It turns out that the origin of ice cream is China

Adzuki bean ice cream, mung bean ice, three-color ice cream...Summer is here, and cold drinks have become a must-have for foodies.

In fact, cold drinks are not the patent of modern people.

The imperial city stops at noon on June,

City people are like cooking and sweating like rain.

The ice is sold out,

Pedestrians are not mindful.

This poem by Yang Wanli in the Song Dynasty vividly described the joy of the ancients when they looked forward to cold drinks and heard the sound of ice selling in the hot summer.

You may think that all this is just a bluff, thinking that the ancients used ice most for iced drinks, frozen foods, etc., can only bring coolness without taste enjoyment.

However, the fact is that in ancient times, people not only liked to eat cold drinks, but there were also many more types of cold drinks.

In the Tang Dynasty, a large number of new iced drinks appeared in China, such as Sushan. This is a cold drink similar to milk smoothie, which appears in the tomb murals unearthed in the Tang Dynasty.

The Yuan Dynasty's "Drinking and Dining Zheng Yao" records the practice of Sushan: first boil the milk repeatedly, take the upper solid matter and process it into a crisp, a bit similar to butter, and the center of the crisp is not solidified.

As for Sushan, the "su" is first heated to a nearly melted and very soft state, and then dripped onto dishes such as dishes, making the shape of a mountain while drenching, and then placed in an ice cellar to freeze.

It was an extremely decent thing to appear at the banquet at that time. It is equivalent to going out for a meal. After the meal, it is the perfect ending if there is an exquisite dessert made by a French chef.

In addition to Sushan, there were also "popsicles" on sale in the Tang Dynasty. Put ice in the big wooden bucket, sprinkle with salt to lower the melting point of the ice, then arrange the small iron boxes containing cane sugar water in the bucket, insert the small wooden sticks, and after a while, it freezes into popsicles.

Du Fu, a foodie in Xueba, once wrote a poem to praise the delicious cold drinks. Du Fu's "Sophora Leaf Cold Pottery" was a kind of cold noodle blended with Sophora leaf water, which was very popular at that time.

The poet praised the cold pottery of Sophora leaves like this: "Gently raise Sophora leaves, pick and pay for Chinese cooking; new noodles come to welcome the market, and the juices are ready; if you are too mature, you will be sorrowful with extra meals; Fragrant drink and bud reed; warp teeth are colder than snow, persuade people to vote against beads." In addition, Du Fu also wrote the famous sentence for cold drinks, "The son adjusts ice water, the beauty snow lotus root silk".

However, due to the high price of ice, in Tang Dynasty iced drinks were mostly enjoyed by wealthy people, and cold drinks became ordinary food, which was a thing after Song Dynasty.

According to ancient books such as "Tokyo Menghualu", there were many types of cold drinks at that time. Such as sugar mung bean, pear juice, papaya juice, brine plum water, black tea water, coconut wine, ginger honey water, bitter water (a tea with ice), mushroom drink, perilla drink, lychee cream water, white mash Cold water, plum wine, kumquat snow bubble, shrinking spleen view, ice and snow, Shen perfume, etc.