Preface
In the hot summer, the temperature is often as high as 40 degrees, and now everyone in the society is drilled in the air-conditioned room, and I don't know how to spend the summer without air conditioning.
In the summer, we are accompanied not only by air conditioning, but also by iced drinks and sorbets, all of which require refrigerators to produce.
So how did the ancients spend such a hot summer?
Without air conditioning, is it really possible to get through the hot summer with this fan?
How the ancients spent the summer
The wisdom of the ancients is endless, and the way to beat the heat now seems to us, and we can't help but marvel.
The clothes of the ancients were not as breathable as the fabric we have now, they were generally three layers inside and three layers outside, and women wore a tulle in the summer, while men would be shirtless or wear clothes like vests.
But the pants are very stuffy, the pants can not be worn, the ancients are still very face-loving, the fabric at that time did not absorb sweat and breathe.
Therefore, the ancients did their best in trousers, first borrowing from children's open crotch pants to make a "shin coat", which is similar to children's open crotch pants.
Walking on the street in these pants is very insecure, because there is a risk of walking out at any time.
Later, after generations of improvements, shorts, that is, "pointed trunks", were developed to the knee area of adults.
But this is only for men, women can only wear long skirts, and because the fabric is not breathable, it will still be very hot.
And because there was no paper to wipe the butt in ancient times, it would cause the butt to be wiped unclean, and the stuffy environment would lead to the breeding of bacteria, so the ancients would always get sick in the summer because the buttocks were not clean.
The poor can only take a fan to cool off in the shade of the trees, and at night they lie on a chair in the courtyard to cool off to spend the hot summer.
Some people have cellars, and the temperature inside the cellar is much cooler than outside, but people prefer to go to the shade of the trees to cool off than the cellar.
Not to mention whether the cellar will collapse or not, the things stored in the cellar generally emit a bad smell, and the air in the cellar is thin, so you can't stay for a long time.
Ice cubes were also available in ancient times, and these things were not worth much in the winter, but in the summer, they were not at all accessible to the poor.
In the winter, the rich would let their subordinates store a large amount of ice in the cellar for summer heat and to make cold drinks.
It is extremely shocking that the word cold drink appeared in ancient times, but the ancients had such wisdom, and they invented this kind of anti-heat artifact at that time.
In addition, it is the emperor and the people in the imperial family, the exclusive "summer resort", which is still preserved on the mainland, and has been developed into a scenic spot, and everyone can experience the life of the emperor at that time.
The summer resort is the greatest wisdom of the ancients, the place where the mountains and rivers are beautiful, the choice of place is very particular, and the temperature must be lower than that of other places, that is, the place by the mountains and rivers.
With mountains blocking direct sunlight and low temperatures from water, the temperature in this place is much cooler than in other places.
Moreover, the summer resort is built directly on the water, which directly reduces the temperature in the house.
This is only brought by geographical location, and the ancients have not yet used their own wisdom!
The building of "Ziyu Pavilion" reflects the wisdom of the ancients, and living in this house is completely cooler than an air-conditioned room.
All thanks to a waterwheel, which carries water directly to the roof and around the house, as if it were raining.
Water evaporation will take away the high temperature, which will cause the temperature in the house to be greatly reduced, and the water is still infinitely recycled, because it is like raining, the water continues to flow down from the roof, so it is called "self-rain pavilion".
When seeing such a building, everyone has to sigh that the wisdom of the ancients is really endless.
In addition, it is to dig a well directly in the house, and there are still many homes in the countryside that have their own wells.
The water in the well was exceptionally cold, as if it had just been taken out of the freezer.
Dig the well directly in the room, and then open the manhole cover to turn on the air conditioner, and close the manhole cover to turn off the air conditioner.
Well-cooling may not be as powerful as air conditioning, but the temperature in the house is comfortable and not stuffy.
In addition, there is a way to relieve the heat that we can't imagine, that is, the pillow that the ancients pillowed when they slept.
The pillows of the ancients were very hard and very high, that is because of the hairstyles of the ancients, the hair of the ancients was very long for both men and women, and all the high pillows were pillowed by the ancients, and the hair also had a place to put it.
This does not cause the stuffiness of the hair when sleeping, and the material used to make the pillow.
Generally, wooden pillows are used, but in summer, the ancients will use porcelain pillows, porcelain is very cold, and the ancients pillow on it is very comfortable to relieve the heat.
When you sleep, you won't be able to sleep because your hair is too long.
Sometimes I use bamboo pillows, so why do I use bamboo, just look at the mattress I have on my bed in the summer.
Despite the heat in the room, the mattress on the bed is still very cool, and lying on it without air conditioning can greatly reduce the heat emitted by the body.
When it comes to mats, the ancients naturally also had their own mats, that is, jade beds, which are much colder than mattresses.
But the only people who can use the jade bed are the people in the emperor's royal family.
So the ancients spent the hot summer in more ways than we think, and they used their wisdom to create countless things that are comparable to our high-tech equipment today.
epilogue
The wisdom of the ancients is endless, and a large part of the 5,000-year historical development of China and our current scientific and technological achievements are all researched by imitating the technology of the ancients.
But it is the rich who can spend the summer and winter very comfortably, while the poor spend winter and summer as if they were in a catastrophe.
In ancient times, the gap between the rich and the poor was very huge, and "Zhumen wine and meat stinky road with frozen bones" is the best description of the society at that time.
We should cherish our lives now.