The origin and development of fireplace culture

The first prototype of the fireplace appeared in ancient Greece. In the 11th century AD, in Germania, Northern Europe, more primitive Indoor Fireplaces made of brick or stone with holes in the building walls appeared.

Most scholars believe that the real suspended fireplace appeared in the middle of the Tudor Dynasty in England. At that time, people invented the familiar wall-mounted, smoke-free fireplace. The warmth and comfort brought by this kind of fireplace is incomparable to the early prototype of the fireplace, and thus led to the fireplace culture that has been popular in Europe for hundreds of years.

In 17th-century England, it became fashionable to sit by the Wood Burning Fireplaces reading novels and reciting lines from plays. In Emily Bronte's novel Wuthering Heights, the word "fireplace" appears 36 times, such as: "Linton sat in the armchair, and we sat in the rocking chairs in front of the fire, talking and laughing happily, and found that we had a lot to say." Some people say that it is the fireplace culture that produced Shakespeare, Dickens, Thackeray, Trollope, Eliot, Jane. These great writers, Austen, have created the rational and delicate tradition of English novels.

Just as most long-established cultures were born in pleasure or comfortable leisure, the fireplace culture, which represents the most important family spirit culture in the West, has gradually formed. Therefore, Britain is known as the "birthplace of fireplace culture" and "the hometown of fireplace".

In the Georgian period of England (1714-1811), Palladian architecture, a symbol of the ideal and perfect life of ancient Greece, flourished in England, which advocated nature, rationality and elegance. Together with the English neoclassical style, which appeared later, it won the victory in English cities and villages. It has become "the most beautiful and home-friendly architectural style in the history of human architecture".

In the middle and late Georgian period, the masters of British neoclassical architecture came forth in large numbers, Adam brothers and John. Sir Thorne is in the entire field of Western neoclassical design of the most prominent figures, they are extremely attached to the design of the fireplace, designed a lot of exquisite, is considered to be very perfect fireplace.

In the 18th and 19th centuries, under the influence of the British, the aristocrats in France and the United States had a fireplace in almost every room. At that time, people judged the owner's taste and strength through the beauty of the mantel, and evaluated the quality of the building from the number and size of the outdoor chimney.

Nowadays, with the development of modern technology, all kinds of heating facilities emerge one after another, but who can refuse the kind of indescribable wonderful feeling that the fireplace brings to people? The charm of the fireplace is not only to bring warmth, it has become a culture and lifestyle infiltrating the lives of people in various countries.

In front of the fireplace is said to be the place where "good things come naturally". We can often see that the heads of state and dignitaries of Western countries, including ordinary people, always choose to receive dignitaries and friends in front of the fireplaces in their offices and homes.

Christmas, the fireplace is an indispensable protagonist. The people who have the most imagination about fireplaces are children. The thing that children look forward to most at Christmas is that Santa Claus appears from the chimney of the fireplace and puts presents in the stocking, bringing them presents, good luck and joy.

The fireplace is now almost synonymous with the ideal home, the good life. The fireplace is the most full of life and ritual sense of the place. Then and there, the good times of gathering and solitude took place in front of the fireplace.