In the hot summer, what is the trick of ancient people in the summer?

This summer, high temperatures continue. People who want to hold the air conditioner for 24 hours a day will not let go. They are holding watermelons and beef lying at home for a day. However, there is no refrigerator or air conditioning in the era of the ancients. How can I have a hot summer?

Do you think the ancients could only be "quiet and natural" or relying on a fan to dispel summer?

In fact, the ancients used ice and recorded in the Western Zhou Dynasty. Incidential, responsible for picking ice, storing ice, and icing. The ice formed in the winter rivers in the cellar is used for use when the summer is hot.

The ancients were quite particular about preserving ice cubes. "Book of Songs. "Wind Feng July" wrote, "The two days of the day chiseling ice rushing, the three days of the three days of Lingyin." In December, the ice was chilled, and the ice was hidden into the ice cellar in the first month. Cover the straw on the ice cubes for insulation, and put some sawdust between the ice cubes to prevent the ice cubes from merging. A large amount of ice cubes will be placed in the ice cellar in advance, so that many ice cubes are available even in the summer. In the summer, ice cubes can be used to cool down, but also preserve fresh fruits, which are useful.

Although the summer is hot, it is not a way to stay in the room. Barries, fishing, and heights are common "posture". The great poet Li Bai has shared the happy "lazy white feather fan, naked in green forests in the mountains to avoid the heat of the heat. In ancient times, the southerners had the habit of "rewarding the lotus". "Old Wulin" contains "June 6th, Xianhuan should watch Cui Fujun's birthday, and the temple food is prosperous since the East capital. You. "Su Shi also had Yun Yun" Gupu's sidewalking water is vast, and the lotus flowers open the wind and show the fragrance. "On the west lake, there is a shade of the lotus leaves, and the lotus fragrance comes up, so pleasant. Li Shizhen of the Ming Dynasty also said that fishing can relieve "heart and spleen and hotness". The summer climate is hot, making people boring, anxious, and easy to "get angry". Fishing makes people quiet. It is a good choice for summer outdoor activities.

Ancient cold drinks also appeared early. At the end of the spring and autumn, the princes love to drink iced on the banquet: In the summer, the brewed rice wine is filtered to the lees, the ice is ice, the taste is sweet, the body and mind are refreshing, and it can drive the heat to avoid heat. "Zhou Li" also mentioned: "Spring at the beginning of the spring, all the meals in the outside world are ashamed, and the wine of the wine pulp is the same, sacrifice the icebook."

The "Jian" mentioned in the poem is Bingjian, which is a bronze ware used to pretend to be ice. It is divided into two layers inside and outside. The gap is used to install ice cubes, and then the fruits and drinks are brushed into the iced town in the icing. It can also be used to preserve and keep fresh. Is it a bit of "ancient refrigerator"? In "Chu Ci · Soul", there is a description of "frozen freezing, cooling", and appreciated the glutinous rice wine that has been frozen. Ah ".

Although the technology of ice and ice has long appeared, it is also limited to the court princes and wealthy homes. Ordinary people do not have the conditions to store ice cubes.

"Changan ice and snow, wait for the golden to wait for the golden cricket to the summer." -

The ice in the Tang Dynasty is expensive, but the well is very common. Usually the people use the water in the well to immerse melon peaches, and the entrance is cool and delicious. At the end of the Tang Dynasty, people found that the nitrogen was dissolved in water to absorb heat, which can cool down the water and freeze, and the price of ice cubes gradually becomes close to the people.

In addition, there is also a dessert "crispy mountain" similar to modern ice cream. First, heated a dairy product called "Crispy" to a nearly melting state, and then on the vessels such as the plate. Drip, pour the shape of the mountains, and finally place it in the ice cellar to freeze. Yang Wanli once praised the crispy Mountain "to be greasy and refreshing.

When the Song Dynasty was prosperous, there was a "cold drink store" on the market. Zhang Xuanduan's "Qingming Shanghe Tu" depicts some stalls that specialize in selling "drinks". "Martial Arts Old Things" and "Tokyo Menghua Record" and other records have recorded the "Fat House Happy Water" of the Song Dynasty. Planting drinks. In the Yuan Dynasty, Chen Ji had a poem, "The color of the color reflection is extraordinarily close, and the grace and ice cheese come to the beginning." It is mentioned that the "ice cheese" is the grace of the reward of the holy.

During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Sour Mei Decoction became one of the most favorite drinks at the time of people. Hao Yingxing in the Qing Dynasty wrote in the "Bamboo Branch of Du Gong", "Copper Bowl Sound Street, Ice Water and Mei Decoction." It is Lianzi Decoction, "Emperor Jing's Benn time" contains: "In June, the summer, the food and drink are the most fresh and fresh. Jingshi Lotus Eaters II; In addition, "Dutch Water" also appeared, similar to the current soda.

Seeing this, have you been unable to hold back your hand to the freezer? Although ice cream and ice drink, don't be greedy!

(Intern Hua Mengwei)

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