Do you like to drink hot water? Compared with people in most other countries, Chinese people e like to drink warm water. Do you know why?
In the old days, people drank water from the river. The bacteria(细菌)in it could make them s . Ancient people around the world used different w to kill the bacteria in the water. For the Chinese, they thought drinking boiled water was the easiest way to protect t from the harmful bacteria.
What's more, in traditional Chinese m , "yin" and "yang" mean cold and hot energy. It was b that the power of your body came from "yang". And drinking hot water could nourish(滋养)the yang "energy. That's. w traditional Chinese doctors always suggest people should not drink cold water.
Besides this, before people in northern China had central heating(中央供暖), it was hard for them to p the cold in winter. Drinking hot water helped them keep w. Another reason is that s the early 20th century, the Chinese government has encouraged people to drink more warm water. It has also helped the Chinese to form this special habit.
