"My dear, my stomach is upset", "Drink more hot boiled water." ”
"Mom, I'm a little cold", "Come, drink some hot boiled water." ”
As if hot boiled water is a panacea, it can be relieved with hot boiled water wherever discomfort is made.
Since childhood, we have been told to drink more hot boiled water, but in the 5,000-year history of the Chinese nation, the history of drinking hot water for all people is only a hundred years!
In ancient times, poor people could not afford to drink hot water on a daily basis.
To drink hot water, you need to burn firewood, you need to have an iron pot or clay pot, and you need time.
The ancients worked at sunrise and rested at sunset, tired for a day, did not have time and would not waste firewood to boil water, they were thirsty and directly scooped cold water in the tank and drank directly.
So, when did we start boiling water for the whole people on a large scale?
The time begins in 1932. In 1932, a disease called cholera spread to more than 300 cities across the country. At the same time, bacteriological theory was also introduced to China from abroad. Chinese it dawned on me that cholera is a bacterial disease that can enter the human body from drinking water and cause disease.
But at that time, Chinese society did not have the ability to sterilize and disinfect drinking water in the West, but if you want to drink water, you must disinfect the virus, what to do?
Working people are very wise, they can't drink directly and can't disinfect, so they boil and drink. In this way, the bacteria in the water can be basically killed, and the standard of drinking water is reached.
After 1949, the official comprehensively strengthened the publicity and promotion of "drinking hot water" and "drinking boiled water". The Central Patriotic Health Campaign Committee has repeatedly called for "repeatedly educating the masses to drink boiled and disinfected water, not raw water."
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, with the gradual enhancement of industrial development, the emergence of warm pots also made it more convenient for the people to drink hot water, coupled with these strong official propaganda, so that drinking boiled water to prevent diarrhea and prevent infectious diseases, so that the concept of drinking boiled water has also penetrated into the minds of the Chinese people.