Winter in the northeast

It's cold in the northeast, colder than the outside world thinks.This black land, roughly on the same latitude as Europe, is more than twenty degrees colder in January.

The northeast is not only cold, but also very cold.Winter in heilongjiang lasts more than 200 days. Even in shenyang, which is relatively warm, heating begins at the end of October and continues until the beginning of April.Northeast China is the only place in the world where it is so cold and so many people live.

Siberia, north of the amur, is too strong
So the history of northeast China is a history of fighting against the cold. If we don't deal with the cold well, people living in northeast China can do nothing.In fact, the explosive growth of population in northeast China in modern times began with the support of industry and the large-scale fight against the cold.

Guide to dressing for the cold
Before the advent of the industrial gods, the only means of heating people in the northeast were fire, drink, and wear more clothes.
It is needless to say that there are plenty of forest farms in the northeast, and you can find a leeward place to light a bonfire by chopping firewood at will.The warmth of the red and yellow flames can save lives and make people want to talk around the campfire.

A festive bonfire party
No matter how cold it is, I can't feel it
People in the northeast also like to drink as much as russians, just to cope with the cold and long winter.Winter in the northeast village around, it is not difficult to find drink too many people lying on the roadside.The blood rush brought by alcohol gives a warm illusion that one can lie by the roadside for ten hours without feeling cold, with only the frozen toes to remind the drinker that the true temperature in the northeast is minus 20 degrees.

Red mud stove can drink a glass of nothing
As for wearing more is exquisite.
We come to winter, whether to wear long Johns still have to struggle.But in the past in the northeast, do not know what long Johns, only fleece pants, wool pants, two cotton pants and large cotton pants.People who are afraid of the cold can wear according to their own needs, pants + two cotton pants, fleece pants + wool pants + large cotton pants, and so on.

The upper body is also so, shirt + sweater + cotton-padded jacket, shirt + sweater + vest + cotton-padded jacket and so on wear method, very troublesome, so to the northeast people in the past, wearing clothes is also a vigorous work.

No amount of clothes will prevent you from eating ice
Only have a kind of dress, can ignore these trifling collocation, go to the body casually a set, can obtain smile proud group male warmth, this is PI cao, generally speaking is mink.In the Internet age, mink became a joke to the people of northeast China, but in history, mink skin was a tribute along with gold and silver.

Why wear mink
Because it's warm.
Before the rise of modern farming, minks were caught in the wild.But the body of the ermine is soft and flexible, can climb trees can swim, not easy to catch, so the ermine is quite expensive, known as soft gold.

According to the records of the qing dynasty, the DPRK paid tribute to the qing dynasty once a year, including one hundred taels of gold, one thousand taels of platinum, two hundred pairs of buffalo horns and one hundred pieces of mink skin.In addition to north Korea, places like heilongjiang were also required to pay tribute to the imperial court.The mink skins were stored by the interior office of the qing court, or made into overcoats to wear, or given to nobles and ministers as rewards.In this way, the ermine is covered with a strong aristocratic color.

Rich men wear sable
In recent years, with the rise of expensive down jackets such as Canada geese, young people's tastes seem to have shifted, but the resistance to the cold has not.
Guidelines for indoor cold resistance
At minus 20 degrees, every everyday experience becomes different.Even if you sit in the northeast bus, train and even in the house, winter general will still give you some color to see see.

The northeast is divided into cold regions
The person exhales vapor, encounter the glass that is connected with outdoor with minus 20 degrees, freeze directly into ice to stay on the window and crevice.If left alone, the ice will grow thicker and thicker, requiring a knife to break it off.So anyone who has been on a train in winter in the northeast must have seen the scene: the train attendants would knock the ice off the door to prevent the door from freezing and not opening.
Please do not imitate...

So getting dressed is just the beginning of heating.And even if wear again expensive again good, always wear so many also afflictive, otherwise northeast people how always to hainan run, not just figure a need not wear cotton-padded trousers yao?If you're indoors in the northeast, you're going to need some more powerful ways to heat your home.

A kang this big, the whole is heating equipment.The fire kang of the bedroom is connected with the hearth of the kitchen, when cooking, heat the kang incidentally.Kang under the general will also open a hole or a few small, when not cooking, you can heat relay in these doors, keep the indoor warmth.

The hot kang has even affected the eating habits of the northeast.
The fire kang in the bedroom is connected to the hearth in the kitchen, burning wood for a long time to keep warm.If you can't use that much heat to heat your food, you might as well use it to heat your food.So the northeast housewife would throw the food into the pot and wait for it to simmer slowly.So visitors to the northeast to eat stew will think that the northeast cuisine is too messy, but what they want is a stew.