The answer of 99% is definitely yes.

Streams, wells, what water can there be?

The wisdom of ancient working people

Far more developed than you think.

Let's talk about it while it is hot.

What do generations drink in summer?

Pre-Qin ice cubes

As early as the pre-Qin era, people learned to make cold drinks with natural ice. At that time, the Zhou royal family didn't have a refrigerator, so they specially built an ice room called Lingyin to store the natural ice collected in winter.

In addition to the "Lingyin" with a visual sense of tomb-robbing notes, there is also an 80-person department "Ice Administration", which is responsible for the exploitation and storage of ice cubes. Such a waste of manpower and material resources also shows how rare ice was at that time.

There is a saying in the history books that "the meat is rich, and the ice is rich", which means that the Zhou royal family sometimes sends ice cubes to the ministers of civil and military affairs, but such noble things as ice cubes will only be given to officials who are qualified to eat meat, so ordinary officials can forget it.

Well, meat is also very precious.

Han dynasty-honey water

In the Han Dynasty, drinks were upgraded from ordinary water to honey water, that is, water mixed with honey. As the earliest sweet water that can be traced back, honey water should be regarded as the originator of drinks.

There is a famous historical story about honey water, which is about Yuan Shu, a lean man in the late Han Dynasty, who liked honey water very much. Before he died, he was on the way to escape after the defeat. Because the weather is very hot, Yuan Shu, who is used to enjoying life, ordered his men to say: It's too hot, please send me some honey water quickly!

However, at that time, the army almost ran out of food. Where is the honey? The chef said contemptuously that there was no honey water, and Shu Yuan, who was dying in bed, lamented her fate and vomited. Blood. And ... death. Yes

What a sad story.

Tang dynasty-drinking children

During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, people drank more carefully than before, and a drink called "Swallow" became popular. "Yinzi" is made of fruits and herbs, which can quench thirst and has the effect of clearing away heat and toxic materials.

Having said that, witty students have been thinking, isn't this the modern "herbal tea"?

The similarity is really high.

"Yinzi" was very popular with consumers in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and there were Yinzi shops everywhere. It is estimated that the scale and popularity are similar to those of the current tea shop.

The business of some well-known beverage shops is particularly good, but their prices are not cheap-in that era when 1 penny could buy an egg and 2 pence could buy a biscuit, it took100p to buy a set of "drinks"! ! !

The people in the Tang Dynasty were really rich.

Song dynasty-juice

By the Song Dynasty, there were many kinds of drinks. Juice drinks, in particular, were very popular with consumers in the Song Dynasty.

The commercial cold drinks recorded in the notes of Song people can be interpreted as cross talk:

Shen Xiangshui, litchi cream, bitter water, white water, ginger tea, waxberry sand tea, fragrant sugar sand tea, papaya sand tea, five-flavored sand tea, snow-soaked skin-shrinking drink, apricot crisp drink, perilla drink, scallion drink, Mei Huajiu, soapy water, Linghu pulp, Lu Mei pulp, ginger honey water and mung beans.

It looks delicious.

Yuan Dynasty-Shelby

The most popular drink in Yuan Dynasty is called "Sharbat", which is called "Sherbill" in Mongolian. It is called Sharbat in Arabic.

"Shabat" is actually similar to the fruit juice drink that Song people like to drink. The difference is that this drink was introduced from Arabia during Kublai Khan's campaign, and it is a variant of the local popular "non-alcoholic drink" iced sherbet.

Kublai Khan's favorite shark bait is Limu, which is lemon. In order to ensure the supply of Limu, the imperial court also established a special "Royal Orchard" in Guangzhou, and planted 800 Limu trees.

In order to further worship the ancient people's pursuit of food, here is an excerpt from the practice of "Emperor chabat":

Osmanthus fragrans, clove, osmanthus fragrans, cardamom (stone lodge), Amomum villosum.

Four good songs and four ears of wheat.

On the right is fine powder. It is cooked with half a catty of rattan flowers and ten catties of honey. 60 Jin of fresh water. Cook with rattan flowers until 40 kg. Filter raw silk through a small mouth. Raw silk contains seven flavors mentioned in the previous paragraph. Down to the bottom. Add 40 Jin of fresh water. Honey was refined. Shut up. Summer fifth. Seven days in autumn and spring. It ripens on the tenth day of winter. If the waste is warm in spring and autumn, cold in summer and hot in winter.

That's how China on the Tip of the Tongue came from.

Qing dynasty-Dutch water

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, a new type of drink-"Dutch water" appeared in China. The so-called Dutch water is actually the soda that people often drink now.

However, "Dutch water" was not produced in the Netherlands or invented by the Dutch, but because most of the western goods imported at that time were called "Dutch XX". Dutch water was originally brought to Shanghai by the Japanese. At that time, most specialty stores were run by Japanese. Later, Dutch water could only be bought in Japanese-run cold drinks shops.

It is worth mentioning that the royal family began to use refrigerators in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and now there are two cloisonne enamel refrigerators in the Forbidden City, which are also very beautiful.