Which country did ice cream originate from?

Ice cream was first invented in China. According to legend, hundreds of years ago, people in China knew to cut the frozen river water in winter into pieces, store it in the cellar, take it out in summer, and eat it after mixing it with fruit paste. The production of ice cream began in the Yuan Dynasty. In order to keep the secret of the production process, Kublai Khan of Yuan Shizu issued a decree prohibiting making ice cream outside the king's room.

Kyle Poirot said in his book "Oriental Experience": "In Huang Jinguo in the East, residents like to eat milk ice." The so-called milk ice is ice cream made on the basis of the freezing point of Yuan people. Yuan people mixed the jam and milk they usually ate, so the frozen ice, like sand and soil, was much softer than ice and melted at the entrance.

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Cold drinks were called "ice food" in ancient times. The tradition of cold food has a long history of more than 3000 years. As early as July in the Book of Songs, there was such a poem: "The second day, the ice rushed, the third day, the spirit was hidden." This is a farm poem sung by slaves at that time. The third day of the second day of junior high school refers to the old December and the first month. The translation is: December, chisel the ice loudly.

By the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, ice was used more widely. Governors like to drink iced rice wine at banquets. There is a description of "drinking cold with ice" in "Evocation of Songs of Chu", which appreciates the mellow and cool taste of iced glutinous rice wine, showing that the production level of cold drinks was quite high at that time.

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