Emperor Shuang: The counterattack started from the Gaopingling Incident Chapter 516: Sleeping on a fire bed that I am not used to, and making contributions to Jiangdong
Chapter 516: Sleeping on a fire bed that I am not used to, and making contributions to Jiangdong
It wasn't until late at night that Quan Cong, who felt a little sleepy, went to lie down and rest in the main room in the backyard. The "bed" in Liaodong was not like a couch like in Jiangdong, but a fire pit made of earth.
Quan Cong was not used to sleeping very much. Although the quilt on the kang was relatively thick, it still didn't work. He tossed and turned before falling asleep.
The couch evolved from the mat.
In ancient times, in order to avoid dampness and cold, people used leaves and animal skins to make mats for sitting and bedding. It can be said that they were the beginning of later beds.
It was not until the late Western Han Dynasty that the name "couch" began to appear.
For example, "Move my glazed couch" in "Yuefu Poems: The Peacock Flying Southeast" during the Han Dynasty. Xu Shen directly explained ""couch" as "bed" in "Shuowen Jiezi".
The couch is divided into a single couch and a sleeping couch. The single couch is obviously not large in size and is suitable for one person to sit alone. Generally speaking, the status of the user is more noble.
The fire pit is a characteristic of Liaodong and western Liaoning. It is used to keep warm during the cold winter. Quan Cong is not used to sleeping in it, but fortunately it is only the end of August and the cold at night can be resisted by covering it with two quilts.
But if you wait until winter comes, this won't work. You must use dry firewood to burn the fire pit to keep it warm before you can fall asleep.
At the end of the Shang Dynasty, Jizi returned to the north. At this time, the climate became colder, and Liaodong (now Northeast) became a severely cold climate. The people of Liaodong at that time invented the Kang.
Jizi was the son of Wen Ding, the younger brother of Emperor Yi, and the uncle of King Zhou.
Because the country was entrusted to Ji (today's Taigu County, Shanxi), the prince was the son, so he was called Jizi.
Jizi served as Grand Master in the court and assisted in government affairs.
Jizi was upright and talented by nature, specializing in divination of yin and yang, observation of astronomical phenomena, timing and calendaring, in order to guide the country's agricultural affairs, fishery, animal husbandry, or expeditions.
After the fall of the Shang Dynasty, Jizi was granted the title of Joseon. He led the Shang Dynasty elders to cross the ocean with poems, books, ritual music, medicine, yin and yang, witchcraft and other Central Plains culture and etiquette systems, and arrived in the northern part of the Korean Peninsula, north of the Han River.
, Jizi established the Kingdom of Korea, with its capital in what is now Pyongyang, which was called Jicheng at the time.
Before Jizi entered Korea, the social economy of the Korean Peninsula was basically a primitive fishing and hunting economy.
Jizi was entrusted to North Korea and after establishing the dynasty, he brought with him the advanced Yin Shang culture and production technology of the Central Plains. He taught the locals about farming, sericulture, textiles and various handicrafts. He also brought a large number of bronzes and formulated a
The "Eight Prohibitions" legal provisions and other various rules and regulations taught the locals to pay attention to knowledge of rituals, music, medicine, divination and other aspects. Under Jizi's rule, North Korea developed rapidly and was known as the "Oriental Gentleman's Country".
"The Book of Songs. Xiaoya. Hu Ye" says: "The fire kang is called Zhi". It means lifting objects and putting them on the fire for burning, which is different from the fire kang in later generations.
There is also a record of "Kang" in "The Book of Han - Yang Xiong's Biography": "The prime minister of Qin was in the west, suppressed his smoke, kang his energy, attached to his back, and took away his position."
Later, people invented the stove through practice.
This kind of stove is smaller than the kang. Because the fire is placed underground, it has good heat preservation. People can sit or sleep on it, which is very comfortable.
Su Wu of the Western Han Dynasty spent nineteen years shepherding sheep in the freezing weather of the Huns, which was mainly due to this "stove-style" fire kang.
The fire kang has always been popular among the Manchu people. It is both a sleeping facility and a heating facility.
The earliest Kang was an underground Kang. Later, the Donghu, Xiongnu, Wuhuan, Xianbei and other nomadic peoples brought beds from the west, and the Liaodong people changed the underground Kang into a high Kang.
The kangs are all placed near the windows. While maintaining heat, they also provide lighting (in the Central Plains and the South, patios and wall holes are used for lighting, as there is no need for heat preservation).
People in ancient Liaodong had a custom that after a person died, the body should be removed from the window.
At that time, there were no tables and chairs, only desks and desks, which were placed on the kang. In ancient times, people in Liaodong sat on the kang and placed desks on the kang. When sleeping, they removed the desk and put on quilts to use as sleeping couches.
The ancient Liaodong nobles had different Kangs for sleeping, reading, entertainment and eating.
Entering the house, taking off your shoes, and getting on the Kang has been the way of life for Northeastern people for thousands of years.
Fire pits are built with adobe. Wheat straw or weeds are cut into pieces, mixed with yellow mud, and made into pieces of adobe using a fixed mold. After drying in the sun, they are used to build the fire pit.
There are many types of heated Kangs, the most common of which are the Wanzi Kang, the "circling Kang" and the "turning Kang" that are connected to the south, west and north sides of residential buildings.
Another important component of the heated kang is the edge of the kang. The edge of the kang is used to block pillows for sleeping, and also to block the kang mat and other items from falling to the ground.
It is usually made of a long strip of wood more than one inch thick and ten centimeters wide.
The most commonly used wood is birch, which is hard and very smooth.
The Kang mat is spread on the Kang surface, which is hand-woven from the outer skin of sorghum poles. It will be replaced with a new one every year during the Chinese New Year.
In those days, people did not have pajamas to wear or mattresses to sleep on, so they slept naked on the bare kang. When they got up in the morning, they would find pieces of kang mat flowers on their bodies, which looked swollen to the touch. Sometimes they were even tied up on the kang mat.
"prick",
Of course, this is not a problem for high-ranking officials such as Liaodong Governor and Quan Cong. They all have underwear to wear, so they don't have to worry about being pricked.
Ordinary people do not have so much clothing or bedding, so it is inevitable to be pricked by thorns on the kang mat, but for the people of Liaodong, the cold winter nights are warm, and these small thorns are nothing.
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Underwear is the casual clothes worn by the ancients at home. "The Analects of Confucius Xiangdang" says: "A gentleman does not wear gauze, and red and purple are not considered underwear."
An explanatory note from He Yanji quoted Wang Su as saying: "Underwear is private clothing, not guild clothing."
Liu Xiang of the Han Dynasty said in "Biography of Women: Empress Xuan of Zhou Dynasty": "Take off your court clothes and undergarments, and then enter the imperial court to serve as king."
Although he rested relatively late, early the next morning, Quan Cong asked his left and right officers to put on his armor, washed his face with cold water in a hurry, gathered a group of personal guards, got on their horses and headed for the camp outside the city.
At the first quarter of the hour, Quan Cong knelt down at the banquet in the Chinese army's tent, cleared his throat and said, "Come here, beat the drum to gather the generals!"
After a burst of "dong-dong-dong" drums, Quan Cong ordered: "I will order Lieutenant Qin Dan to lead two thousand troops to capture the three cities of Gaoxian, Houcheng and Wangping within five days!"
Qin Dan immediately went out to guard the army and saluted: "Promise!" Then he went out of the camp and took two thousand soldiers and horses to the three cities north of Xiangping.
Quan Cong paused for a moment and then said: "Captain Du also led two thousand troops to the southeast to capture the Khan, Xi'an Ping, Wu Ci! The road is longer, and the deadline is eight days."
Du De stepped out and clasped his fists and said: "The last general will obey the order of the Grand Sima!"
The military order had been given, and even if Quan Congdang was about to get up and go out of the tent, Quan Xu couldn't help but said: "Da Sima, why haven't you given the military order to me yet? I must continue to make contributions to Jiangdong!"