The habit of drinking hot water In fact, the concept of drinking hot water existed as early as the Warring States Period. Mencius once said: Drink soup in winter, and "soup" means hot water.
But the habit of drinking hot water has not been formed, which means that not all of us like drinking hot water since ancient times. On the contrary, people's drinking habits are similar to those of foreigners, and they all drink cold water.
In the Tang Dynasty, Japanese monks came to China and saw that the meals people used to entertain VIPs were empty cakes and cold dishes. Even in the late Qing dynasty, this situation still existed, and the food provided by some temples on the mountain to pilgrims was cold.
Obviously, more than 5,000 years ago, when Shennong tasted a hundred herbs, people had discovered tea and used it as a medicine to treat diseases, which showed that people at that time already knew how to cook it with hot water for practical use, although a relatively complete tea culture had not yet formed.
So, why do people who already know how to use boiled water continue to drink cold water? In the final analysis, it is because of the lack of fuel.
At that time, carbon was affordable to the nobility, except for cooking and boiling water.
And those ordinary people naturally don't have this treatment. When they cook, they will go to the mountains to cut wood and cook. In this case, the firewood they have worked so hard to cut must not be used casually. It should be used to make a fire and cook. If there is a daughter-in-law who specializes in boiling water to drink, this behavior will be ruined in the eyes of her mother-in-law, and the war between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law is inevitable.
Because boiling water costs more fuel than cooking, adults and healthy children generally don't drink boiled water. Only the elderly and sick children will use boiled water to relieve their illness.
Even in the Qing dynasty, the habit of drinking hot water to prevent diarrhea was still prevalent among nobles, and ordinary people could also drink cold water.
During the Song and Yuan Dynasties, teahouses and teahouses began to rise in the streets, and the wind of drinking tea gradually entered the homes of ordinary people. However, at this time, ordinary people still can't afford the cost of boiling water and tea. Therefore, when they want to drink tea, they usually spend some money to the teahouse or wait for tea merchants to order some tea.
Later, with the development of time, people really began to realize the benefits of drinking hot water in the Republic of China. At the same time, the government realized that public health is very important, so it began to promote drinking hot water to the people.
Although the government strongly encourages people to drink hot water, fuel shortage has always been an extremely serious problem. At that time, rural and remote areas were still dominated by cold water.
However, some historians found that the habit of drinking hot water was after the founding of New China. Because the water quality of tap water was really poor at that time, for people's health, boiling water rooms were set up in units and communities at that time, and special staff sent hot water to every household.
In addition, after the staff also publicized that drinking hot water is good for people's health, this habit was also maintained and people began to get used to drinking hot water. Even ordinary people know that drinking more hot water is good for your health.
There was a habit of drinking hot water in ancient times, but it only existed in the aristocratic class. Now, this "aristocratic privilege" has really flown into the homes of ordinary people.