what did ancient people eat on a hot summer day?

the answer of 99% people must be

streams, wells, what else can there be

the wisdom of ancient working people

is far more developed than you think

Taking advantage of the hot weather, let's talk about

what people of all dynasties and generations drink in summer

pre-Qin-ice cubes

As early as the pre-Qin period, people used to drink ice cubes. At that time, the Zhou royal family didn't have a refrigerator, so they specially built the icehouse called "Lingyin" to store the natural ice collected in winter.

In addition to the "Lingyin" with the visual sense of grave robbery notes, there is also an 81-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 gives ice cubes to civil and military ministers, but such a noble thing as ice cubes will only be given to officials who are qualified to eat meat, and ordinary officials will 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, which is water mixed with honey. As the earliest sweet water that can be traced back, honey water should be regarded as the originator of beverages.

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

however, at that time, the soldiers were almost out of food, where was the honey? The chef said contemptuously that there was no honey water, and Yuan Shu, who was lying on the bed and dying, lamented his fate, so he vomited. Blood. And ... Death. Yes.

what a sad story.

Tang Dynasty-Yanzi

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

At this point, witty students are already thinking, isn't this the modern "herbal tea"?

the similarity is really high.

"Yinzi" was very popular with consumers in Sui and Tang Dynasties, and there were Yinzi shops everywhere, which were estimated to be similar in scale and popularity to the present tea shops.

Some well-known drink shops have a very good business, but they are not cheap-in that era when one penny can buy an egg and two pennies can buy a biscuit, it takes 111 pence to buy a suit of "drink"! ! !

the people of the Tang dynasty were really rich.

song dynasty-fruit juice

by the song dynasty, the variety of drinks had been very rich. Especially fruit juice drinks, were very popular with consumers in Song Dynasty.

The commercially available cold drinks recorded in the notes of Song people can all be read as a cross talk:

Shen Xiang Shui, Litchi Cream Water, Bitter Water, White Water, Jiangcha Water, Myrica rubra sharbat, Fragrant Sugar sharbat, Papaya sharbat, Wuwei sharbat, Xuepao Shrinking Skin Drink, Apricot Crisp Drink, Perilla Drink, Xiangsi Drink, Mei Huajiu, Soap Water, and Xiang Drink.

yuan dynasty-shelby

the most popular drink in yuan dynasty was called "sharbat", and in Mongolian it was called "shelby". It's called Sharbat in Arabic.

"sharbat" 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 sharbat is Limu, which means lemon. In order to ensure the supply of Limu, the imperial court also set up a special "Imperial Orchard" in Guangzhou and planted 811 Limu trees.

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

Guangui, Lilac, Osmanthus fragrans, Amomum cardamom (stone lodge), Amomum villosum and wheat tiller are divided into two parts, and the right part is fine powder. Cooked with half a catty of rattan flowers and ten catties of honey. 61 Jin of fresh water. Boil it in a pot with rattan flowers to 41 Jin. Filter the raw silk with a small mouth. Raw silk bags contain the seven flavors mentioned in the preceding paragraph. Go down to the bottom. Add 41 Jin of fresh water. And has refined honey. Seal the mouth. 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.

Dutch water in Qing dynasty

By the end of Qing dynasty, a new type of drink, Dutch water, appeared in China. The so-called Dutch water is actually the soda that everyone often drinks now.

But "Dutch water" was not produced in the Netherlands, nor was it invented by the Dutch, but because most of the western goods imported at that time were called "Dutch XX". Dutch water was first brought to Shanghai by the Japanese. At that time, most of the specialty stores were run by the Japanese. Later, Dutch water could only be bought in cold drinks shops run by the Japanese.

It is worth mentioning that the royal family began to use refrigerators in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and now there are two cloisonne enameled refrigerators in the Palace Museum, which are also beautiful. aqui te amo。