How did people in ancient times cool off in the summer? What is the difference between the common pe

According to the records of the Song Dynasty Meng Yuanlao's "Tokyo Menghualu", but also thanks to the developed commodity economy at that time, shops selling cold drinks at that time were often open until midnight.

In the Yuan Dynasty, people at that time would also process milk and ghee, and then freeze it to make the earliest ice cream, but the name at that time was "ice cheese".

Speaking of which, some people may wonder: how did the ice cubes used to make popsicles come from, and how did the early ice cream freeze?

How did the ice come about.

According to records, as early as the Zhou Dynasty, an official position was set up specifically for Bing, called "Ling Ren", and its subordinate institution was "Bing Zheng".

Because of the limited level of productivity and the degree of technological development, people did not have the technology to make ice at that time, so they could only obtain it from Hubo in winter, and then store the ice in a special ice cellar, and then distribute it by Zhou Tianzi in summer.

Trapped by the conditions of ice extraction and ice storage, it is difficult to enjoy ordinary **.

It was not until the Tang Dynasty that the situation improved.

Because of the improvement of gunpowder in the Tang Dynasty, people also accidentally discovered that saltpeter, one of the main raw materials for making gunpowder, has the property of absorbing heat, so people at that time made wonderful use of it and finally mastered the method of making ice.

After having ice-making, let's look at the ice storage technology - "Ice Inspection".

Bingjian can also be understood as an early refrigerator.

The earliest Bingjian was also contributed by the Zhou Dynasty, and the Bingjian was generally made of wood or bronze, and the interior was divided into two layers, the inner layer could be used to put food, and the outer layer was placed with ice cubes, which could not only be convenient to eat, but also played a role in reducing room temperature.

The common people's weapon to reduce the heat - wells.

Because of the complexity of ice extraction, ice production and ice storage, it is also difficult for ordinary people to obtain the convenience, so the well has become their main tool to cool off.

For example, when many of us were young, we would put watermelons in the well in the summer to "refrigerate".

In addition to cooling food, the well also has the effect of releasing cold air like an air conditioner, for example, Cao Cao once dug a deep well in Yecheng to collect cold air.

The specific method is to dig a well in the room, but this well is not necessarily used for drawing water, and there must be a cover with a hole on it, so that it has the effect of being warm in winter and cool in summer.

Summerhouse. About the pavilion is not only the kind of simple pavilion that everyone understands, but the real high-tech pavilion is the "Hanliang Palace" of the Tang Dynasty.

Hanliang Hall is often built at the water source, and the use of artificially made large waterwheels to imitate the effect of rainfall, the outside of the hall is the use of water as a power of large fans to fan towards the water curtain, so as to fan the effect of air conditioning to the interior.

In addition to these natural cooling methods that need to be used or transformed, there are semi-manpower hand-cranked fans driven by shafts, cool pillows, and large winter melons that are placed in the well to cool down, and are sleeping at night to cool down, etc.

Ordinary people can sit under the big tree to enjoy the shade, take a puff fan to fan the wind, and eat watermelon, nobles can put ice cubes in the house to cool down, and there are special people to fan fans, and ice cubes can be stored in ancient times.

In ancient times, there were many interesting ways to cool off, such as the wealthy who could store ice in the winter and cool off in the summer, chill fruits and drinks, and build cool houses next to the reservoir. Ordinary people can hang curtains, use stone pillows, and shake fans to enjoy the coolness.

In the summer, the main tool of the ancients to cool down was the ice cube, and in the Qing Dynasty, it has been recorded that the winter ice cube was put in the cellar and waited for the next summer to be used. However, the preparation of diet is also the main way for the ancients to cool off and maintain their health. Ordinary people like to make summer soup to cool off.

The imperial physician in the palace also prescribes traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions to cool off in the summer.

In the hot summer, the temperature gradually increases. In the last few days, the temperature has reached 40 degrees in many places. This has brought a lot of inconvenience to people's lives, and air conditioning has also become an indispensable tool in summer.

Some people wonder how the ancestors who lived in ancient times survived the hot weather without air conditioning? In fact, at this point, the ancients did not need to worry. You know, the ancients were not as primitive as we think.

In ancient times, people spent their summer vacations in a variety of ways and utensils, but also very pleasantly.

At first, people could only use fans in the summer. Fans were probably the most common way to cool down in ancient times. At that time, most families had fans to cool down in the summer.

People with good economic conditions would buy fans made of silk, and some literati calligraphers would use their own fans or other people's fans to write poems and paintings. If you had to choose between winter and summer, I'm sure most people would choose winter. Because it is cold in winter, you can keep warm in various ways.

Except for the low temperature in winter, everything else is normal. But in summer, it's not just about the sun's heat.

People sweat, sweat sticks to clothes, and it makes people very anxious. Being restless and not being able to think about a lot of things is the main reason why many people hate summer. The ancient buildings are different from the current buildings, and modern people mostly live in reinforced concrete.

Most of our ancestors lived in single-family houses made of brick and wood. Although this kind of house has only four beams and eight columns, it is well ventilated and sheltered by eaves, so it is sunny, warm in winter and cool in summer. In addition to this kind of house, many wealthy people will also set up water pavilions.

To put it simply, they use water wheels to recycle cold water. The cold air generated during the process can effectively reduce the temperature. Especially at the end of the Ming Dynasty, this kind of water pavilion has entered the homes of ordinary people.

Not only to cool buildings, the ancients knew how to store ice cubes from an early age, hiding them in the cold winter and selling them along the streets in the summer. Not only that, but people also eat chilled watermelons and drink ice water. The original appearance of the refrigerator.

During the Spring and Autumn Period, the predecessor of the refrigerator was the "original refrigerator" copper ice. The Bronze Ice Roll is a vessel consisting of a bronze vessel and a wine vessel. It cools the wine by using ice around the bottle.

This is also the earliest refrigerator in ancient Chinese history, "Chu Ge Soul Calling" has such a sentence: "Pour the dregs, frozen wine is better." It is to drink wine in the summer, remove the foam and then freeze it later.

It tastes cold and sweet. Very comfortable. The record is Bronze Icewine.

But at that time, the cost of making copper ice was very high, and only those who had the strength could use it.

In ancient times, ordinary people generally relied on shade and well water to escape the heat at home, and the temperature in ancient times was relatively normal, and it was not particularly hot in summer.

In the summer, sit under a big tree, fan it to cool off, wear a small amount of clothing, drink cold water, and use ice cubes until it cools.

The ancients wore cool clothes in summer. There will be fan mats. There will also be porcelain pillows. Some people also have ice stored in their homes.

If you had to choose between winter and summer, I believe most people would choose winter. Because although the winter is very cold, you can warm yourself by various means. And in winter it's just that the temperature is low, and the rest is normal.

But in summer, it's not just about the sun. People sweat and sweat sticks to their clothes, which can make people very anxious. Restlessness and inability to think about many things is the main reason why many people hate summer.

In modern times, we can also use various electrical appliances such as air conditioners and fans to cool ourselves. But in ancient times, people didn't have that kind of blessing. They were so hot that they were so sick that they were even burned to death.

The Qing Dynasty had two major weather changes, one was the "Xiaoice Age" that occurred at the beginning of the Qing Dynasty. At that point, everything was frozen. Dripping water turns into ice, and crops can't grow.

Even in Guangdong, where there is a perennial high temperature, it snows heavily. When people go out, they get deep in the snow. Countless people have lost their lives in this harsh winter.

In 1731, the Qing Dynasty ushered in a second weather change. All parts of the country have been hit by unprecedented heat. It was just May, and it was already unbearably hot.

The scorching sun scorched the ground, and many innocent people were burned to death. Even some of the iron tools were melted by the sun.

This situation is especially serious in Beijing. Because there were many tall buildings in Jingshi, there was no air conditioning at that time, and the heat could not be dissipated at all. It's all stored between the bricks and tiles, and it's constantly being sent out.

As a result, the temperature of the entire city has risen a lot. Some people are walking on the road and are directly fainted by the heat.

Calculations are made based on historical records and the algorithms of the time. Because of the scorching heat, more than 10,000 people died inside and outside the Jingshi because of the heat. And in that scorching heat, the highest temperature reached 44 degrees.

In an era when there were no fans and air conditioners, the wind from the fan at a high temperature of 44 degrees was hot. Relying on the human body to endure it, it is simply not able to withstand this high temperature.

Although this emperor is said to be the pride of the sky, he is still human at heart. Emperor Qianlong back then, even if someone fanned hard with a fan behind him, he was unbearably hot. But fortunately, the emperor is always a bit privileged.

There was no air conditioning at that time, but there was natural ice

A total of eighteen ice cellars have been set up in various parts of the capital, which are filled with natural ice. These ice cellars are not open to the common people, but only to the palace and the government. At the same time, there are also artificially cooled houses in various places, which have mats and ice cubes.

If you rest inside, you won't feel the heat. The only people who can enjoy this privilege are those dignitaries. And the people can only endure it, under this scorching sun.

In ancient times, ordinary people relied on their own houses to spend their summers, however, in ancient times, summers were not so hot because of the good environment in ancient times.

1. Chill under the tree and shake the fan.

2. Hang a piece of wet cloth around your neck and wipe it when it's hot.

3. The old men are shirtless and blowing the wind under the tree.

4. Eating an old popsicle for a few cents, happy like a fairy.

For example, the simplest and most effective methods are to fan bamboo fans, eat watermelon, drink cool well water, and go down to the river to take a shower, take a dip in the shade of trees, and so on.

The porcelain pillow surface is a layer of glaze, which is cool and suitable for summer. The ancients hung jasmine, pearl orchid and other fragrant flowers in the tent, which refreshed people's hearts and spleens at night, and was useful for promoting sleep.

Ordinary people would cool off by taking shade under big trees, fanning the wind with fans, and cooling down with mountain spring water.

Summer has always been a very hot season. Whether in ancient times or in modern times, people have their own unique ways to relieve the heat. Although people did not have air conditioners and fans in ancient times to relieve the heat,But they also relied on their own wisdom to develop and create some tools to escape the heat.

In ancient times, because the common people were already very poor, they naturally did not have too much money, and they could buy some chilled fruits to relieve the heat. For most commoners in ancient times, their tools to relieve the heat in the summer were some fans they made.

1. Ancient people took refuge from the summerThe ancient people's life was relatively backward, and their way of escaping the summer was naturally different from the way modern people avoided the summer. However, in many ancient people's ways of escaping the summer, people of different ranks and identities also had different ways of escaping the summer. In other words, there was a big difference between the summer vacation methods of some nobles in ancient times and the summer vacation methods of ordinary people.

There is a world of difference between the two ways to escape the heat.

2. The way of summer vacation of the aristocracy In ancient times, people of different classes adopted different ways to escape the heat. Although the summer vacation methods of the nobles in ancient times were not as good as some modern summer methods, they were also a relatively advanced way of summer vacation in ancient times. In ancient times, the aristocracy's general way to escape the heat was to drink some cold drinks.

In particular, the emperor in the palace would put some fruits and ice cream into the ice cellar every summer. Whenever the emperor felt the heat, these fruits came in handy. In addition, the emperor and the people in the imperial palace generally had a summer palace, which in ancient times was also called a summer resort.

3. It is more difficult for civilians to escape the summer than in winter. Because most of the common people don't have much money, their way to escape the heat in summer is also very simple, making a fan by hand to escape the heat.

The ancients relied mainly on ice cubes and fans to escape the heat in the summer. This was the practice of the aristocracy. Civilians, on the other hand, mainly rely on wearing very few clothes to escape the heat.

Generally, they go to the river, or under the shade of trees to escape the heat, and civilians still have to work, and the summer is really not easy, it is very hot.

In the summer, people mainly used their own fans to escape the heat, and after work, they generally enjoyed the shade under the big trees. For the nobles, they could also use ice to escape the heat, but for the common people, they could only cool down by fans.

Ancient emperors used ice to cool down, and there were also summer resorts. It's not easy for civilians, to cool down by hand with paper.