This is a wood-fired stove that is rarely used by today's society. Not only urban communities but also rural communities this stove is starting to be abandoned. However, when I visited a friend's house in the village, it turned out that my friend's house was still using a wood-fired stove. It's not that they don't have gas stoves, but they think that wood-fired stoves make life more economical because it's still easy to get firewood in the countryside. In fact, according to them, food cooked using a wood-fired stove has a better taste.
In my area, wood-fired stoves have been abandoned by some families since 25 years ago. Since then they have switched to kerosene-fueled stoves on the grounds that kerosene-fueled stoves are more practical. Only a few of them still use wood-fired stoves. But over time the kerosene stove began to be abandoned. At that time they left the kerosene stove because it was difficult to get kerosene. The difficulty of kerosene is the main factor for people to leave kerosene stoves.
In the 2000s, the government gave free gas cylinders to every family. 3 kilogram gas cylinders are provided free of charge. And since then, people in rural areas have started using gas stoves.