What did you rely on for warmth in ancient times?

The main heating tools of the ancients were braziers and stoves.

The main heating tools of the ancients were braziers and stoves. The history of ancient people using fire to keep warm began since the Sui Dynasty trained teachers to drill wood for fire. The ancients put kindling into a container, which is a brazier. With the progress of production technology, brazier has developed from clay pot to clay pot, and then to copper pot and iron pot. Ordinary people can only use simple braziers, but the heating methods of rich people are very particular.

The main fuel of the fireplace is coal, and there are smoke holes outside to avoid carbon smoke poisoning. In addition, a pipeline with two interlocking tiles was found in the middle wall of the site, which was connected with the stove to form a fire wall, and the prototype of the fire resistance was already available.

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A heavy smoker is a charcoal fire basin with a hood, which is divided into two parts, the lower part is a basin, and the upper part is a hollow shield engraved with exquisite patterns. Smokers are generally owned by wealthy families, and a bronze Boshan furnace dedicated to incense and air purification appeared in the Han Dynasty. 1953, an exquisite fuming stove with a phoenix button on the top was found in the tomb of Zhou Chu in the Jin Dynasty in Yixing, Jiangsu Province.

In the early winter of the Tang Dynasty, there was a smoking stove in the main hall of the palace. According to the "Kaiyuan Tianbao Legacy", the royal family in the Tang Dynasty used imported coal for heating: Xiliang imported hundreds of charcoal, each of which was more than a foot long, and its charcoal blue was as hard as iron, so it was called Ruitan. Burning in the furnace, with light and no flame, can burn for ten days each, and its hot air is close.