In the West, the fireplace is also closely related to various festivals. On Halloween, the most important ritual is to light a fire. As many small stones as the surrounding people 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 children have to do is to run to the fireplace and look for the gifts Santa brought them. On Dorset ’s Friday, hanging a piece of toast in the fireplace is said to guarantee the abundance of grains in the coming year.
The fireplace is somewhat mysterious because it is connected to the chimney. The chimney is a passage connecting the external world and the internal world. When the stove door is closed in summer, people will also be curious to know what is hidden in the end, because the stove door is closed. Formed a very convenient storage cellar. When many children draw houses, we can be surprised to find that in these naive pictures, all houses are painted with chimneys, and the mysterious area below the chimney is the fireplace. It can be seen that in the subconscious minds of children, fire and fireplace are An intimate factor that is inborn.