Kang (heated platform)
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The kang is a traditional heated platform, 2 metres or more long, used for general living, working, entertaining and sleeping in the northern part of China, where the winter climate is cold. It is mad
The blessing of the good and the joyfulness. The lady of the house is accompanied by a maid. The children are playing around the mother on the kang. The artist Gao Yinzhang lived 1835–1906.
Author Harry A. Franck, sitting on the kang in his room in a Chinese inn
Russian stove
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The Russian stove is a type of masonry stove that first appeared in the 15th century or earlier. These stoves combine the functions of a traditional stove, oven, and fireplace into a single unit, and
Kang (heated platform)
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Typical Russian stove in a peasant izba with tools visible to the right of the stove
Russian stove in an izba, photographed before 1917
Russian stove in Republic of Karelia, Russia
Handling a chugun with an ukhvat