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Why do Chinese love to dry quilts, but Europeans and Americans don't? Even if they are found to be sunburned, they will be fined!
Drying quilts can be said to be an obsession of Chinese, every sunny day, on the balcony, The yard is hung with thick quilts, even if the conditions are limited, it can't stop the determination of Chinese people to dry quilts, especially college students, witty, directly open the umbrella and put the quilt on it, the primitive one, directly cover the school green belt and playground with quilts, funny, directly let the statues in the school help dry the quilt, as a result, capture the double statue of the bad guy, cover the quilt after making people think about it, the statue sitting together, after being covered by the quilt of the college student, looks like a cave candle, and some people directly tie the cup to the bridge, I don't know that someone wants to jump into the river。
And the habit of drying quilts by Chinese has to be traced back to the late Qing and Republic of China periods, due to the weakening of the mainland's national strength at that time, the mentality of the original Celestial Empire collapsed all of a sudden, and began to learn from the West after the Industrial Revolution, including the hygiene habits of drying quilts, it was originally difficult to change people's habits, but the emergence of the plague completely changed the situation, in 1912, the plague broke out in the northeast, and in just 6 months, it swept through most of China, resulting in more than 60,000 deaths, in order to prevent the plague, Ta Kung Pao Advocate people wash their hands frequently, clean their rooms frequently, boil raw water and then drink, wash and dry bedding frequently, plus there were several plagues and cholera in the follow-up, in order to save their lives, people naturally began to dry quilts, in 1934, the new life movement launched by the government of the Republic of China further consolidated the habit of people often washing and drying quilts.
Why is it almost impossible to see quilts in Europe and the United States, like China?
Drying quilts has many benefits, can prevent the quilt from smelling, damp, but also sterilization and disinfection, improve our sleep quality, so Chinese are obsessed with drying quilts, but if you travel to Europe and the United States, but rarely see someone drying quilts, even if you see someone drying is likely to be compatriots, and in some parts of the United States, it is even forbidden to dry clothes and quilts outside, once found, you will be fined, on the grounds that the house is full of sheets, quilt covers, and bras, Underwear and the like are too messy, pull down the grade of the community, and even affect the housing prices of the community, neighbors will report each other when they see it, just imagine, if a villa area, the outside is full of sheets, quilt covers, is it not so high-end atmosphere in an instant.
In fact, before the invention in 1938, the Americans also honestly pulled the rope to dry the quilt, but this year they invented the dryer, and put the clothes into the dryer after washing, and you can wear them directly after a period of time. This is because the quilts covered by Europeans and Americans are not like us that are made of cotton, and the quilts they can buy on the market can be thrown into the washing machine and then dried in a dryer.
Do you know what the smell of the sun-dried quilt is? Is it really the smell of mite corpses? After reading it, I was finally relieved.
I believe that many friends in the 80s and 90s, when they were young, their favorite thing was to shuttle under the quilt that was dried, and the quilt after drying was covered on the body, fluffy and dry and warm, there was a "smell of the sun", which made people smell very reassuring and felt extraordinarily fragrant when sleeping, but the outside world spread that this "sun smell" is the taste left after the mites are burned, in fact, this statement is untenable, because the body of mites in addition to water, there are proteins, Organic matter such as fat, after drying, should taste like roasted meat, or burnt hair, and this taste has nothing to do with the sun's flavor.
In order to verify where the smell of the sun comes from, in 2020, Danish scientists also conducted an experiment, they compared the gas composition of the outdoor sun-dried cotton towel and the indoor shade-dried cotton towel, and found that the outdoor sun-dried towel emitted a large amount of C5-C9 carbon oxide compounds, including aldehydes, ketones, Carboxylic acids and so on, one of which is called 2-methylpropionic acid, the smell of 2-propional acid is very good, 2-propionaldehyde is often put into perfume, the taste of these compounds is very close to the smell of the sun, and the indoor dry towel does not emit this smell, this is because the ultraviolet rays in the sunlight can break the oxygen chemical bonds in the quilt, generating these unique smells, volatile organic compounds, now you can finally rest assured to dry the quilt, hurry @ your best friend to see.