Today, the editor of the History Encyclopedia brings you the story of ancient people getting dark. Interested readers can follow the editor of the History Encyclopedia to take a look together. In ancient times, candles were luxury items. What would women do after dark that day?
I remember when I was a child, the quality of the wires was not very good, so it was easy to experience power outages. If there was a power outage at home, I would invite a few close friends to play outside. Nowadays, electricity is even more important. Everyone has electronic devices such as mobile phones and computers. Without electricity, life would be difficult to endure. But how did people get here when there was no electricity in ancient times? What do they do at night?
Electric lights are a product of modern civilization. In ancient times, candles were a luxury item that only the wealthy and powerful could afford. Poor people could only use the cheapest vegetable oil lamps for lighting. And their lighting is usually for reading, ancient people loved reading.
In addition, ancient people were also very romantic, occasionally having leisure time and chatting with friends over drinks. You can find fun anytime and anywhere as long as you have alcohol. Some even recite poetry to each other to pass the time and spend a pleasant night.
That’s the point. In ancient times, women had a much lower status than men, and there were also fewer women who studied. As mentioned earlier, women generally did not have the power to engage in activities such as drinking and poetry. So what will these women do?
Generally speaking, ordinary women usually weave gauze under candlelight, while women with children take care of them at home and do household chores when their children fall asleep. Speaking of women from wealthy families, they would gather at night to play cards. Card games originated in the Tang Dynasty, so wealthy women in ancient times could also use cards to pass the difficult nights.
For modern people, ‘long and endless night’ may just be a sentimental sentiment, but for ancient people, if they don’t sleep, it’s really a long and endless night.
