The fireplace, English name: fireplace, is open burning with the master heater, while the latter has a closed burning structure with the main purpose of heating. It is an indoor fire heating equipment built against the wall. Originally used in western countries, the fireplace has decorative function and considerable practical value, and is extremely popular in northern Europe. According to the culture of different countries, it can be divided into Finnish style, Russian style, American style fireplace, British style fireplace, French style fireplace, Spanish style, and so on. The basic structure of the fireplace being loaded includes: fireplace frame, fireplace core and flue. The mantelpiece plays a decorative role. The fireplace core plays a practical role, and the flue is used for exhaust. The fireplace rack is classified into marble fireplace rack, wooden fireplace rack, imitation marble fireplace rack (resin) and stacked fireplace rack according to different materials. According to different fuels, the fireplace core can be classified into: electric fireplace, real fireplace (carbon burning, wood burning), gas fireplace (natural gas). The real fireplace should have the support of architectural design, and needs chimneys and furnaces. The furnace can be made of cast iron wall core or refractory brick. If there is no chimney, it can also be replaced by cast iron pipes, whose diameter is not less than 12cm and inner diameter is not less than 11cm. In western countries, there are generally flue designs. So western countries also generally use real fireplaces. The electric fireplace is simple to install, and the matching fireplace frame is adopted by the house type without flue design in China. After all, the domestic ordinary urban residential buildings are limited to the housing structure, and the heating mode is centralized heating. The fireplace has many decorative elements, so it has little practical value. The real fire fireplace is mainly used in villas in China, but there are few examples of excellent design and construction, which limits the heating value of the fireplace. Some fireplaces have integrated ovens, which are used for baking bread, pizza or barbecue. In recent years, many domestic decorations have installed fireplaces, but it is rare to give full play to the efficient heating function of European fireplaces.
In the West, fireplaces are also closely related to various festivals. On Halloween, the most important ceremony is to light the fire. Small stones as many as the surrounding people are placed in the fireplace. It is said that if one stone is moved the next morning, the owner will die in that year. In the morning of Christmas, the first thing the children should do is to run to the fireplace to look for the gifts that Santa Claus brought them. On Friday in Dorset, hanging a piece of toast in the fireplace is said to ensure a bumper harvest of grain in the coming year. The fireplace is mysterious because it is connected with the chimney. The chimney is a channel connecting the external world and the internal world. When the furnace door is closed in summer, people will also wonder what is hidden inside, because a very convenient storage cellar is formed after the furnace door is closed. When many children draw houses, we can be surprised to find that in these innocent pictures, all houses are painted with chimneys, and the mysterious area below the chimneys is the fireplace. It can be seen that in the subconscious of children, fire and fireplace are a kind of innate closeness factors.