The live broadcast life of Lao Linzi in Northeast China

Chapter 545
"You don't understand, the kang is not just a kind of nostalgia for us, it's because sleeping on the kang...it's really cool!"

"But this heated kang is built with bricks. Is it really strong? Will it not collapse? Wouldn't it be hot when the fire is on? And won't this kind of heated kang collapse when you sleep?"

"The question upstairs is what I want to ask..."

"It seems... everyone is really curious about our kang culture in Northeast China!"

"Haha, no, there are a lot of questions."

Li Yuan also said with a smile: "Everyone, don't worry, I can answer your questions one by one while cooking now."

"Just now I told everyone that the main function of the kangs in the Northeast is actually to provide heat for the house."

"Because the winter in the Northeast is relatively cold, and the electricity consumption was not so developed in the earliest days, and not every household can afford electric heating."

"So, the kang has become the only source of heating for us in the Northeast."

"And because the kang needs to pass under the cooking stove, it can be said that whether it is eating or boiling water, as long as there is a fire, the kang will be hot."

"In order to keep out the cold in winter, some people build a flue under the indoor floor. In this way, as long as the fire is lit in the stove, no matter how cold the weather outside the northeast is, our house in the northeast will be full of heat. warm."

"The reason for this is that in the houses in the northeast, there are kang surfaces, the ground, and the firewood that emit heat together, so it can ensure that the house is always warm as spring."

Studio.

"Warm like spring? Isn't that a little exaggerated?"

"Really... is it that warm?"

"Is it really that warm indoors in Northeast China?"

"It must be warm! Just think about what the anchor wore indoors last winter and you will know."

"Last winter? I remember that the anchor wore... half sleeves?"

"It's half sleeves!"

"Yes, I remembered, the anchor basically had to sit on the kang and eat ice cream every day last winter!"

"You have reminded me so much. Last year, the anchor either ate frozen autumn pears or popsicles in the room, and shouted hot!"

Li Yuan couldn't help laughing and said: "Haha, this is really not because I am angry with you, but because it is really warm!"

"Let's put it this way, the lowest temperature outside our northeast in winter can reach more than 30 degrees, but no matter how cold it is outside, as long as you burn a kang and don't need too much firewood, the indoor temperature can easily reach 18 degrees above zero. above."

Studio.

"Eighteen degrees? Just wear a T-shirt, you don't even need to wear a coat!"

"No, at this temperature, I'm afraid you can't even wear a sweater?"

"A difference of fifty degrees?! Isn't this too scary?"

"Is it that warm?"

"Then... how much did you burn?"

Li Yuandao: "Much less, the temperature in the room will naturally be higher."

"It's just... what I just told you is the indoor air temperature. If the indoor temperature can reach 18 degrees, then basically the temperature above the kang can reach 22 or 23 degrees."

"If more firewood is burned, the kang won't be able to sit on people. It's that...the so-called state where the buttocks can burn and bloom."

Studio.

"As for?"

"I rely on... so scary?"

"Haha, what the anchor said is too vivid!"

"This is not an exaggeration. The northeast kang really can't be burned too much, or I won't be able to sleep for a while!"

"Haha, no, I experienced it once. There was too much fire, and as a result, the whole family stared at each other until the kang was aired until more than one o'clock in the middle of the night. Sleep."

"After being told so by the upstairs, I suddenly remembered the time when there was a kang cave!"

"Haha, no, every time a visitor from Northeast's family cooks a few more dishes, the kang can't sit on people at all!"

"What is kangdong oil?"

"Why can't people sit? Isn't it enough to lay out a mattress or a cushion?"

Li Yuan shook his head and explained with a smile: "This really doesn't work."

"Although laying things on the kang can temporarily solve the problem of the kang being too hot, if the heat cannot dissipate, it is very likely that the cushion will be burned due to the high temperature."

Studio.

"Can it burn out?"

"Isn't there a layer of bricks in the middle? How could it burn out?"

"Yeah? I wonder too."

"Burn out? Didn't it burn directly?"

"I'm also a little confused..."

Li Yuan: "The so-called burnout is not the kind of burning a hole with fire, but the cause of high temperature burning. This is the same as a forest with dry weather. If there is a spark, it will ignite."

"The so-called kangdong oil by fans before is actually wood tar produced by straw and firewood."

"Because these tars are burned year after year, they will hang in the kang hole and form a thick layer of grease. Although the grease does not hinder anything when it is usually burned, if the temperature in the stove pit is too high, it is easy to burn. Set this tar on fire."

"The burning of this tar will release a poisonous gas. Although it is not that powerful, the tar must be extinguished in time."

Studio.

"There's even kangdong oil? You've learned a lot!"

"I'll go, this is the first time I've heard that there is oil in the kang cave!"

"Is there really oil? Will it appear after a long time of burning?"

"It's true! After a long time of burning the kang cave, this thing will naturally come out. Sometimes it takes a long time, and you get it twice a year!"

"That's right, every time my mother asked me to sprinkle some salt in it, it would go off by itself in about ten minutes."

"That's amazing, isn't it?"

Li Yuan smiled and said: "Well, when the oil in the kang cave is burning, you can directly block the position of the air inlet with bricks, so that there is no air in it, and the oil in the kang cave will go out automatically."

"In the north, especially in Jiaodong, Shandong, because of the long winter and the cold climate, farmers like to use kangs to keep warm in winter."

"Like in the Jiaodong area, the main house of a rural house is usually three or four rooms in a row facing north and south, and two of them have heated kang rooms."

"There is a stove about three or four feet square in the east and west behind the outer door next to the two doors that enter the door. The place between the stove and the south wall behind the door is usually the place where the bellows are placed."

"And on the stove, there will always be a big iron pot like the one in front of me, usually with six to eight seals."

"The flue connected to the stove under the iron pot goes through the wall from the kang in the two rooms to the chimney on the outer wall. If the family is a little richer, there will be a miscellaneous room on the east side of the east room or on the west side of the west room. room."

"The heated kang is built in the south of the room, and it will occupy nearly half the area of ​​the room. Three sides are against the wall, and the south side is a large glass window. The bottom of the kang edge, that is, the north side is a two to three foot high kang wall. .”

(End of this chapter)