棉被是我们日常最常用的御寒寝具。人们用棉布做成被罩然后填充棉花,能起到很好的保温效果。即使是最新的鸭绒被、鹅绒被、蚕丝被,它们里面的填充物虽然不同,但保温原理与棉被没什么两样。我们如果穿越回秦汉、隋唐,就会发现温暖的棉被并不存在,我们只能在瑟瑟寒风中寻找其他的保暖寝具,因为棉花在中国普及要迟至宋末元初。那么中国古人此前盖什么样的被子御寒呢?首先,我们要理解在古人眼中什么是“被子”。从先秦到北宋以前,中国人理解的“被子”就是可以披在身上 Cotton quilts are our most common winter bedding. People use cotton cloth cover and then fill cotton, can play a very good insulation effect. Even the latest eiderdown, velvet quilt, silk was, although the filler inside them are different, but the principle of insulation and quilts are no different. If we cross back to the Qin and Han dynasties, the Sui and Tang dynasties, we will find a warm quilt does not exist, we can only find other warm bedding in the blustery, because cotton in China as late as the end of the Song Dynasty. So what kind of quilt was covered by the ancient Chinese people before it was cold? First of all, we have to understand what is “quilt” in the eyes of the ancients. Before the Qin Dynasty and the Northern Song Dynasty, the “quilt” understood by the Chinese people could be put on the body