The history of China people drinking hot water is also a conclusion drawn by the ancients relying on wisdom. The conditioning between people and a general awareness in people's minds make people talk more when they meet neighbors and sick people: drink more hot water.
In Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals, there is a cloud: "Sweet water is so beautiful, and fresh water is so bad." As early as the Warring States period, ancient Chinese people attached great importance to drinking water hygiene. In Shan Hai Jing: "There is water on it, which is very cold and clear, and the pulp on the table is also painful for those who drink it." Gold on the top and ochre on the bottom. "
Therefore, the ancients in China not only paid attention to the water quality problem very early, but also saw the essence through the phenomenon and the deep-seated "water" problem hidden behind.
In the Han Dynasty, there was a habit of cleaning dredging wells regularly. Plants were used to disinfect wells in the Tang Dynasty, and some minerals were used to precipitate and filter in the Song Dynasty. These ancient brilliant "high-tech" behaviors also have a far-reaching impact on modern drinking water hygiene, which is worth learning and thinking about.
Therefore, even if the ancients didn't understand bacteria, they vaguely knew that drinking hot water could eliminate hidden dangers, a simple materialism. These ancient and brilliant dynasties were built and born by water. As the top priority of a dynasty, China has always been at the forefront of the world in drinking water supply and water quality maintenance. But even so, China is still short of water.
In Yanjing Miscellanies: "The water in the capital is the worst, bitter and solid, and you can't drink it." Therefore, in this case, drinking water hygiene is particularly important, and a safer and more reliable disinfection method is also the first priority of water quality cleaning.
Tea is a native drink in China. Tea-drinking culture and traditional people in China interact and depend on each other. Although the ancients didn't know about bacteria, they often drank cold water, raw water or dirty water, which was not only bitter and unpleasant, but also easy to cause physical discomfort. The wise ancients soon understood that they were prone to illness, and over time they would use their rich past experience to distinguish what kind of water to drink and how to drink it, which would lead to problems. So they started looking for clean water.
Later, the tea drinking atmosphere with fragrant tea rhyme spread from the upper class to the lower class. It is generally believed that tea brewed with hot water will taste better, but the idea of sterilization is beyond the consideration of the ancients.
Later, after development, cooks on the road stopped to drink a cup of hot water, which reflected that even ordinary people gradually became civilized and understood the benefits and importance of drinking hot water and tea.
For example, in Ming and Qing novels, there are always scenes of "boiling water" and "simmering a pot of tea". We can know that whether rich or poor, it is common to drink hot water and tea.
Including paying attention to drinking tea, also contributed to the relatively healthy lifestyle that ancient China could achieve under the social conditions at that time. People like to put tea and water together. In fact, tea itself is only used as a seasoning plant, so we should pay attention to drinking hot water.
In the Yellow Emperor's Internal Classic Su Wen: "The cure of the Middle Ages is the soup to cure the disease." Drinking more hot water was the top priority of health care in ancient times. Drinking a cup of hot water in cold winter can not only keep out the cold, but also keep in good health.
In addition, water is the source of human life, which is combined with the theory of Yin and Yang. Water is yin, fire is yang, and hot water is the product of the combination of yin and yang, so it has become something that can prolong life, prolong life, quickly detoxify, improve physical fitness and enhance self-immunity.
From a medical point of view, drinking hot water is a non-drug treatment. This method supplements hot air to the cold body by accelerating detoxification, and its effective and extremely low-cost method minimizes the cost to the body.
China despised theory and valued experience in ancient times. The ancients did not have some theoretical and systematic views on health and science, but they could draw a conclusion by repeatedly exploring the same thing, summing up the laws and accumulating experience.
Long ago, the ancients didn't pay so much attention to drinking water. The living environment in the early society was very beautiful, and the water source was not polluted. The ancients were not too worried about drinking water. With the development of economy, villages were built by water, the environment was polluted and destroyed, the water quality became worse and worse, and the taste became more and more strange, which prompted the ancients to start boiling water continuously. After continuous exploration, the effect of this evolution process is still worthy of recognition.
The ancients went further and further on this road of drinking hot water, and finally gradually adapted through continuous practice, which affected the surrounding environment and the next generation. Drinking hot water has always been regarded as the basic habit of ancient people in China.
The personal experience of the ancients made them think that the cleanliness of drinking water deeply affected their health, so they began to look for clean water sources and gradually explored some simple basic methods of purifying water, of which boiling hot water was the most important one.
With the development of time and the progress of society, in the society of ordinary people, the fuel used for boiling water and the materials used for filtering and purifying water are becoming more and more sanitary and effective. Luxury methods of boiling water such as Tu Su, Alum, Almond and Cornus officinalis also improved the drinking conditions of the ancients, instead of relying solely on sand and stones.
In addition, the most important and fundamental thing to boil water is firewood. As the saying goes, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea are the first, and firewood with more smoke and less water is generally monopolized by nobles. The poor can only try to take clean well water or river water and use it for drinking after it has settled.
Therefore, the development of ancient economy and people's livelihood largely focused on the topic of "can you drink hot water?"
1, Lv Chunqiu Quan
2. Shan Hai Jing
3. Yanjing Miscellaneous Notes
4. The Yellow Emperor's Internal Classic in Su Wen