There were no quilts before the Song Dynasty, so how did the ancients sleep in winter?

We all know that in ancient times, their conditions were completely inferior to today's. They did not have double-layer cold-resistant glass windows, no insulation on the walls, and no heating and air conditioning, so Their room was definitely colder than ours. The most unimaginable thing for us is that they don't have quilts. People are particularly afraid of the cold when sleeping. Without quilts, they will naturally come up with various ways to cope with the cold weather.

It was very cold in their house, so they would put burned charcoal in a basin and place it in the house. Because burning charcoal directly in the house will produce a lot of smoke, so the burned charcoal that is still warm is placed in the house to increase the temperature in the house. As for quilts, people with money and people without money will have different methods, and it is easier for rich people to deal with it. Although there were no quilts, there were still a lot of livestock at that time, and there were also a lot of various animals, so rich people would use duck down, wool, rabbit hair and other animal hairs to make quilts for warmth. Just like many of our current clothes, they are also made of the hair of this type of animal, and they are indeed very effective in keeping warm. So in other words, some of the clothes made of animal hair that we wear now are actually using the ideas and creativity of our ancestors.

We are just a kind of inheritance and upgrade of creativity, for many people You will feel that our ancestors are really very smart. Using animal hair is what the rich do, because this kind of animal was very expensive in ancient times, and the production method would be more complicated. It is unaffordable for the poor, but the poor cannot afford it because they don’t have it. Money can only carry the cold. There was no cotton or animal hair, but they were still very smart and thought of using catkins or reed catkins. When we see catkins in spring, we will feel that catkins and cotton are particularly similar.

And reed catkins are also relatively fluffy, so they are very useful in keeping warm. So they will stuff these things into the quilt, which can also play a role in keeping warm and full. They also put dry straw on the bed, because straw also has a certain effect of keeping warm, so even though they don't have cotton, they still have some ways to resist the cold. The wisdom of their ancestors is really impressive.