The ancient Chinese were very particular about the naming of objects. For example, there was a strict distinction between cabinets and boxes. Our cabinets are usually rectangular, and the boxes have lids to fasten them. We often see many "cabinets" and "boxes" in life that cannot be mixed, but when it comes to "refrigerators" and "freezers" they are completely opposite.
We saw that the refrigerator is rectangular and opens horizontally, while the freezer opens up and down. Why did the ancients, who were so particular about it, get it wrong on this matter? In fact, this matter is also related to the invention of ancient Chinese. There were refrigerators in ancient my country, but at that time they did not call them refrigerators but called "ice mirrors" to store ice in winter. Use it in the summer. A refrigerator with two doors is not suitable to be made into a box
A refrigerator has at least two doors, a freezer compartment and a refrigerator compartment. A refrigerator with two doors is not suitable to be made into a box. It must be made into a box. Boxes can only increase the floor space. Small-capacity freezers only have one door for the freezer compartment, which is suitable for opening the door. This increases the internal volume and reduces production costs, so it is more suitable to be made into a box. Of course, there are also large-capacity freezers that look like cabinets. Westerners invented the refrigerator
The history of "Bingjian" is very long. "Bingjian" is said in "Zhou Li Tianguan Lingren": "Sacrifice and offering Bingjian" means that the Chinese had their own refrigerators thousands of years ago. , In addition, it is also recorded in "Wuyue Chunqiu": "Gou Jianzhi also traveled and rested, ate and slept in the ice kitchen." This also shows that the emperor also used "ice mirror" at that time. In addition to written records, the "Yitong Bingjian of Marquis Zeng" was also unearthed.
Westerners invented the refrigerator. When the refrigerator was introduced to our country, people at that time thought, "Isn't this our refrigerator?" So they named the cabinet-shaped refrigerator "refrigerator." The reason why the word "electricity" is included may be because there were not many things using electricity at that time. Later, box-shaped freezers were introduced to our country. But the name of the refrigerator has been taken away by the refrigerator. So I had to call it a "freezer". But because electricity was already very common at that time, I didn't call it an "electric freezer" but just a "freezer."