You know, drinking hot water, wearing autumn pants, and confinement are the three wonders of the mainland.
Especially after the mantra of those straight men ---- "drink more hot water" was dissed, "whether hot water should be drunk" has also become a topic, and it has once again rushed to the hot search list.
Why do Chinese have the habit of drinking hot water?
In fact, the ancients had long had the habit of drinking hot water, and Mencius once said during the Warring States period: drink soup in winter; that is, drink hot water.
In the Song Dynasty, it is recorded that ---- "Even if the people are on the road, they will drink fried water." Even ordinary people are aware that "it is good to drink boiled water.".
But the problem is that even if we all know that drinking boiled water is good, but at that time, fuel such as charcoal salaries was not cheap, and for most people, it was really a luxury to drink some hot water.
Until after the founding of New China, when the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea was launched, the US military launched a germ warfare against the Chinese and DPRK armies, putting bacteriological weapons containing more than 10 kinds of deadly germs and viruses in northern Korea and China.
In the face of this dirty germ war, the country has also carried out a large-scale home-country sanitation campaign, cleaning, removing the four pests, sweeping toilets, drinking boiled water, etc., and the habit of drinking more hot water has also been deeply buried in the memory of Chinese people.
Compared to Westerners, why do Chinese have a fondness for hot water?
Some people go abroad to find that during the meal, the waiter often brings a cup of ice water, and even if there is hot water, they will ask whether they need to make tea or coffee.
Why are the Chinese people so obsessed with hot water? These reasons may exist:
First: Eating habits are different
Chinese has a variety of diets and a long history of food culture. Unlike the large number of meat, milk, and eggs in foreigners' recipes, Chinese recipes pay attention to meat and vegetarian combinations.
A large number of meat, milk, eggs will produce a lot of calories in the digestive process, so foreigners do not like to drink hot water.
Second: Drinking habits are different
Chinese start drinking hot water when drinking tea, coupled with the fact that when Chinese medicine diagnoses that patients are cold and weak, patients who are afraid of cold cannot drink cold water, so Chinese think that drinking hot water is healthier, and have always maintained the habit of drinking hot water.
Foreigners do not have this habit, in fact, except in the cold environment, and people can not get calories from food, people love to drink cold water. Chinese love to drink hot water, habits, but also in the health of the consideration.
Third: the physique is different
The physique of people living in different regions will be more or less different.
Foreigners living in cold areas maintain their body temperature by eating high-calorie foods, while people living in tropical areas do not have to drink hot water. Different regions of life, people's physiques are different, and their attitudes towards hot water are also different.
Fourth: Different concepts
Most of China uses tap water, Chinese believe that there are many bacterial viruses in tap water, and heating can kill the bacterial viruses in the water, so it is safer to drink hot water. In contrast, foreigners do not have this concern.
After all, who doesn't have a long-standing Chinese-style thermos in their home, and who doesn't have a thermos cup that can't be left all year round? These generations of Chinese testimony to such a deep love for hot water.
Drinking hot water is actually nothing special
One study showed that hot drinks around 70°C were able to relieve symptoms such as cough and runny nose in a short period of time.
But hot water can not treat colds, but most of them make you more comfortable, such as eating raw and cold food, diarrhea, etc., drinking some hot water can be effective in discomfort symptoms.
But as long as the water source is clean, whether it is hot or cold, in fact, it is not much different, and everyone can combine their own preferences.
Drink hot water, and don't rush to drink
Many people will feel that the water is steaming hot, drinking can nourish the stomach and warm up?
But in fact, this habit is not good.
It should be known that as early as many years ago, WHO listed hot drinks above 65 ° C as Class 2A carcinogens, and there is sufficient evidence to prove that hot drinks with high temperatures will have a carcinogenic effect on animals, and the evidence of carcinogenicity to humans is not obvious, but it still cannot rule out the possibility of carcinogenesis.
Therefore, whether it is hot water, or something else, there is one thing to remember----
If you can't eat hot tofu in a hurry, don't be in a hurry to drink such hot water.