Kang

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The kang (Chinese: 炕; pinyin: kàng; Manchu: ᠨᠠᡥᠠᠨ nahan, Kazakh: кән) 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.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Kang (heated platform)”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

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