Xi'an Geography ｜ Search for Xi'an Bingjiao Lane

Summer is hot and lives in the room, and rarely goes out, but live in air -conditioned rooms for a long time. The heat does not feel it, but the shoulders and necks are stiff, back pain, and back pain. In the past, I only said that I was afraid of cold or hot, especially in sunny days and sunlight. Now I can't say such words. So in a complaint about the weather, the ancients were read. In the past, I only felt that ice cream and beverages could be enjoyed by people today. Later, when I watched "Tokyo Menghua Record", I realized that there were various flavors of ice water cold drinks in ancient summer. I heard that there is a place where Xi'an has a clear hiding ice, calling the ice cellar lane, and she wants to explore it. When the day and yin, the hot sun was temporarily concealed, and then she went out at ease, and took the subway from the south of the city to the north, and I was looking forward to it.

Old Time Bingjiao Lane Street Jingtao Painting

Sometimes looking for an alley that has never arrived, drilled in, walked quietly, looked quietly, and felt quietly. After I followed the map, I was lightly dressed, and when I arrived at that alley and stayed quietly for a long time, I suddenly felt like this that seemed to be in a strange city. Bingjiao Lane is an irregular alleyway composed of three -segment short alley. After the new city, the residential lane was gradually formed. It was named Bingjiao Lane because of the Qin Francisco Palace of the Ming Dynasty and the Manchu bureaucratic summer hiding ice.

After I turned from Sifu Street to the left, the map prompted to reach the destination, so I relaxed my body and mind and started to feel it. It seems to be to find coolness, but deliberately looking for is often unparalleled. There are few trees in the ice cellar alleys. This is what I am surprised. It may have seen the coolness and the tree as an indiscriminate relationship in my subjective imagination, but in fact, in fact, in fact, in fact, in fact, in fact, in fact otherwise. There are some low -old communities in the alley. I always like low -rise buildings. It is best and old. It gives people a sense of time and story, and I will feel cool. Unlike high -rise buildings, people always feel hard and have no tenderness. When I turned from the first section of the lane to enter the other short lane in the north and south, a cool wind suddenly came on, and I started to be happy. It is said that Bingjiao Lane has been transformed, so there are pictures on the walls of the short lanes in this short lane. There are some historical celebrities on the right wall, and the left side is the old Xi'an city. Gate, Ximen in 1952, North Gate in 1984, the Big Wild Goose Pagoda in 1964, and the Drum Tower in 1983. These old times in Xi'an City are so now on the walls in the Bingjiao Lane, let some people who have never seen the old face of the city to watch, and let some people who enter the city for the first time to watch, so I took out my phone and greedily remaked each of the photos, because I have never seen the old appearance of the city, because I was born too late. Several old people in the alley talked about gossip, Xu used me as tourists from other places, and looked at me silently. At this moment, a white dog came to me. It also stopped and stared at my outsiders. Xu was thinking, where the stranger came from wandering here. I squatted down and teased it for a while, and then quietly left. It was at that time that I had a feeling of in a different place.

Along the north -south alley, the more and more cool, the more cool, and it seemed that there was a burst of cold wind. The north of the alley has the road sign of Bingjiao Lane, and there is also a explanation of this alley. It is said that in the north of the ice cellar lane, there is an ice cellar of the Bingbang of the Ming and Qing Guanfu. The ice cellar is digging the channel on the ground, the ice is storage in winter, and the insulation substances such as sawdust are paved around the cushion to prepare the ice in the summer. At that time, in the cold winter, the government began to organize manpower to collect ice. In the next summer, it was about around the Dragon Boat Festival.

In fact, in the north of China, the custom of hiding ice in winter for summer is long. As early as the Xia Dynasty, every time in the three volts, the court would give Tibetan ice as precious gifts to the royal family and bureaucracy. From the Zhou Dynasty, officials in charge of Bingbing were also set up, called "Ling people". Since then, specialized officials have been established to manage ice -Tibetan affairs. "The Book of Songs · Wind Feng · July" contains: "The two days of chiseling the ice, the three days of Lingyin." In the coldest "two days", that is, in the lunar calendar in December, the government began to organize slaves to organize slaves The harmonious people go to the place where the water quality is good and freeze the ice. According to a certain size and thickness, it is cut into a block of different sizes and hidden in the pre -prepared ice cellar. Because at this time, the weather is the most cold, the ice cubes are the hardest and difficult to melt. Even so, every summer, the hidden ice is still much melted.

The ancients had two uses of ice. One was the summer heat in summer; the other was to make cold drinks. In other words, when we took out a piece of ice cream in the refrigerator in the hot summer and wanted to seek coolness and feel that the refrigerator is really convenient now, the ancients did not lack cold drinks and other things to cool down the heat. It is said that during the Tang Xuanzong period, Yang Guozhong got the momentum. In the summer, there was a banquet at home, and he made his men carved into icebergs around the banquet with big ice cubes. The use of ice in diet was common in the Zhou Dynasty. For example, the prince of the ancient princes in ancient times required to be ice for drinking in summer. Otherwise, the plasma wine at that time was easily fermented and sour at high temperature. Because of this, China produced the earliest ice -made cold drink. After the Sui and Tang dynasties, cold drinks began to be sold in the market. In the Song Dynasty, the ice industry had achieved industrialization. Due to the market needs, the number of summer -saving shops in Summer system increased in Liangliang City, and the prices were naturally affordable. Therefore, in the summer season, the Song people can not only eat planer ice at home, but also buy all kinds of cheap cold drinks on the street. Therefore, when I read "Tokyo Menghua Record", "Martial Arts", "Mengliang Record" and "West Lake Elderly Man", there are more or less refreshing things that Song people like to eat in summer. Such as snow -retained peel drink, perilla drink, bayberry thirst, five flavors of thirst, gum thirst water, lychee cream water, riverside water, ginger and water water, mung bean water, coconut water, briner water, sugar cane juice, pear, pear, pear Purch, cold acid, papaya pulp, grapes, bayberry pulp, etc. In the "Qingming Shanghe Tu" of the painter Zhang Ziduan, there is also the image of "drinking" of various ice beverages under the large umbrella under the large umbrella. The so -called "fragrant drink" is the ice water of various fruit flavors. The hottest net red ice products in Kaifeng in the Northern Song Dynasty are "ice and snow cold Yuanzi" and "ice cheese". Among them, "ice cheese" is the ingredients such as sugar and cheese in the broken ice or shaving ice, which is a bit similar to the current ice cream. After the poet Yang Wanli tasted the "ice cheese", he wrote a poem: "It seems that it is greasy and it is refreshing, and it is condensed and wanting to float. The frozen cheese appeared, which was later introduced by Marco Polo to the West by Marco Polo.

Now that Ice ice is made of ice, the custom of the ice has been spreading long for a long time, so during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the use of ice and unlocking of ice can only be more extensive. In fact, when we watched some Qing Palace dramas, we can occasionally see the scene of the summer emperor appreciating the ice to the concubine. So at the time, where did these ice sources hidden in the Bingjiao Lane of Xi'an? To this end, I deliberately consulted some information, which probably said that at the time of the Batshui of the Tibetan ice, the eight water, Taiyi Palace in the south of the city. The second is the area of ​​the Egret Bay and Longquan in the west of the Bingjiao Lane. In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, there was a large pool. Every winter, the ice layer was thick and became a place to take ice.

Today, I ca n’t see this ice cellar. The north of the alley is a church. I glanced at it and returned to the original road. When you go to the intersection of the three short lanes on the south, turn around to the west. There are also some low -old communities in the short lanes on the west, but there are some shops under the community. There are music in the 1970s and 1980s in a shop that sells coffee. After a long day, standing quietly in place to leave, just want to feel the atmosphere. After going out to the west alley, it is a sweet water well, which is also a street that is suitable for summer. The shade of the streets in the streets and the breeze blew up. Moreover, only a few steps can go to the city wall, and the city wall can just make people quiet and everything complement each other.

When I came here, it seemed to leave Bingjiao Lane. In fact, I think if this alley has memory or emotions, it should be pleased with my visit. Because in the end of the Qing Dynasty, due to the influence of the current situation and the climate, the ice cellar in the ice cellar lane gradually abandoned. The only thing that retained was the name of this "ice cellar lane". But even the name of the glorious memory of this alley was changed to "Hongya Sanxiang" in the 1960s and 1970s, and it was not until 1972 that the original name was restored. Therefore, Bingjiao Lane seems to be getting farther and farther from the most glorious period of it. With the replacement of the times, it lives silently. But I think, if it has emotions, it should know its former value. If it has memory, it should be lonely and lonely.

The moment I walked from sweet water wells to the roots of the city wall, I had gone away from Bingjiao Lane, but the coolness it brought to me this summer was carved in my heart forever. Next summer, maybe one day, I will come again.

Source: "Xi'an Evening News", September 4, 2022, 7 version, author: Ma Ting

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