In that case, what did the ancients make to keep warm when they slept at night? What is the quilt made of? I remember seeing an experiment about various quilts before, and I got the lightest and warmest quilt. There are silk quilts, duck down quilts, ten-hole quilts, quilts and space quilts in the competition. Finally, experiments prove that silk quilts and quilts rank first.
In other words, although there were no quilts in ancient times, silk quilt was indeed one of the quilts used by the ancients to keep warm, and only dignitaries could use it. Ordinary people have never even heard of silk quilts. Silk? The word may turn around and leave because it simply can't afford it. We modern people always marvel at the wisdom of the ancients. When people live, they will naturally make quilts that many people can afford.
Animal skins and animal hair In the days when the sky was a quilt and the ground was a bed, ancient people used leaves to cover their bodies, but in winter, in order to keep out the cold, they chose to use animal skins to make quilts or clothes. Later, when people had cloth, they began to think of filling it with other warm things, which solved the problem that many people were cold in winter.
So what will they use as filler? After all, there is no cotton reed flower. As the name implies, the flower of the plant reed is characterized by white fur, which is the reed flower that many people have seen, and usually blooms in summer and autumn. Now many folk artists still use reed poles as brooms, so Yu Pingjun guessed that the ancients thought reed flowers had a warm function.
Reed flower has great advantages as a filler, because it does not need processing, and can be directly used as a filler to make a quilt, which is light and warm. If you want to be comfortable, you must use a good cloth to prevent the reed flowers from leaking out, so that you will not feel uncomfortable because of your skin. I saw someone say catkin was used. In fact, catkins were rarely made into quilts in ancient times, only a few. The production process is more complicated than that of reed flowers, and the most important thing is that catkins are more likely to cause skin discomfort.
Straw straw as filler should still have a long experience. After all, many people can't even afford a quilt made of reed flowers. They can only use straw+cloth and then spread straw on the bed board, so they can barely make ends meet. Some people say that straw has a hard part, while the ancients used fine straw, which was punched out and finally added.
In fact, until the seventies and eighties, although many old people didn't use this kind of quilt, the bed board was still covered with straw, which was extremely warm.
Duck down Since the duck down quilt was mentioned above, in fact, in ancient times, people realized that duck down is warm. They naturally came up with this idea when they saw ducks playing in the water in the cold winter. In addition, many people can afford to raise poultry, so there are many quilts made of duck down on the market, which gradually replaced the Lu Hua quilt in the later stage, because the duck down is also very light, which is no less comfortable and warm than Lu Hua.
Are there silk and linen products in the south? Ge? There are ramie and hemp in the north, which can be used as fiber. As early as the Qin and Han dynasties, people used silk and linen products as fillers to keep out the cold.
Brocade quilt is a very high-grade quilt. It is said that an exquisite quilt presented by Dagu State in Tang Dynasty was made of ice silk. First, the silk is messed up, and then it is filled into high-grade cloth embroidered with dragon and phoenix patterns. The ancients called it? Silk? I'm afraid this kind of quilt can only be enjoyed by royalty.