The weather in these days is gradually hot, and even in many places, the temperature has reached more than thirty degrees, in short, summer is coming, our living conditions are now very good, there is air conditioning and refrigerator, eating iced watermelon in a cool house, may be everyone's daily necessity in summer.
But the ancients did not have such good conditions, now we have a lot of exhaust emissions, but also let our temperature increase a lot, but in ancient times, the ancients were wearing a lot, women can not expose any part of the body, unlike now, you can wear a beautiful miniskirt.
And when the ancient emperors went to the dynasty, they were very formal, mainly to show their majesty, in the Forbidden City, people are not allowed to wear short sleeves, shirtless is a disrespectful behavior, that will only be the peasants in the land, may do so.
Emperors wore such a thick coat, naturally it was too hot, so how did the ancient emperor relieve the heat?
At that time, the technology was very backward, there was no air conditioning fan or the like, so the royal and other rich families, there was a special ice cellar, in the winter to store some ice cubes, in the summer, you can take it out to use, the emperor's ice cubes are naturally indispensable.
In addition to ice cubes, there is another very important role, that is, cool mats, after all, ordinary people, can not afford ice cubes.
The cool mat made of fine reeds is very good, because of the special material, so the surface of this kind of cool mat is very mild, and there is also a certain heat relief effect, which is used by the general noble family, followed by the cool mat woven by the peach bamboo fence, the sweat absorption ability is particularly strong, and the appearance is also beautiful, so it is deeply liked by the noble family.
There is also a kind of jade mat, but also the average person can not afford to use, the general jade mat is only available in the palace, this kind of cool mat, is made of a large piece of jade grinding, time-consuming and labor-intensive but very useful, jade is a warm thing, sleep is also very comfortable.
Maybe everyone will think that this kind of twice, is the emperors used, then you are wrong, because the jade mat is not the best, to know that ivory this kind of thing, the effect of relieving the heat is even better, the Yongzheng Emperor's men in order to please Yongzheng, they went around collecting ivory and making a precious cool mat.
Ivory is such a thing, in the present is a very valuable thing, it can be said that it is difficult to find, then people's technology is not developed, can get so many ivory, and then produce, must have spent a lot of effort.
After Yongzheng used it, he really liked it, but when he knew how it was made, he directly ordered that people were not allowed to make cold mats with ivory, which saved many elephants from disaster.