Art

In the West, the fireplace and various festivals also have a close relationship. On Halloween, the most important ritual is to light a fire. Small Stones, as many as the people around them, 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 for the children to do is to run to the fireplace to look for the presents Santa brought them. On Dorset's Friday, hanging a loaf of toast in the fireplace is said to guarantee a bumper crop the following year. The fireplace is mystified by its connection to the chimney, a passageway between the outside world and the inside, and when the door is closed in the summer, one wonders what's inside, the door of the stove closed to form a convenient storage cellar. 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 chimneys is the fireplace, thus, in the children's subconscious, the fire and the fireplace were inborn factors of intimacy.