When selling ice, it comes from the water, and pedestrians don't eat their hearts.

Sweet frost and snow are like sugar cane, and seeds are planted at the foot of Nanshan every year.

-"Lychee Song"

Yang Wanli's poems not only pointed out the Song people's love for bingo, but also pointed out that the ancients could eat bingo in summer by digging a cellar in winter without a refrigerator.

Iced litchi

For eating, Song people are professional. In their hands, ice cubes can not only be used to ice fruits, but also create all kinds of cool and frozen drinks.

1. A wide variety of cold drinks in the Song Dynasty were contracted by the ancients in the hot summer of the Song Dynasty: herbal tea, snow soaked Mei Huajiu, sour plum soup and papaya juice.

Cold drinks in the Song Dynasty were collectively called "cold water". After subdivision, the cold drink family is divided into four branches: fruit juice, herbal tea, wine and soup.

The fruit juice in Song Dynasty not only refers to the familiar fruit juice, but also refers to a kind of beverage made by adding fruit and sugar together to make thick juice, and then adding water to blend it. The juice made by this method is also called "sharbat". More common fruits that can be cooked with sugar are peaches, bayberry, papaya, oranges and so on.

Drinking fruit juice in Song Dynasty is a bit like drinking milk tea and shrimp in summer. The store will first scoop a spoonful of juice from the pot and then add a bowl of crushed ice to you. Usually the store will tell you: drink slowly, it tastes better if it is iced!

Ancient people all know that in Song Dynasty, if you want to drink a cup of delicious frozen juice, you must go to a large deli or hotel, because only businessmen like them have enough money to dig a cellar to store ice.

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Herbal tea is the most common summer drink in cities in Song Dynasty. There are large and small tea shops, teahouses, teahouses and tea shops on both sides of the Bianhe River in the Qingming Festival.

For Song people, drinking tea is not only a way to relieve summer heat and thirst, but also a daily leisure way for citizens. Wang Anshi once said: "The use of tea is equal to the salt of rice, and you can't leave it for a day."

People living in Bianjing City like to invite some friends and relatives to Bianqiao for tea in the evening. Because at Bianqiao, you can not only see the "Qiao Zhou Bright Moon", which is known as the eight scenic spots in Bianjing, but also experience the bustling and lively "Qiao Zhou Night Market".

There is a poem:

The stone bridge stands high in the ditch, and the moonlight is as cold as silver.

The silver que in Aodan Mountain is surging, and the rainbow light floats over the sea jade beam.

The fragrant car has gone to the flower market and the tea song is still upstairs.

Several times, someone blew the phoenix tube, and the scenery in Bianzhou was better than that in Hangzhou.

Tea stalls in the streets of Song Dynasty

In the night market, if the citizens are lucky enough, they can still see the scene of fighting tea.

Song people paid great attention to drinking tea. They don't drink tea directly with boiled water. At that time, their tea was usually made into tea cakes. When people in Song Dynasty drank tea, they knocked off a piece of tea cake, first ground the tea into powder with a tea mill, and then brewed it with boiling water. In this process, the tea maker needs to stir the tea soup with a teapot to make it show various "soup flowers".

Tea-ordering works: Yuanshan Mountain, named for its bird-like tea soup and picturesque landscape.

Song people like to drink, and they have reached the point where they can't eat without wine. Mr. Li Huarui, a scholar of Song history, once estimated that there were at least 15900000 tons of wine circulating in the market during the ten years of Xining in the Northern Song Dynasty.

In the Song Dynasty, only official shops licensed by the imperial court could make wine. There are 72 government-run shops in Bianjing City, which are responsible for producing and supplying hundreds of kinds of fine wines circulating in the whole metropolis.

In the Northern Song Dynasty, there was a Qingfeng Building Hotel in Bianjing City. The shopkeeper is good at business. According to different seasons, he can always introduce some attractive goods. For example, in summer, shops will sell "Snow Bubble Mei Huajiu" and "Coconut Wine" to attract customers. Citizens all know that there is such a good place, and the surrounding residents regard it as a good place for summer parties. These people "enjoy the coolness here in summer".

This store sells "Mei Huajiu" in various ways. First of all, the wine should be chilled with ice cubes, and it needs to be served with a silver spoon and drum music "Plum Blossom Introduction". On a hot summer day, in such a happy atmosphere, it is almost comfortable for guests to have a sip of "Mei Huajiu Snow Bubble".

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Soup drink is a kind of "medicine drink" that Song people like very much to relieve summer heat. The Sour Plum Soup, Bai Mei Soup, Mume Soup and Osmanthus fragrans Soup that we are drinking now belong to the soup drinking family.

Soup drinking, also known as "drinking" and "fragrant drinking", can be seen from the Forbidden City to the street.

The emperor of the Song Dynasty liked to give soup to soldiers and minions who traveled far away in summer to express his concern, so the literati regarded it as a very glorious thing to drink soup. The emperor simply stipulated that "all civil servants, such as candidates, envoys, etc." People who don't have a job field or lack a job field can get extra "tea soup money" in addition to their summer salary.

Soup is sweet, pleasant and refreshing. It quenches thirst and relieves summer heat in summer and is deeply loved by the people.

In the Song Dynasty, vendors went to the market early in the morning with buckets and tableware filled with soup and drinks, waiting for the arrival of guests. All they have to do is put up an umbrella to wipe the cloth, pile beds and stools on the street, and then say, "Guest, come and have a bowl to drink!" " Shouting, even if the guests are far away, will quickly gather.

"Xiangyinzi" in Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival

After reading the four families of "Bingyin" in Song Dynasty, I will introduce another popular summer food in Song Dynasty-Bingguo.

Second, chilled fruit, leading the summer food fashion in Song Dynasty

In summer, the scenery of the West Lake is very pleasant, with willow trees on the shore and graceful lotus flowers on the lake. Looking around, you can see the citizens enjoying the scenery in the upper reaches of the lake by boat.

Summer is the most prosperous time for lotus flowers. Lotus gently opens its buds and stretches itself between the lotus leaves. They are as demure and simple as a girl who just woke up. This scene is so pleasing to the eye. At this time, a breeze swept across the lake, and the air immediately dispersed, and a fresh and elegant fragrance belonged to lotus.

Willow, lotus, tourists and the pavilion in the middle of the lake set each other off in interest, weaving this beautiful landscape painting of the West Lake together.

When visiting the West Lake in the Song Dynasty, the elegant people liked to drink and sing poems with the fruits soaked in the ice basin on the original boat, with beautiful scenery and delicious food, and they were in a good mood. This is a beautiful day!

Willow, lotus and lake pavilion

In addition to putting a few pieces of ice in the fruit bowl, you can also add cheese to make the familiar fruit ice cream.

There is a poem that describes it like this: "The pith of sugarcane is cold from the silver cup, and the jade bowl in Zhu Shi is red."

This method is to heat the cheese and sucrose until they are soft, then pour them on the fruit and add ice cubes to cool down. The ice-soaked fruit made in this way tastes a bit like our ice cream today.

The eating method of "ice-soaked fruit ice cream" appeared in the Tang Dynasty, and it was very popular with girls as soon as it lit up. At that time, at girlfriends' parties, such delicious things usually appeared on the table.