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[How Did the Ancients Spend the Winter?]
Great Qin Plane.
Winter had already arrived. Thick snow blanketed Xianyang City, and only a few peddlers called out their wares on the streets.
A few people had frozen to death by the roadside!
A beggar by the road had purplish lips from the cold, huddled in a corner clutching a broken bowl.
He trembled as he said:
"Winter... how do we get through it? The rich have it easy, but for people like us who farm, if there's no food in the winter and it's freezing, we can only freeze to death!"
[Do you think that for the poor in ancient times, surviving the winter simply meant putting on a few more layers of clothes and lighting a brazier to be safe?
In true history, winter was nothing less than a season of death for the poor!
If you weren't careful, a minor cold could take a person's life.
As soon as winter arrived, every household in the villages hung white mourning cloths.
During the late Qing period, a single county could have hundreds or thousands of people freeze to death after a heavy snow!
Even during the flourishing Tang Dynasty, Du Fu wrote in his poems: "Behind the vermilion gates of the rich, wine and meat go to waste, while out on the roads lie the bones of those who froze to death."
In ancient times, firewood was considered a valuable family asset!
People could pick it up off the streets and sell it in exchange for rice.
Mountains, rivers, and forests all had owners, and you coul…
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