Good life partner - Cool Friends
Our ancestors were very smart, not only invented the "four great inventions", also invented the fan. Dinette particular inventor is currently impossible to verify, but I guess when this approach was mastered the primitive society, in fact, be able to take a big leaf fan when making friends.
Later, fans and firm, mostly with bamboo, the ancients called "wind shake", also give it a nice name, "cool friends." Economic conditions are good, people will buy with a dinette Silk made shake up more provincial effort, but also have more "quality." Literati like the fan poetry and painting, both summer heat, have added appeal.
Green, air-conditioned room - cool house
Tang Dynasty, appeared cool house. General Bangshui cool house built water cycle way to promote fan wheel crank (like private water tankers), the water slowly into the cold air in the house, or the use of machinery to the roof water, and then down along the eaves , made of "artificial curtain" to make breath enter the room.
By the Ming Dynasty, more perfect house cool clever, there is the text for the card:. "Huodou villa, one being open seven wells, begin engraving, the plate cover, the summer to sit on it, seven wells born cool, I do not know heat" Compared airless modern "air-conditioned rooms", the cooling effect is better, cleaner air, more in line with the concept of green.
But preferred to eat with a refreshing - ice
Jiaqing years, with the British emissary to China Amherst doctor Abel said:. "Chinese people do not have a nation like this to understand the benefits of ice cool in the summer and use it to cool off a lot" because it not only eat but also You can reduce the indoor temperature.
Qing Dynasty famille rose porcelain cup-shaped petals
Diligent and intelligent Chinese people never eat hard on myself, we not only want to eat ice also equipped with a special tool "sippy cup." Think summer, add ice cubes in just cooked mung bean soup, drink a cup sucking mouth, green beans are grate off to his mouth full of cold sweet water. In this case the edge of the ice and put a pot, then it is from the inside out "and cool, heart flying."
This thing can not talk nonsense Xiao Bian, Ming literati Shen Fu's "Summer Ice bowl first round -" can be seen on the display Diocese ice basin, unseated heat, although the sun is shining outside, while the interior cool see also competing residents purchase ice for home furnishings "iceberg" of the situation.
Do not forget this country - porcelain pillow
China how can less porcelain. China since ancient times was known as the "porcelain kingdom" will be used in addition to the ancients made of porcelain bowls, vases do, but also invented the porcelain pillow. Porcelain pillow is hollow pillow surface layer of glaze, Ice cool summer pillow on it, drop off to sleep of course, cool.
? Ge looked at the porcelain pillow inevitably ask you okay, HISTORY experts tell us that this is not the thing: "hard texture will 'force' the man after sleep constantly adjust sleeping position, maintain the body's movement, which is in good health beneficial."
Porcelain pillow was a good thing, it can not only be used to sleep or a treasure chest. Gold Cheats something casually put. According to legend, Zhang Liang Yellowstone granted the "Plain book" that is hidden in their pillow, and buried together, after the tomb found, then the contents spread in the world.
Money?
What time did the money is not enough, do not bother to eat to live with, and had to spend money. This case did not go through the experience elegant yet another poor white can be supposed to? Chinese have a saying called "."
Night is still hot with afternoon heat, open small stand in next month. Bamboo deep dense tree at the insects, not when the cool wind.
See Yang Wanli adults song "cool summer chasing" knew not hing mouth kaihe a small series.
(Part of the contents of this article excerpted from Yangzi Evening News, the Chongqing Evening News, Xinhua and Qiu Zhonglin "natural ice and social life of the Ming and Qing Beijing" and so grateful!)
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