Since ancient times, the methods of burning bricks have been similar. They are all made of loess with water and mud, made into bricks with molds, dried and kiln-loaded, and fired at high temperature.
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Brick kilns consist of several brick-burning caves and a huge chimney. Brick kiln is a cubic structure, with bricks piled inside and holes the size of a bowl on it, into which fine coal is poured. A brick factory covers a large area. Apart from the cave for burning bricks, there are also workshops for producing blue bricks and threshing floors for drying mud bricks.
Clay brick and red brick are a kind of wall building materials. In production and use, there are some shortcomings, such as serious damage to cultivated land, environmental pollution, energy consumption and poor thermal insulation performance. The state pays more and more attention to environmental protection. Since the early 1980s, the country began to implement the innovation of wall materials, and adobe kilns were closed one after another.
It is not allowed to burn clay bricks and red bricks, just like prefabricated boards used in Gai Lou in the past. Now, environmental protection cement bricks are poured on the spot in rural houses. With the disappearance of clay bricks, brick-burning workers will become history and remain in people's memory.
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