Pan, the owner of the pond bought 100 blocks of ice and put all the ice into the pond to cool his fish down. Screenshot of Sichuan Observation

Hot weather is sweeping through China, affecting every aspect of people's lives. According to local weather broadcast, outdoor water temperature has reached over 45 C in Yueyang, Central China's Hunan Province on Friday. As a result, a man surnamed Pan's snakehead fish fries were in danger of dying from the heat. 

Thinking of how people's method of eating popsicles when feeling hot, Pan, the owner of the pond bought 100 blocks of ice and put all the ice into the pond. He said that he tried this way to cool his fish. 

Some netizens said the generous owner who gave the fish a cold bath was a nice person, while others thought this was expensive and not very practical. A netizen even lamented that her fish had been cooked in the water previously.