In most countries in the world, hotel catering only provides cold water. Why do only people in China drink hot water?

The traditional concept of drinking water must be: drinking hot water to nourish the stomach. Drinking cold water hurts the stomach. The same is true for eating. Eating cold food is not good, but eating it while it is hot is good for your health. The child has a cold, so he can't drink cold water, and eating popsicles is even more deadly.

People in Europe, America, Japan and South Korea only drink ice water, and hot water is only used for making tea and coffee. Because, in ancient times, the sanitary conditions were poor, and the drinking water was taken directly from the river in the well. Eating and drinking Lazarus in the river is actually very unsanitary.

In the journey to the west, Bajie immediately rushed to drink water, filled his stomach, and then went back with water for the master to drink. Many modern anti-Japanese dramas also have many such scenes. Farmers pick a handful of water, pour it into the jar at home, and drink it directly with a ladle when they are thirsty. At that time, the conditions were limited, and only large families or tea-making time could have hot water to drink. As high-temperature disinfection water, boiled water greatly improves the sanitary conditions. Although you can drink hot water later, most people don't have the concepts of "disinfection" and "bacteria". They think that boiled water is similar to cold water.

After liberation, the country realized this problem and thought of a simple and rude method, but the effect was very good. Is to promote patriotic health campaign, one of which is "don't drink raw water, don't drink boiled water". Although the propaganda of "drinking hot water" is rude, it has a very good effect, which greatly improves the health level of people in China, avoids the spread of many digestive diseases and greatly prolongs the life span of people in China.

China people have been drinking cold water for thousands of years before drinking hot water for decades. Drinking hot water is not a tradition for thousands of years, but a healthy concept strongly advocated after the founding of the People's Republic of China. Therefore, nourishing the stomach and not nourishing the stomach is pure nonsense.

As for water sanitation, Europeans are beginning to realize this problem. In medieval Europe, polluted water made infectious diseases rampant. People knew that the water in the river was unsanitary, so there was no other choice. They think wine is cleaner, so they choose to drink it. This choice does make sense. The wine fermented by grain is indeed more sanitary than the water in the river. The nobles brought wine and water almost every day, which made a group of drunkards.

Europeans and Americans have never had a patriotic health campaign like ours, nor have they popularized drinking hot water, so they have maintained the habit of drinking cold water or ice water so far. A cup of warm water is one of the most difficult foods for Europeans and Americans to swallow smoothly.