang near the door in its original house is a combination of cooking and heating. It can not only absorb the oxygen blown in from the outside to help burn, but also block the cold wind blown in from the door in winter. Some people burn charcoal fire indoors to keep warm.
In the Neolithic Age, Yangshao cultural residents who mastered manual fire-making often dug a small pit in the center of the house where they settled, surrounded by bricks and stones, to make a fire for heating and cooking. This is the origin of the fire pit.
mode of heating
In the Song Dynasty, a kind of heating tool similar to the existing hot water bottle appeared, called "Tang Popo" and "Jiaopo". It's a pumpkin-shaped round pot, made of tin or copper, with a small mouth left on it to hold hot water, and then put it in a cloth bag to achieve the heating effect. The ancients also invented a room with adjustable temperature with superb wisdom, which is called "temperature control room".
During the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, cotton gradually replaced silk and hemp and became an important natural fiber crop in China. In ancient times, leather clothing-furs, royal aristocrats generally used high-grade animal hair such as sheepskin and fox skin, while Shu Ren used inferior sheepskin or dog skin. In addition, in order to keep out the cold, ancient people would choose to eat some healthy food to supplement calories in winter. In addition to eating, Chu people also drank wine to keep warm, and people at that time had already discovered this characteristic of wine.