Do You Know The Origin Of Fireplaces?

The prototype of the fireplace appeared in ancient Greece. In the 11th century AD, the Germans in Northern Europe made holes in the walls and used primitive fireplaces built with bricks.

Many scholars believe that the real fireplace was created in the middle of the Tudor Dynasty in England. People created chimney fireplaces, which gave rise to the fireplace culture that has been popular in Europe for hundreds of years and continues to this day.

In 17th-century England, sitting by the fireplace and reading novels became a custom. In Emily Bronte's novel "Wuthering Heights", the word "fireplace" appears in a total of 36 places. Some people say that it is because of the fireplace culture that Shakespeare, Dickens, Thackeray, Trollope and Eliot were created. , Jane Austen, a great litterateur, created the rational and meticulous tradition of British novels.

The long-standing culture was born in pleasure and leisure, which represents the important family spiritual culture in the West. The fireplace culture gradually formed. The UK has since been known as the "birthplace of fireplace culture" and the "homeland of fireplaces".

In the British Georgian era, symbolizing the ideal and perfect life of ancient Greece, Palladianism architectural style showed its light in the United Kingdom, which advocated nature, rationality and elegance, and was consistent with the British neoclassical style, which won a full victory in the British city and country, and became "the elegant architectural style in the history of human architecture".

In the middle and late Georgian period, there were many masters of neoclassical architectural style in England. Brothers Adam and Sir John Soane both attached great importance to the design of fireplaces and created many exquisite fireplaces that were called perfect.

From the 18th to the 19th century, under the influence of the British, the nobles of France and the United States had fireplaces in their rooms. At the same time, the fireplace can reflect the owner's extraordinary taste.

Now, with the advancement of modern technology, there are all kinds of heating equipment, no one can resist the kind of inexpressible wonderful feeling brought by the fireplace, the fireplace can not only bring warmth, it has become a culture and way of life in everyone's world.

The place in front of the fireplace is known as the place where "good things come naturally." It is often seen that Western families receive friends in front of the fireplace.

In the West, fireplaces are also closely related to various festivals. On Halloween, the most important ritual is lighting the fire. On Christmas morning, the first thing children do is rush to the fireplace to find the gifts Santa Claus has brought them. On Friday in Dorset, hanging a piece of toast in the fireplace is said to ensure a good harvest in the coming year.