In the West, fireplaces are also closely related to various festivals. On Halloween, the most important ritual is to ignite the fire, and as many small stones as there are placed in the fireplace. It is said that if a stone is moved the next morning, the owner will die this year. On Christmas morning, the first thing the kids have to do is fly to the fireplace to find the gift Santa has brought to them. In Dorset’s Friday, hanging a piece of toast in the fireplace is said to guarantee a bumpy harvest in the coming year.
The fireplace is somewhat mysterious because it is connected to the chimney. The chimney is a passage connecting the outside world and the inner world. When the stove door is closed in the summer, people will be curious to know what is hidden inside, because the stove door is closed. Formed a very convenient storage raft. When many children draw houses, we can be surprised to find that in these naive pictures, all the houses are painted with chimneys, and the mysterious area under the chimney is the fireplace. It can be seen that in the children’s subconscious, the fire and the fireplace are A kind of close factor that is born.
