The Warring States Tomb excavated in 1977 unveiled the ancient summer artifact, and it turned out that the ancients drank ice cold wine thousands of years ago
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Hot summer, like the fire and the sun, everyone says that the heat is unbearable, modern people are naturally not afraid of heat, not afraid of summer heat, because we have quite mature summer equipment such as air conditioning, fans, etc., but in ancient China, without the support of modern technology, the extremely intelligent ancient people will come up with what kind of strange tricks to escape the summer? Explore the wonderful world of summer escape in ancient times today.
With the continuous development of ancient productive forces, by the Tang and Song dynasties, summer shelter had become an indispensable part of the life of the ancient Chinese people.
1. Ancient summer vacation sacred machine
1. Bronze ice book
Excavated in 1977 in the tomb of Marquis Zeng yi of Suixian County, Hubei Province, it was invented in the Warring States Period! It is made of a combination of copper jian and copper ribbon, and the sleeve is placed in the jian, which is the earliest summer escape tool in ancient China! The ancients preferred to drink alcohol, so it was also their tool for chilling fine wine.
2. Ancient sorbet cold drink
Chen Ji of the Yuan Dynasty said: "The color of the golden plate is close to the place, and the grace and ice cheese are given to the beginning." It can be seen that ancient iced pastries have also become a more important part of life, and in the Southern Song Dynasty, some cold drinks such as sweet bean soup, pear pulp, brine plum water, ginger honey water, papaya juice, lychee paste water, etc. are loved by the majority of civilians, and are also the source of happiness for summer coolness.
3. Ice bucket
Mostly made of mahogany, cypress and other materials, the mouth is large and the bottom is small, the form of a funnel, the upper cover is covered with thick wooden boards, the waist is fixed with copper, and the bottom has a wooden support for moisture insulation and moisture. It was loved by the Court and magnates of the Qing Dynasty, and the production cost was high, and ordinary people could not touch it at all, so the physical objects handed down were relatively rare.
2. Summer escape tips recorded in ancient books
According to Book IV of the Tang Yulin, "Emperor Xuanzong raised the temple,.... When the poison is very strong. On the cool hall, behind the seat water fan car, wind hunting clothes placket. .... The four corners of the water curtain flying, the seat contains frost. "It's about the cool hall, which is equipped with a mechanical refrigeration device, which can't help but make people exclaim the wisdom and creativity of the ancient people."
The third volume of the "Past Affairs of Wulin": "Forbidden to avoid the office, more imperial retro, choose deloitte hall and Cui Han Hall to cool down." Long pine and bamboo, thick green shade of the sun, layers of strange mountains, quiet and deep. The cold waterfall flies in the air, and the bet on the land can be ten acres. In the pond, there are thousands of stalks of red and white stalks, and the gardeners use wa'ang to plant different species, and arrange hundreds of pots of flowers such as underwater frangipani, Jianlan, musk vine, hibiscus, jade gui, red banana, etc. in Guangting..." It is also about the Liang Hall, which shows that the ancient court preferred to build a cool hall to escape the heat.
There are many summer shelters in ancient times, which can be said to be a more extensive way of summer escape, and the fifth volume of the Tang Yulin records that Yushi Dafu Wang Mou "has a rain pavilion in the house, and there are four notes on the eaves, when the summer is in place, it is as cold as high autumn." Liu Yuxi's poem "Liu Yuma Water Pavilion Avoidance" also describes the characteristics of the water pavilion: "A thousand poles of bamboo and green number lotus red, the water pavilion is empty and cool jade." Amber glows red and leaks rain, and crystal curtains are more ventilated. "The poem talks about the water pavilion, which transports cold water to the water tank at the top of the pavilion, and then lets the water flow down from the eaves, thus playing a role in avoiding the cooling of the department. This kind of water pavilion is inefficient, and it is quite expensive to build, such a building is only suitable for the dignitaries and nobles, and the ordinary people are not blessed.
There are countless ancient books like this, and we can also see that the summer escape methods used by the feudal nobles are complex and diverse, the consumption is larger, and the summer escape methods that ordinary people can access are relatively single. Therefore, the ancient summer was the summer of the people, not the summer of the feudal magnates!