Northeast people sleep in the kang is how to do?

As a rural boy who grew up in the Northeast and has witnessed many times that his family has built a resistance and stripped the kang, this question must be answered a hair.

To make a kang is to make a kang from scratch. There are two types of kang-making: one is to completely plow the kang and start from scratch, and the other is to remove the mud from the surface of the kang, lift up the bricks (or blanks) on the surface of the kang, and then cover the bricks (or blanks) after pulling out the ash from the hole in the kang, and then smear the mud on them.

Whether you are building a kang or removing a kang, you need to burn the mud to dry it out after it has been plastered.

The picture below shows a toro billet, which used to be used to plate the kang in the countryside.

The picture below shows a kang made of adobe.

In the very, very early days, the kang in the countryside was an earthen bed, which was a passageway between the stove and the chimney, and on which people either slept or put cabinets.

The sleeping kang was a large kang, which was divided into four directions: the head of the kang, a little bit of the kang, the edge of the kang, and the bottom of the feet.

The kang where the cabinets are placed is wrist kang, which are coiled like human wrists around the walls and corners and are usually less than half a meter wide.

The inside of the kang is the kangdong, the place where smoke goes, like a hole in a hole, the ordinary kang usually has four or five holes, but the wrist kang usually has only one hole. When a fire is built on the stove to make a meal, firewood burns in the stove, smoke runs in the hole of the kang, and the smoke drifts from the chimney to the sky, and the kang gets gradually hotter; the head of the kang is closest to the stove, so it's the hottest, and the kang is slightly closest to the chimney, so it's the coolest.

If it is winter or spring or fall, northeastern people are worried that the kang is not hot enough, after making a fire to make a meal, they will insert the smoke board in time, the smoke board is the chimney's valve, after inserting it, a small amount of smoke in the hole in the kang won't be sent to the chimney to run out of the kang hole in the heat won't follow the smoke to run out, and won't be able to sneak out by themselves, because the valve's closed well.

If the day is particularly cold, people in Northeast China will also burn the kang, some people have a stove under the kang, called the "capsule stove", which is independent of the stove is a special fire hole, to add firewood to this hole without having to go through the kitchen stove; some people do not have this special stove, then directly on the stove, the stove will be used as a fire hole, and then the stove is used to add wood.

The "fire hole" is a special hole for burning fire independently of the stove, and you don't have to go through the kitchen stove to add firewood to this hole; some people don't have this special stove, so they burn it directly in the stove, and the cauldron on the stove is filled with water to prevent the pot from burning.

In the former rural areas of Northeast China, the kang may also be divided into the south kang and the north kang, that is to say, a house with two kangs, one in the south, one in the north, are used to live in the house, in addition, the wrist kang is not necessarily used to put all the cabinets, but also may live in the house. In the past, the rural population was large, and the kang could not be divided into upper and lower beds like beds, so it could only be divided into north and south.

The kang is not unique to the Northeast, it was a very common thing in rural areas of northern China. I remember the beginning of Chen Zhongshi's "White Deer Plain" depicts Jiaxuan having sex with a woman on a kang.

At the end of a hundred days, Jiaxuan after the medication patch, glowing, Hu lifted the heart of the taboo is also pulled off the belt, the two people as passionate as greedy as not feel satisfied and do not feel sleepy, until the two pages of the bed surface of the adobe collapsed , and the two people laugh and smile and move a ground nest.

What does it feel like to make love on the kang? I've never tried it before, but I forget which novel it was written in. It was written that the mistress of the house found that the kang was particularly hot on her wedding night, and that she wanted to go into her husband's arms, and that it felt especially good to do it on the burnt kang.

But I have tried to sleep on the burning kang, because I was born on the burning kang, and even when I was in high school and rented a room near the school, I rented a private room with a burning kang, and sleeping on the burning kang is indeed a relief, and it's much better than cold beds, and that kind of warmth can't be compared with electric mattresses.

Do you want to go to the countryside in the north of China and take a kang?