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<p>[QUOTE="Shangas, post: 144868, member: 360"]A "Kang" is a type of bed made of bricks. There's a cavity underneath for fire which warms the bricks, and then you sleep on top with a mattress and pillows and all the rest of it. They're usually backed onto a wall and there'd be a stove on the other side. The basic idea was that after finishing dinner, you shoved the burning wood or coal or whatever, out the back of the stove and into the underside of the Kang. Then by the time you went to bed, the dying flames would've warmed up the bed for you. </p><p><br /></p><p>People tend to forget that for a period in Chinese history, a lot of people ate either sitting or kneeling on the floor, as a result, tables and trays were much lower to the ground than modern tables. That's what this type of table is trying to imitate. </p><p><br /></p><p>Is it for opium? Possibly, but I doubt it. </p><p><br /></p><p>Is it very old? Probably, but not especially so. </p><p><br /></p><p>I'd say that this is probably a reproduction of the kind of table which was used in ancient China for serving/eating your meals on. Basically similar to this: </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://cache4.asset-cache.net/gc/rbtl_35-lifestyle-portrait-of-two-teenage-females-as-gettyimages.jpg?v=1&c=IWSAsset&k=2&d=c8oLj9CP5I%2BPAYNfvCdd8PPWEPPdHmIYbDuc%2FgoD6yumIH7nTuWIoge8VXMeZ%2F%2BY" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>I suspect that doing this had less to do with customs and tradition, and more to do with thrift. A smaller table is cheaper and faster to make, and most people probably didn't have enough money for chairs, anyway.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Shangas, post: 144868, member: 360"]A "Kang" is a type of bed made of bricks. There's a cavity underneath for fire which warms the bricks, and then you sleep on top with a mattress and pillows and all the rest of it. They're usually backed onto a wall and there'd be a stove on the other side. The basic idea was that after finishing dinner, you shoved the burning wood or coal or whatever, out the back of the stove and into the underside of the Kang. Then by the time you went to bed, the dying flames would've warmed up the bed for you. People tend to forget that for a period in Chinese history, a lot of people ate either sitting or kneeling on the floor, as a result, tables and trays were much lower to the ground than modern tables. That's what this type of table is trying to imitate. Is it for opium? Possibly, but I doubt it. Is it very old? Probably, but not especially so. I'd say that this is probably a reproduction of the kind of table which was used in ancient China for serving/eating your meals on. Basically similar to this: [IMG]http://cache4.asset-cache.net/gc/rbtl_35-lifestyle-portrait-of-two-teenage-females-as-gettyimages.jpg?v=1&c=IWSAsset&k=2&d=c8oLj9CP5I%2BPAYNfvCdd8PPWEPPdHmIYbDuc%2FgoD6yumIH7nTuWIoge8VXMeZ%2F%2BY[/IMG] I suspect that doing this had less to do with customs and tradition, and more to do with thrift. A smaller table is cheaper and faster to make, and most people probably didn't have enough money for chairs, anyway.[/QUOTE]
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