Cold drinks were called "ice food" in ancient times. The tradition of cold food has a long history of more than 3000 years. As early as July in the Book of Songs, there was such a poem: "The second day, the ice rushed, the third day, the spirit was hidden." This is a farm poem sung by slaves at that time. The third day of the second day of junior high school refers to the old December and the first month. The translation is: December, chisel the ice loudly. In the first month, hide it in the freezer. Lingyin is the icehouse. What's the use of hiding in the ice room? At that time, the rich knew that they would cut ice in winter and store it in the cellar for next summer. The Zhou Dynasty even set up a "Lingren" who was in charge of "ice power".
By the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, ice was used more widely. Governors like to drink iced rice wine at banquets. There is a description of "drinking cold with ice" in "Evocation of Songs of Chu", which appreciates the mellow and cool taste of iced glutinous rice wine, showing that the production level of cold drinks was quite high at that time.
The custom of storing ice was more prosperous during the Three Kingdoms period. Qu Yuan's "Songs of the South Evocation" has a sentence "Han thinking is both ancient and elegant", followed by a kind of "Zhejiang Yaojiang". Cane pith is the juice squeezed from sugarcane; Yao pulp generally refers to a pasty cold food made from various fresh fruits by juicing. This nectar juice can be said to be the original creation of modern cheese, sorbet, almond dew and loquat dew.
In the Tang dynasty, ice products began to be sold publicly. According to Tang Yanyan, people sell ice in the market in midsummer, and passers-by are so hot that everyone wants to eat it quickly. Unexpectedly, the ice seller thought that strange goods could live in and deliberately raised the price of ice. As a result, passers-by endured the heat and walked away. In a short time, the ice melted, and the people finally got smarter and lost money. In the late Tang Dynasty, in order to attract business, merchants added sugar to ice cubes to attract customers.
Cold drinks developed rapidly in the Song Dynasty, with many kinds, including cold drinks shops. Yang Wanli said in his poem: "The Imperial City stopped at noon in June, and the people in the city were like cooking and sweating. Selling ice comes from water, and pedestrians don't eat their hearts. "
The ice shop in Bianjing (now Kaifeng) in the Northern Song Dynasty sold "rock sugar, ice and snow, and iced Zi Yuan", and the iced sour plum soup at that time had a unique flavor. In the Southern Song Dynasty, Lin 'an (present-day Hangzhou) sold "Snow Bubbles Fighting Water" and "Snow Bubbles Mei Huajiu" on the streets. Liu Song's Reading Gambling Collection and Song Shujia's Half Tea Map also painted scenes of selling cold drinks.
After the Yuan Dynasty, there was a new breakthrough in cold drinks. Honey and pearl powder were added to ice. In Yuan Haowen's "Chasing Jane Yizhi", there is a small ice in Taoshui in winter, as clean as pearls, and pearl powder mixed with honey water in midsummer.
Nomads who like to eat dairy products have added fruit pulp and milk, much like modern ice cream.
It was also at this time that ice cream spread abroad. Legend has it that Kyle Poirot brought the practice of ice cream back to Europe. Later, after continuous improvement, a French court chef made the ice cream into such a semi-solid state, which is the embryonic form of the ice cream we often eat in modern times.
The ice cream cone that we often eat now appeared after the US 1904 World Expo.