It can be said that China people's knowledge of health preservation is the most profound in the world. China people, in particular, have a unique view on nourishing the body with food. Tea culture, as an important part of China food culture, is deeply sought after by the broad masses of the people. As one of the three major beverages in the world, tea is very helpful to human health.
However, some people think that drinking tea for a long time will cause symptoms such as osteoporosis and decreased renal function. Compared with drinking tea, drinking more boiled water is more beneficial to your health. So, is it better to drink more boiled water? Or drink more tea?
Since ancient times, there has been a saying that one side of the soil and water can support one side. No matter which time period and region's civilization, it depends on water resources to develop. Water is the source of life and the necessary energy for the development of human civilization.
People can live for a long time without food, but not for three days without water. The content of water in human body exceeds 70%, so water is very important to human body. In daily life, people need to replenish water to keep their bodies running normally.
Many health programs always teach people how to drink water and what kind of water is the healthiest. The most common and recognized way to drink water in China is to drink boiled water. It is believed that only boiled water is clean and can meet the human intake standard. If you drink raw water, it is easy to cause diseases.
So, when did China people get into the habit of drinking boiled water? Some people think that China's habit of drinking boiled water should have a long history. But in fact, China people have been used to drinking hot water for less than a hundred years.
In the early days of the People's Republic of China, people's living standards were not very high. New China, which has just experienced the baptism of war, has poor medical and health conditions. Drinking water in most places is not up to standard, and drinking it will cause many diseases. At that time, there were not so many factories that could purify the current water resources.
The simplest way is to boil the water and eliminate the harmful substances in the water through high temperature. This will not only meet the standards quoted by the human body, but also cause unnecessary diseases.
A large number of studies also show that drinking hot water is very beneficial to health. Because the economy of ancient people was relatively backward, not everyone could afford to see a doctor after illness. Therefore, the ancients raised their body temperature by drinking water after catching a cold, so as to achieve the effects of sweating, detoxification and dispelling cold.
This method has been passed down to this day. When people are uncomfortable, they always like to drink some boiled water. Although boiled water can relieve pain to some extent, it is mostly caused by psychological effects. If you are really sick, you still need to see a doctor in time.
Although the habit of drinking hot water in China is less than one hundred years, the tea culture in China has a history of several thousand years. As the hometown of tea, China has a great demand for tea.
At that time, drinking tea was very popular in Bashu area. Because Bashu area is low-lying and humid all the year round. So it is easy to catch many diseases. In addition, the local food culture is mainly spicy, so a lot of heat poison has accumulated in the body. People found that drinking tea can effectively remove heat poison from the body, so they began to pick tea leaves and cook them.
With the migration of population, this practice spread to the coastal areas with the same humid and sultry climate. Today, there is a profound tea culture in the coastal areas of China. Later, people's living standards continued to improve, and the technology of making tea also developed rapidly. Tea spread to the north.
The food culture of nomadic people in the north is mainly meat. As we all know, this eating habit will accumulate a lot of oil in the body. Tea has the function of deoiling, and theophylline in tea can also effectively neutralize the acidic substances in beef and mutton. Because of these advantages of tea, nomadic people in the north also began to like drinking tea.
With the efficacy of tea being discovered by people, tea has become a necessity in people's lives. Later, with the development of navigation technology, tea spread to western countries. The dietary style of western countries perfectly fits the excellent attributes of tea. Therefore, tea has become the hard currency of China's foreign trade for a long time.
China's tea culture has spread all over the world, combining local customs. Formed a unique local tea culture, the most famous of which are British tea culture and Japanese tea culture. Therefore, tea is not only the representative of healthy drinks, but also the ambassador of cultural communication.
But whether drinking tea or plain water is better has always been a controversial issue. In fact, whether drinking tea or drinking water has its own effects on human health. There are many similarities and differences between drinking tea and drinking boiled water.
A similarity between drinking tea and drinking boiled water is that both can supplement the water elements needed by the body. Boiled water directly supplements water to the body, while tea only adds some other substances on this basis.
The second point is that they can purify the intestines. Especially when you get up in the morning, if you can add some water, it can help the intestines to effectively discharge toxic substances accumulated in the body all night.
The third point is that it can effectively clean the residual substances in the mouth. Drinking some drinks after eating food can make the residues in the mouth rush into the digestive system, thus making the mouth clean. Especially drinking some tea can make your breath fresher.
As for the difference between the two, it is even more obvious. Tea is brewed with boiling hot water, so it has some interesting characteristics. Some rituals when making tea make the styles of tea more diverse. Tea contains many nutrients, which can increase the benefits of drinking water.
In fact, generally speaking, drinking boiled water or tea is very helpful to the body. After all, water is the source of life, as long as it can supplement the water in the human body, no matter what method is adopted, it is feasible.
But people should pay attention to everything in moderation. Even if you drink boiled water, you should master the intake to avoid water poisoning caused by drinking too much at a time. Drinking tea is also choosing to drink different teas at different times, different occasions and different seasons to achieve beneficial effects on the body.