The ancients were also troubled by hot weather. How did the ancients escape the summer?

The ancients generally used ice cubes or lived in a cooler place to escape the heat, but these were all summer methods used by families with better conditions. The temperature this summer seems to be hotter and more unbearable than before. Everyone doesn't want to hang out outdoors. Even if they go shopping for dinner, they will definitely find a place with air conditioning. As long as you leave the air-conditioned room, the sweat on your body is like taking a bath. Every summer, I have to feel that air conditioning is really a great invention, which has made a qualitative leap in our quality of life. However, air conditioning was invented in the late Qing Dynasty and was not widely used. So in the absence of air conditioning in ancient times, how did the ancients escape the heat?

In fact, the ancients were still very wise. Although they can't use air conditioning, they can use other methods to escape the heat. When we watch TV series, we should also find that some people will put a basin of ice at home. These ice cubes are prepared in advance in winter and put in the cellar, which can be taken out in summer. The royal family will build a summer resort. When the weather is hot, the emperor will take his concubine and prince to the summer resort to enjoy the cool. Moreover, a fan car very similar to an electric fan appeared in the Western Han Dynasty. In the Tang Dynasty, there was a place called Liangdian for everyone to enjoy the cool.

However, these methods are generally affordable for the rich, and ordinary people certainly do not have this condition. Now we pay attention to a house facing south. In fact, this is also handed down from ancient times. In ancient times, in order to make the house more ventilated and cool, we would build the house facing south.

Moreover, in ancient times, the temperature in summer was not too high for people to bear. Especially in the Ming Dynasty, it was during the Little Ice Age, and it was cool even in summer. Therefore, in the Ming Dynasty, people wore heavy and complicated clothes. The ancients were still very wise. Although science and technology can't reach the present level, they will develop the tools they can use to the extreme.