Did you know that ice was used to refrigerate food as early as the Western Zhou Dynasty!
According to the "Book of Poetry and National Wind", it is recorded that the ice is rushed on the second day, and the third day is absorbed in Lingyin.
The "second day" here refers to the november of the lunar calendar, the "third day" refers to the first month of the lunar calendar, and the "Ling Yin" is the ice cellar.
This means that people start chiseling natural ice cubes in the winter lunar month and then storing them in ice cellars before the first month of the lunar calendar.
It is used to cool down in the summer.
In addition, there are also records of the ancients using ice in the "Zhou Li": Lingren palm ice, the first ten months of the year, ling chop ice, three Qiling, Spring Zhi jian, where the inside and outside urn of the meal shame Jian Yan, where the wine pulp liquor is also the same...
The "Lingren" here is the official who is specially responsible for ice storage, and the "Jian" is a bronze container.
It shows that at that time, people stored natural ice in winter and used to refrigerate food in summer.
During the Spring and Autumn Period, Zheng Bo was "addicted to alcohol and was a cave room", and the cave room was also called "Ling Yin", that is, the ice cellar;
Ji Wuzi of the Lu people has the saying that "the north land hides ice";
Chu GuoShen ShuYu "Fang Xia, Que underground ice and bed, heavy cocoon clothes, fresh food and sleep".......
Of course, this kind of ice cellar has been found in archaeology.
In the palace area of Yanxiadu in Ruyi County, three wells were found in the foundations of two houses, and cattle, sheep, chickens and other foods were also unearthed;
In the middle of the southern city of the Chu capital, there are eighteen wells densely packed in one place;
An underground building in the north of the Xinzheng Palace District in the Han capital was dug out neatly and neatly, and a large number of pigs, cattle, sheep, chicken bones, etc. were excavated;
Seven cave chambers were also found in the palace area of Yongcheng, the capital of Qin, all of which contained animal bones.
The "Lingyin" architectural relics are composed of cellars, five trough doors, roof trusses, eaves walls, roofs, cloisters and waterways that drain ice and melt water.
Because ice cubes are often stored in wells, the ancients also attached great importance to the environmental hygiene of "wells".
In the spring of March, people want to "make the well easy to water",
That is, to dig the dirt and silt in the well to remove the accumulated water.
The scale of the ice cellar is more detailed in the literature of the Two Jin Dynasties:
In the north, there are 140 ice wells, there are ice rooms, there are several wells in the room, the well is fifteen meters deep, and the ice and graphite are hidden.
This is the "ice well platform" built by Emperor Cao Cao of Wei in the northwest of Yecheng, there are 140 rooms, the upper is the ice chamber, the bottom is a lot of ice wells, the depth of the ice well is fifteen zhang, which is now 50 meters,
This ice chamber is also used to store graphite, that is, charcoal, and the advantage of storing coal in ice wells is to slow down the weathering of coal.
Royal ice is more exquisite,
Let's take the Qing Palace,
The cellar ice to be used in the palace is stored by the Ministry of Works.
In the summer, the palace distributes ice according to the status of each person, and of course, the emperor has the most ice.
These ice cubes are usually kept in the "refrigerator", that is, in metal boxes.
The "refrigerator" of the emperor and the empress is generally made of fine craftsmanship such as copper tire filigree enamel,
The large can hold a piece of ice about 2 feet wide, 3 feet long, and 1 foot thick, even in the middle of summer,
It will take a day to complete it all.
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