Ancient summer drinks

The ancient summer drink was cardamom boiled water.

This boiled water originated from Li Qingzhao, a poet in the Song Dynasty. As the saying goes, women have nine deficiencies. It's hot and rainy every day in summer, and the humidity is heavy, so the damp and hot gas is easy to damage the spleen and stomach. When the spleen and stomach are weak, it will be manifested as loss of appetite, abdominal distension, loss of appetite and nausea. At this time, Li Qingzhao made herself a boiled water to "drink", clearing away heat and promoting diuresis and opening the spleen and stomach. This "drink" is "cardamom"

Amomum villosum is a perennial herb. After peeling, there is a spherical fruit inside, which we call Amomum villosum. That's what we mean by Amomum villosum, but this fruit is not a big stone, but divided into three rooms, each room has 7 to 10 seeds, which means Amomum villosum is a seed ball.

The ancients had summer holidays.

The ancient people mainly relied on fans to enjoy the cool, and fans were mostly made of bamboo. The ancients called it "shaking the wind" and "cooling friends". People with good economic conditions will buy a silk fan, which is easy to shake. It's really interesting if literati write poems and paint on the fan. If you are a powerful person, you can enjoy the comfort brought by the "artificial fan" in the hot summer.

Flapping is an upper limb movement that needs the coordination of fingers, wrists, shoulder joints and muscles. In midsummer, the elderly often shake their fans to enjoy the cool, which is a good opportunity to exercise their upper limbs, joints and muscles. The elderly should consciously shake their fans with their left hands in summer to effectively prevent and reduce the occurrence of vascular diseases.