Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p The kang (Chinese: 炕; pinyin: kàng; Manchu: nahan) is a traditional long (2 metres or more) platform for general living, working, entertaining and sleeping, made of bricks or other forms of fired clay and more recently of concrete in some locations. Its interior cavity, leading to a flue, channels the exhaust from a wood or coal cooking fire, usually the fire would be fed from an adjacent room which serves as a kitchen, sometimes from a stove set below floor level. A separate stove may be used for controlling the amount of smoke circulating through the kang, maintaining comfort in warmer weather. Typically, a kang occupies one-third to one half the area the room, and is used for sleeping at night and for other activities during the day. A kang which covers the entire floor is called a dikang (literally "ground kang").Like the European ceramic stove, a massive block of masonry is used to retain heat. While it might take several hours of heating to reach the desired surface temperature, a properly designed bed raised to sufficient temperature should remain warm throughout the night without the need to maintain a fire.. }
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- Kang_bed-stove abstract "The kang (Chinese: 炕; pinyin: kàng; Manchu: nahan) is a traditional long (2 metres or more) platform for general living, working, entertaining and sleeping, made of bricks or other forms of fired clay and more recently of concrete in some locations. Its interior cavity, leading to a flue, channels the exhaust from a wood or coal cooking fire, usually the fire would be fed from an adjacent room which serves as a kitchen, sometimes from a stove set below floor level. A separate stove may be used for controlling the amount of smoke circulating through the kang, maintaining comfort in warmer weather. Typically, a kang occupies one-third to one half the area the room, and is used for sleeping at night and for other activities during the day. A kang which covers the entire floor is called a dikang (literally "ground kang").Like the European ceramic stove, a massive block of masonry is used to retain heat. While it might take several hours of heating to reach the desired surface temperature, a properly designed bed raised to sufficient temperature should remain warm throughout the night without the need to maintain a fire.".