Ancient people drink "special drinks" in the summer heat, each dynasty has what?

Sweet rice wine, herbal tea, watermelon juice and so on. With the development of the food industry and the spread of mechanization, many beverages became popular on the market for people to choose from. Even in the hot summer, there are ice machines to protect us. Any drink with ice added to it will be a great relief from the heat. In this day and age, drinks in various packages and flavors have come and gone, but this makes people wonder what kind of drinks people in ancient times drank on hot summer days. In those days, people also have drinks to taste?

? In the first millennium BC, the industrious and discovering Chinese began to use fermentation to make wine, and by the Song Dynasty, rice wine was even more prevalent. During the Song Dynasty, the technology of brewing wine was perfected as the techniques were refined. From the muddy white color of the first rice wine, it was possible to make rice wine with a uniform color and rich taste. Most of the alcohol content of rice wine is not high, and even children can drink it. The flavor is sweet and refreshing, and it is very popular in summer, becoming a special drink in ancient times and continuing to this day.

Eastern Jin Dynasty, pharmacist Ge Hong invented herbal tea, and since then it has slowly become popular. Herbal tea first appeared as medicine to overcome the miasma of the time. But as the disease subsided, people found that the herbal tea was cool and delicious, and could cool down and relieve the heat. Not only that, the herbal tea could also defeat the fire, which was also good for health, so the herbal tea became a summer drink, and spread all over the world.

During the Song Dynasty, people would also pound watermelon juice to quench their thirst. Watermelon was not originally grown in our country, but first appeared in Africa and then gradually spread to China. Watermelon is heat-resistant, juicy, and cool, so the best tasting in the summer, but at that time, watermelon is still very expensive, only the rich and noble families can occasionally have the opportunity to eat, some families will also be mashed into the juice of the watermelon served in a bowl, as a ? Drink? Drink down your belly.