Now in midsummer, girls can't wait to go out wearing suspenders. No, no, they won't go out at all, even if they are killed. We will just lie in bed, blow air conditioning and eat watermelons that have just been taken out of the refrigerator in the cold. This is the right way to open them in summer. But after all, we are an outstanding young man full of curiosity, and we are also curious about how we lived in the days when there was no air conditioning in ancient times.
? You know, people can entertain themselves at any time, so even without a high-tech past, they have a good life. ? Some people say that the ancient environment was good, so the temperature was not so high, and summer was easy. I just want to ask, little brothers and sisters, have you checked the information? Do you know how high the temperature can be in summer in history? 1July 25th, 743, that is, eight years after Qianlong, the highest temperature in China was 44.4 degrees, and the extreme heat disaster almost covered more than half of China. It is conservatively estimated that people die from this high temperature.
But you don't need to think about it. It's basically the working people who die of heat. In ancient times, rich people probably didn't have to do anything, and they had to live comfortably with money. First of all, they will work hard on the house. Do you think they are poor without air-conditioned rooms? No, they have an "ice room", which appeared as early as the Zhou Dynasty. Putting ice cubes in the room and closing the doors and windows are much more comfortable than our dry air-conditioned room, and it is also green and environmentally friendly. In the Han dynasty, there was even a "temperature regulating hall" in winter and a "cool hall" in summer, with stones as beds and slats as ice. By the Tang Dynasty, more technical equipment appeared, and they could use water to turn the fan blades. When fan blades are used to blow away the cold of ice, the whole room can "shine".
Or simply build a mansion in a place with plenty of water and deep forests, and adjust the temperature by nature. Like the famous chengde mountain resort, what is even more shocking is the cool house. The ancients could send water to the roof by mechanical principle and let it flow down naturally. Water curtain cave, proper, is a luxury.
However, some people are curious about whether there were refrigerators in ancient times and where did the ice come from? The Book of Songs says: "The second day, breaking the ice, the third day, Nalingyin." Yes, Lingyin is an ice house, but it is not affordable for ordinary people. It was not until the Republic of China that ordinary people could afford it. However, during the prosperous Tang Dynasty, people still sold ice in the streets in summer, so although the masses could not afford to hide large pieces of ice, we could buy small pieces. Generally, ice banks are built six or seven meters below the surface. In the cold winter of1February, the ice cubes were dug out and put in the ice room, then sealed and kept warm with reed hay cotton to reduce the loss of ice cubes. However, no matter how you do it, it is impossible not to melt at all, so you should chisel more and you will be able to show off in an ostentatious manner the next summer. The royal family also has a special ice harvesting department. These people are called "spiritual people". In fact, a long time ago, when the Tang Dynasty was developing gunpowder, it was discovered that saltpeter could make ice. When saltpeter is dissolved in water, it will absorb a lot of heat and make the water cool and freeze. However, we must know that saltpeter used to make gunpowder is not made at home, but for military use. Coupled with the lack of ancient materials, the demand for ice is large, and it is more cost-effective to collect ice naturally.
Now we can eat ice cream and all kinds of iced juice drinks in summer. That's so cool. I can eat from morning till night if my mother doesn't let me. Well, that's what we can eat. What did the ancients eat in summer? In fact, they are still very fun.
? The ancients also had "refrigerators". After all, as long as there is ice, everything is easy to say. Rich people have something called "ice guide", which is covered with ice to put drinks and cold drinks in minutes. Lu you has a poem: "waxy cherry, peach and cheese eat together." In the Song Dynasty, rich people would pour peaches and cherries with sugar, put them in some jade plates and porcelain bowls, and live a picturesque life. Mr. Jin Yi once described in "A Talk about Maids": "The palace is famous for dim sum, with candied fruit in autumn and winter and a' sweet bowl' in summer. "Sweet Bowl" is a summer snack. Slice the newly picked lotus root buds, mix them with the pulp inside the melon, remove the seeds and eat them chilled. Break the green walnut, peel off the astringent tender skin inside, pour grape juice on it, and eat it chilled. "Sure enough, the life of the rich is different.
Herbal tea and mung bean soup on the market are also famous for relieving summer heat. Is there often a small pavilion on the roadside in martial arts dramas, where a beautiful evil sister-in-law is cool? Hero, have a rest with a pot of herbal tea, and then all kinds of love and hate, er, digress, let's continue to talk about ancient food. However, in ancient times, herbal tea was called "boiled water", that is, adding tea or traditional Chinese medicine to boiled water was also very sweet. Even Li Qingzhao wrote that "cardamom is fried in boiling water, regardless of tea." There are also perilla boiled water, agarwood boiled water and Ophiopogon japonicus boiled water, which can cool and quench thirst and remove fire for health. Everyone has a bowl, which is simply a good thing. After the defeat of the Song Dynasty, the folk customs were still very open and the business was extremely developed. There are all kinds of good things in the street, especially in summer, such as snow soaked in bucket water, snow soaked in Mei Huajiu, licorice ice and cold water, litchi paste, perilla drink, syrup, sugarcane juice, coconut water and lactose snow. Dairy products were very popular in Yuan Dynasty. You said dairy products and cheese should be chilled, like ice cream! Really? Don't talk about these purchases, and I don't know what "additives" have been added to things outside. You can also make a lot of "soup cakes" at home to escape the heat, or melons, lotus leaves and lotus seeds. Is it often in TV series that male and female servants cook lotus seed soup for you? The characteristic watermelons in summer may have appeared from the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms to the Southern Song Dynasty, and then China became the largest watermelon producing area in the world, which easily lost its flavor in the refrigerator. However, when it is frozen in well water, the taste is absolutely unique. Fang Hui mentioned in Autumn Ripe that "watermelon can quench thirst and split the skin of Qingyao".
You know, not everyone can use the impeller fan. The most direct way to cool down is wind, that is, fan. After all, it is the simplest and cheapest. Pick any big leaf and I can fan the wind. As we all know, the evolutionary history of fans can write several books for a long time. Here is a brief introduction. Fans of the poor can be made of reed stalks, which are durable and soft. On summer nights, neighbors get together to enjoy the cool. Those who don't have the money to work hard, can live a delicious life, which is the most real lamp. Everything in rich families is very expensive. Every trace, every tile can produce exquisite flowers. This fan is made of silk, which is light and beautiful. Scholars get together to draw a poem, and I'll write a poem. As soon as the folding fan is opened, I am the sexiest boy in this street.
In ancient times, the restrictions on women were extremely strict. Everyone's skin is eager to be cut alive. Anyone who knows a little about ancient costumes knows that clothes are boring one by one, but do you remember the minister in the history book who can see moles on his body wearing five pieces of silk? Yes, ancient silk is very thin, very thin, "floating lightly with the wind" and "nothing". Their robes are wide and they walk with wind. The ladies in the Tang Dynasty were all very happy. They can wear tube tops and short sleeves, which are cool and beautiful.
Now, children must take special classes to learn swimming. In ancient times, children, especially those born by the lake, did not need to be taught at all. When it was hot, they played in the water in droves, but now they still need the company of adults. After all, it is dangerous. If you are not careful, people will be gone. Some idle talented people and beautiful women can also swing in the lotus leaves and drink wine leisurely, so that their calves and arms will be immersed in the water and take off a piece of tender white.
In summer, the ancients had sleeping mats, which were made of cattail, reeds and bamboo sticks, also called bamboo sticks. Xin Qiji has a saying: "Yunlong is old, so he might as well lie high and curling is cold." There is also a poem by Li Qingzhao: "Lotus root fragrance, the jade hairpin here is not jade, but bamboo hairpin." Of course, I don't object to the rich using jade. After all, there are jade railings on several jade beds, and it's not unusual to have a jade hairpin or something. The ancients also wore sachets of wormwood, musk and mint to repel mosquitoes, and women staged tricks that were pleasing to the eye, not only fragrant in the air, but also giving and receiving in private.
? However, the ultimate way to escape the heat is not to rely on external forces, but to be cool from the inside out, calm and natural. Bai Juyi said, "Why bother to sit in the hospital in the heat?" There is nothing in front of me but the breeze under the window. The heat dissipation changed from calm to cool, and the room was empty. At this time, it is difficult to spend more time with others. "Look, not human, but not ordinary people. This detached state, this refined and refreshing state of mind can only be beyond the reach of ordinary people. But with air conditioning, what are we afraid of? In short, it won't die of heat.
The life of ancient people in summer was like this. They can't help feeling that flowers can be planted wherever there is money, but we have to live without money. We face life positively and happily, and I can turn myself into a flower without money. There are flowers in spring, the moon in autumn and food, drink, sleep and snow in winter.
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