Chinese people are the only country in the world to drink hot water. It seems that people in other countries like to drink ice water. Why do Chinese people like to drink hot water while foreigners like cold water or even ice water? This is really an amazing question. Foreigners who drink hot water don't understand. It's probably related to their eating habits and personal constitution.
The most basic premise for westerners to drink ice water is the appearance of direct drinking water. They didn't pay attention to it from the beginning. The pollution of water source, the prevalence of epidemic diseases and the prosperity of navigation trade after the industrial revolution brought cholera to Europe. Then they began to control the water source and gradually developed the concept of "direct drinking water".
Up to now, the western water quality standards are the most stringent in the world, or because the lessons of blood are too profound. In the early years of the Republic of China, Chinese people also realized the importance of drinking water safety. However, poverty restricted the construction of modern drinking water purification system like the western one. As a result, Chinese people have developed the habit of boiling water, and we have naturally become the first people in many earth civilizations to learn to cook food with "boiling water".
Most of the differences in drinking water between China and foreign countries lie in the different eating habits. Chinese people prefer 'warm food', which is related to the 'nature' advocated by Taoism. Chinese people's habit of drinking hot water is deeply influenced by Taoism. They advocate eating food with the same heat as their own body temperature, so their bodies are not stimulated by cold and heat.
The Western diet is more meat and hotter. They eat more meat and protein than us every day. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, this way of eating is easy to catch fire. If the fire is strong, the sun will be strong, so it needs Yin water to balance, so foreigners like to drink ice water. And Chinese people pay attention to health, which has something to do with our people's physique and living habits. In Chinese diet, starch is eaten a little more, and the physique is relatively cold, so they prefer to drink hot water. Eating habits may have a subtle effect on physical fitness. When hot food is eaten too much, it likes to drink cold water; when cold food is eaten too much, it likes to drink hot water, which is relatively balanced.
Drinking hot water has unexpected benefits. The warm and hot effect of water can expand human blood vessels, speed up blood flow, promote blood circulation of the whole body, and achieve the effect of warm yang and warm body; drinking hot water can also improve the metabolism of the body, so that the garbage and toxins in the body can be better discharged from the body, obviously there are many benefits of drinking hot water, of course, drinking hot water should also be different from person to person, everyone can choose according to their own situation Drink hot water or not