In ancient times the summer is also hot, there is no air conditioning fan and other cool things, so it will make adjustments in clothing, food and drink, living environment, etc. Although we generally look at the time of the ancient court TV series, they wear clothes seem to be very thick, but in fact, they clothes with the material are silk and other high-level materials, so that it will not be very stuffy, but instead is very ventilated.
Secondly, to avoid the summer heat, most of the ancient people will fan, which is why we look at the ancient women's hands basically a rocking fan, the fan is in fact in the Shang Dynasty time has come into existence, the main purpose of the time is to come to shade the sun. In the Tang and Song dynasties, folding fans began to appear, not only affordable and have the effect of fanning.
There were no refrigerators or other appliances to cool the air in ancient times, so ancient people loved to drink ice beverages. Ancient government officials would store a lot of ice and snow in the winter and hide it in the cellar, and then in the summer, the ice would be dug out to make cold beverages with juice and ice cubes. It is recorded that after the Yuan Dynasty, people would even mix fruit juice and dairy products with ice and snow to drink. And that's how the ice cream we eat now slowly evolved.
We look at the history of one part of the period, in the Tang Dynasty, from the empress to the court ladies are basically wearing a half-breasted skirt, so to the summer season, basically the girls will wear thin and transparent and dewy clothes, so that although on the one hand, is for the sake of beauty, on the other hand, is also in order to avoid the summer heat.
Secondly, although the summer is very hot, but people usually go to choose a cool place to avoid the summer heat, there are a lot of famous summer resorts, such as the famous Chengde summer resort, in fact, in the absence of electrical appliances in the era, the ancients are still very wise.
And most of the women in ancient times lived in the boudoir, there is bound to be very little time outside by the sun, in fact, if you don't exercise in the summer, you don't sweat it will not be much heat.