The weather is sunny in the midsummer of June
Everything is lovely
The scorching sun in summer
often makes people unbearably hot and sweaty
Modern people can still hide in the house
Blow a fan, turn on the air conditioner, and drink cold drinks
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When there is no electricity The past with machinery
How do people face the scorching heat?
The ancients did not rely on the psychological cooling of "calm mind and natural coolness" to cool down.
Maybe they were smarter than you think. There will be regular changes in clothing with different fabrics. Starting from around the 1980s, the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the Dragon Boat Festival has been fixed as a day for the whole society to collectively change into summer clothes.
In ancient times, rich people wore gauze clothes every day in summer. The gauze clothes were light and breathable. Lu You mentioned in " Notes of Laoxue'an ": "Bozhou gauze can be picked up as if it is nothing, and cut into clothes, it is really like smoke."
As for the slightly more popular ones, worn by ordinary people, they are made from fibers extracted from the skins of kudzu, hemp and other plants. "Han Feizi·Five Beetles" says that Yao is "a fur coat in winter and a fur coat in summer". In order to prevent the clothes from getting wet with sweat, they will also wear a "bamboo jacket" under the clothes, which has the functions of breathability and sweat isolation. "
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Cao Pi has a poem that goes: "The sweet melons float in the clear springs, and the plum blossoms sink in the cold water. "It means that when the weather is hot, fruits and melons are soaked in cold water and eaten.
At the same time, ice drinks in ancient times are also one of the delicacies to relieve summer heat. Cold drinks were sold in the Song Dynasty. The poem goes: "The Imperial City stopped at noon on June. People in the city are sweating like rain. The sound of selling ice came across the water, but the pedestrians were not satisfied. "And the types of cold drinks in the Song Dynasty were very rich, including rock sugar, ice snow, cold yuanzi, snow-soaked bean water, snow-soaked plum blossom wine, sour plum soup, etc. After the Yuan Dynasty, the types of cold drinks increased dramatically.
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From ancient times to modern times, the most down-to-earth and most popular secret trick to drive away summer heat is, of course, the fan.
In ancient times, fans were called " "Shaking Wind", also called "Liangyou", is mostly made of bamboo strips. In the aristocratic homes of the Han Dynasty, an "artificial fan" was also popular, "also known as a seven-wheel fan. Most of the seven wheels are rulers in diameter, one after another, one person "It made the whole house shiver."
Ice cubes have always been one of the important sources of cold for the ancients to escape the summer heat. Thousands of years ago, the ancients knew how to use winter ice in the summer. They stored ice cubes in the winter, dug deep wells, and stored the ice. Place it in it and cover it with thick soil. Take it out in summer and use natural cold sources to cool down the room.
"Zhou Li" also mentioned " Bingjian", which is an ancient refrigerator. Bingjian is similar to a hollow one inside Box, put ice in it, and put food in the middle of the ice to keep it fresh.
In addition, cooling pillows and cooling mats are also very common.
Cooling pillows are usually made of jade, crystal, or ceramics, porcelain pillows The pillow surface is a layer of glaze. In summer, you can sleep very cool when you sleep on it. As the saying goes, "Half the window has a moon thousands of miles away, and a pillow has a night breeze."
The "mat" of the ancients is different from today's "cool mat" . The mat is warm in nature and is used in winter, while the mat used for keeping cool in summer is actually called mat. The summer mat is used to dispel the heat and cool down, making it cool and pleasant, so the ancients gave it a quite vivid name: Xia Qinghou.
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The ancients naturally thought of transformation to escape the summer heat. For the living environment, build a summer room with cooling equipment to spend the summer. The caves in the pre-Qin period, the cool rooms and the royal cool halls in the Qin and Han dynasties, and the later ice rooms and cool cellars all belong to the summer room.
The cool house appeared in the Tang Dynasty. This kind of house was usually built near the water. It used a method similar to a waterwheel to push the fan wheel to rotate, sending cool air into the house, or using a machine to transmit the water to the roof, and then along the eaves. Next, with this coming and going, the room quickly became cool.
A common method among the people is to dig a deep well to collect air-conditioning, that is, dig a deep well in the hall or a required room, cover it with a cover, and drill holes in the cover, so that in summer, air-conditioning will come out from below.
After understanding the wisdom of life of the ancients
let’s talk about modern times
Modern ways to escape the summer are richer
and are not limited to time and place
For example, museums can also be a good place to escape the summer
While feeling cool,
can also enrich your experience and increase your knowledge
Spend a fulfilling summer with you
(Source: Mianyang Museum Service Account)
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