Before the Song Dynasty, when there were no quilts, how did the ancients keep out the cold in winter?

For modern people, it is obviously a very happy thing to go home every day, if the weather is cold, you can directly turn on the heating, cover the comfortable quilt, and then lie in bed and play with your mobile phone. But what many people may not know is how bad the ancients were. Not every dynasty can use quilts. Long before the Song Dynasty, there were no quilts in China. Then some people may ask, how did the ancients spend the cold winter? This involves the poor and the rich, and their methods of keeping warm are admirable. With stoves, braziers and other heating tools, rich people will spend a lot of money on animal fur to make clothes to keep out the cold.

The gap between the rich and the poor in ancient society was very large, and the ways of the rich and the common people to keep out the cold were also very different, but one thing was the same. No matter the poor or the rich, they needed to sleep with quilts in winter. The difference lies in the material used to make the quilt. The rich hunt for hides to keep warm, while the poor use catkins, reed flowers, straw and other things that can be seen everywhere.

The rich in ancient times also put a brazier at home, which, like air conditioning, can raise the indoor temperature. So ancient people could burn a brazier to keep warm even if they didn't have a quilt. There are also small things like hand stoves and foot stoves, just like our hand warmers now. Of course, these things can only be seen in rich families. Besides foreign things, the rich can keep warm by drinking hot wine and eating warm food.

It is worth mentioning that there is also a method of "relying on people to keep warm". To put it bluntly, it is to hire a few people to help warm the bed. We know it's cold when we first go to bed, but if someone warms the bed in advance, they won't feel cold when they go to bed after the bed is warm. This method is arguably the funniest.

The poor also have their own exclusive props-paper clothes, so making clothes with waste paper and hemp paper also has a great cold protection effect. When the weather is really cold, they will pick up some branches on the mountain and light a fire. Everyone will gather together and rub hands with each other.