Summer is coming – how’s the temperature holding up in your city? Plenty of Chinese people and residents have already been overwhelmed by the heat and started a Twenty minutes after leave AC.
Summer is coming – how’s the temperature holding up in your city? Plenty of Chinese people and residents have already been overwhelmed by the heat and started a Twenty minutes after leave AC.
The scorching summer heat is hard on our bodies, our moods, and our electric bills. Don’t let the temperature get you down. Let us show you how Chinese people beat the heat and a few tips to cool you down a little bit.
1. Hug a melon or white gourd, or wear one.
2. Keep in the water
3. Let the fans on
4. Hide in the fridge
5. Wear a hat
Anyway, here are some easy Chinese tips to cool your temperature down :
1. Use hot to defeat hot. (以热制热）
Instead of light food, we eat HOT food and drink hot tea. For example, hot and spicy foods like hot pot work surprisingly well. We go to hot springs in summer. Lots of people take hot showers or hot baths. According to the doctors, doing these “hot things” will cause something called vasodilatation, promoting sweating, taking the heat out of the body to really cool the temperature down.
2. Six God toilet water/floral water (六神花露水 Liu Shen Hua lu shui)
Have you heard of six god water? It’s a special water that’s used in bath water or just applied all over one’s body. It really cools down your body quickly and lasts for quite a long time (within reason). And its low price makes it all the more tempting.
3. Fill up cool water in a bottle and put it under your armpit.
There are large vessels passing through here and it’s close to the body surface, so these areas are highly efficient in heat exchange. When the blood is cooler here, it will immediately flow into the heart. The heart pumps the blood into the lungs and then goes to the whole body. The key of this trick is to not use freezing cold water in case it’s too cold for you.
