There was no air conditioning in ancient times, but the weather was so hot. What methods did the ancients use to cool off the heat? ?

Modern people always say that this dog's life was given by air conditioning in summer, but air conditioning was invented by foreigners after all, and our ancestors' summer methods were all come up with their own wisdom.

How did the ancients cool off the heat? Of course, we should also consider it from four aspects: food, clothing, housing and transportation.

First, in terms of clothing.

1. There is a quote from Yuefu Miscellanies in Guang Ji at the Age of Years, which mentions that there was a kind of ice silk in ancient times, which was woven from ice silkworm silk. This kind of cloth has the miraculous effect of cooling and relieving summer heat. The original text is like this:

Lao Tzu in Tang Dynasty was a rich man in Chang 'an, and his livelihood was exhausted. When he met an old woman, he bought it for 5000 dollars. Some Persians saw it and said, "This is made of ice silk. If you put it in your seat in summer and it is cool indoors, it will be worth tens of millions. " ?

This kind of ice silk should belong to the ancients? Cool clothes? Yes

2. In addition to ice silk, there was also a kind of cloth in ancient times called Qingshui silk. It is said that this kind of thing can cool the room if it is dipped in water. It is also recorded in "Guang Ji at the Age of Years":

Princess Tongchang held a one-day conference, and it was very hot in the future. The princess ordered to take fresh water silk, soak it in water, hang it in Gao Xuan, and think about it when it was full. Clear water silk is eight or nine feet long, like cloth, thin and clear, and there is dragon saliva in the cloud, which can cool off the heat?

It seems that there are some special substances in it that have this special function.

3. In addition, there was such a thing as a fan in the ancients, and even rich people had a car that could be driven by water, whether it was cool or not, as described in the Song Dynasty poet Liu Zikai's Summer Song:

You can't see the Lord's Mansion in Chang 'an, but it's not as hot as summer in June. Fan the car as a long wind, and the ice sill drips cold rain. ?

Second, food.

Fruits with sufficient moisture are necessary in summer, which is something that has existed in ancient and modern times. In ancient times, there were many kinds of fruits, such as honeydew melon, loquat with pepper core, Zi Ling, green peach, Lin Lin, Huang Jintao, honey-soaked long round plum, papaya, bucket water, litchi paste, kumquat water polo and so on, all of which were taken orally by the ancients.

Besides, there were many in ancient times? Cold drinks? They have a special freezer, which stores the ice cubes in winter, then takes them out and puts them in their usual ice guides, and then they can make cold drinks. Their cold drinks are also dazzling, such as sweet bean soup, coconut wine, bucket water, deer pear pulp, halogen plum water, ginger honey water, papaya juice, tea, heavy fragrance, litchi paste water, bitter water, kumquat balls and so on.

Third, accommodation.

Generally speaking, the only people who can work hard on accommodation can be princes and nobles.

For the emperor, Weiyang Palace gazebo is in front and chengde mountain resort is behind. An emperor even had a special summer resort called Cuihantang, which was described in Old Wulin:

Long pines and bamboos cover the sun, Shan Qi Mountain is secluded, and the waterfall is empty. Ten acres can be bet on the big pool. There are ten thousand handles of red and white lotus in the pool, and the gardener covers the bottom of the pool with tiles, which is new, easy and beautiful. Hundreds of pots of southern flowers, such as jasmine, jasmine, cymbidium, musk rattan, Zhu Jin, osmanthus, red banana, Gaopo and Tuopu, were placed in the courtyard, and the temple was bulging with a wind wheel. On both sides of the palace, there are dozens of golden pots, with mountains of snow. White tigers in Zhu Xiang, such as Garam and Zhenla Longxian. , all hanging behind the yarn cabinet. At first, I didn't know there was dust and heat in the world. ?

You can see how cool this place is.

Fourth, travel.

Tourism is, of course, Jiangnan people looking for water, northerners looking for wood, there is nothing to say.

Of course, I still want to make a conclusion at the end. Generally, the flashy summer resort in ancient times can only be bought by rich people. Poor families can only take cattail leaf fans and look for trees to enjoy the cool. They can only say that if you are rich, the people will suffer, and if you die, the people will suffer.