The most common drink in ancient times

1. Ice cubes in the pre-Qin period. As early as the pre-Qin period, people learned to make cold drinks with natural ice. At that time, the Zhou royal family didn't have a refrigerator, so they specially built an ice bank called Lingyin to store the natural ice collected in winter.

At that time, there was an 80-person department "Ice Administration", which was responsible for the exploitation and storage of ice cubes.

2. "Limu Sharbat" In the Yuan Dynasty, due to the rule of ethnic minorities and the integration of Chinese and Western cultures, the cold drink industry took on a new look. At that time, Charbart made in Limu was the most popular wine in the court and Kublai Khan's favorite drink.

Limu is lemon, and the so-called Limu chabat is lemon drink. In order to ensure the supply of Limu, the imperial court established a special "Royal Orchard" in Guangzhou and planted 800 Limu trees, which shows the popularity and importance of lemon drinks.

3. Fruit and vegetable salad in Ming Dynasty. People in China have been squeezing juice since the Ming Dynasty. They call fruit and vegetable drinks "sharbat". In the Ming Dynasty works such as Compendium of Materia Medica and Agricultural Administration, "Sharbat" is the name of the beverage, which is equivalent to today's diluted fruit and vegetable beverages-orange juice, coconut milk and so on.

There are many kinds of fruit and vegetable drinks in the Ming Dynasty, including chabat, chabat, chabat, Yangmei and Sabah.