The heating stopped and I slept in bed at night. I woke up in the middle of the night and felt a chill running through my body. I turned over and shivered. I wanted to fall asleep again, but I couldn’t fall asleep. It was a quiet night and I thought of The warm hot kang in my hometown.

The Tukang in my hometown is a unique way of life for northerners. It has a simple structure, easy materials, and is economical and economical to use. It is as honest and simple as the cave dwellings on the loess. The Tukang in my hometown is a square inch of land. , not only warms the spring, summer, autumn and winter of the family, but more importantly, it is the place where babies are born and life inhabits; it is a place where simple nostalgia gathers; it is a place filled with infinite longing. The lives of generations of ancestors continued there and ended there, recording the lives of generations of hometown people and carrying the rich history of the rise and fall of hometown people.

When I was a child, I lived in an era when food was scarce and clothing was scarce. The hot kang at home became the best memory of my childhood. In my memory, under the dim oil lamp, my mother seemed to have endless sewing. Living, stitch by stitch, blends into my blood, and also stretches the shadow of time forever! Every time after school, I couldn't wait to throw off my shoes and get under the quilt, and put my little feet, which were red from the cold, into the hot quilt to warm myself. Not to mention how comfortable it was.

There is a popular saying in my hometown: "Thirty acres of land, one cow, wife and children, and a hot bed." This shows the importance of the warm hot bed in life. These simple and unpretentious words express the most sincere wishes of the northern rural men and are also the most basic pursuits in their lives. The wife is the composition of the family, the children are the prosperity of the people and the continuation of the bloodline, the cattle are the driving force for cultivating the land, and a warm earthen bed is their warm harbor. For a farmer who faces the loess with his back to the sky and works hard to survive, with these things, his life will be as warm as the warm kang head, and his life will be prosperous.

It takes about half a month to build a kang at first. First, use adobe to build a wall around it, about 70 or 80 centimeters high. Then build a pillar inside to support the kang surface, and then go in Fill in the soil until the soil is as high as the pillar, then spread the soil out and tamp it firmly; then pour the mixed mud on top and smooth it out, making it about ten centimeters thick. Wait a day or two and then hit it hard with a flat hammer, again and again. Beat it over and over again. When the kang noodles are beaten flat and firm, then wait for the kang noodles to dry. After drying, take out the filling soil inside; finally, put some firewood into them and burn them. This process is called the kang noodles to release water until they are burned. The kang is completely free of moisture, and a kang is considered complete.

With the development of the times, the kang technology has also kept pace with the times. Nowadays, the kang surface is prefabricated in concrete. The kang wall is decorated with ceramic tiles and the cement kang surface is directly laid. Today's cement kang still does not have as constant a temperature as an earthen kang, and it heats up and cools down quickly. It is just that it is much cleaner and more beautiful than an earthen kang, but it lacks the smell of earth.

Entering winter, there is no more farm work in the fields. This is the season when farmers are recuperating and recuperating, and the advantages of Kang are fully displayed. Rural people like to visit each other. The women pick up insoles or other small handicrafts and find a neighbor who has a hot kang to get together with a few people. The men also filled their cigarette pouches with cigarettes and visited the house to relax. When arriving at any house, the host family will warmly greet the visitors, "Take off your shoes quickly and get on the Kang." The women are chatting and doing needlework, talking and laughing, and working on their hands. The men are all over the place. We were so uncomfortable in the sea, we waited until nightfall before we dispersed.

As the environment changes, the earthen kang in my hometown gradually becomes distant and is slowly replaced by electric mattresses and water-heated kangs. I have always liked to sleep on this traditional Tukang. It is flat, strong and grounded. I have a continual relationship with the Tukang in my hometown. It is the rock of my life. Lying on my Tukang, I feel relaxed and relaxed. Relax, the Tukang at home has a solid and warm feeling, and my attachment to the Tukang in my hometown has become a deep nostalgia.