At home, restaurants, and in the office, you’ll often see Chinese people ordering hot water.
In this episode of “Why Chinese,” we’re diving into the history of China’s preference for hot water, from public health campaigns that encouraged it for hygienic reasons to explanations in traditional Chinese medicine.
With thanks to Cinci Leung for the interview.
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The point is to drink a good amount of water during the day. Hot water was used in teas, and TCM, so it is inferred that it contributed to good health. I drink what is readily available.
Ancient Chinese even believed that cold water could lead to death! In Taoism philosophy, hot water is seen as 'Yang'阳, which balances the 'Ying'阴 inside human bodies. That's also why traditional Chinese medicine usually use hot treatments, such as hot acupuncture's, hot compress, hot drug soup, etc., to cure illness.🔥🔥
Because of the Korean War in 1952, Americans dropped biological and chemical weapons and spread the plague, which caused China to launch a patriotic hygiene campaign, that is：drink hot water!
I'm from Hong Kong and I can't stand drinking hot water, with this crappy humid and hot climate, a cup of hot water will turn you into a human sweating machine. My family don't mind though so idk
Natural water is not completely sterile, Chinese people choose to sterilize by heating, while Westerners choose to add alcohol.
Of course, in ancient China, it was very inconvenient to collect fuel (such as wood), so hot water was not common. Ordinary people can only hope that the natural water they usually drink will not be seriously polluted, and that they can use the fuel left after cooking once to heat a pot of hot water.
The popularization of hot water on a large scale is modern China, which established a large number of hot water supply points and concentrated hot water supply at low cost to solve the bacterial plague caused by drinking natural water.
Now drinking hot water is path-dependent to a certain extent, and because the current tap water supply system has a secondary water supply system (that is, the tap water from the city's tap water supply network needs to pass through the residential water supply system, the maintenance of these systems is less than that of the city's), Even thought the water quality of the tap water supply system can be used directly for drinking, it will be degraded by the secondary water supply system, so it is safe to drink it after heating.
I drink Ice as always becasue I'm Canadian
Bro I love hot water.
only adult above will prefer hot drink, youngster n bellow prefer for cold one
I've always hated ice cold drinks and when I do drink it she's right. It doesn't feel like it alleviates my thirst, just hurts my throat lol
Becauze after all that lying their throats are filthy.