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Q: why do people say "You are strong" when you drink cold water
I like drinking cold water and every time when i having one..i hear it...you too? any reasoning behind this?
11 years 1 week ago in Health & Safety - China
They think that since you drink it and dont keel over dead , foaming at the mouth with and interrupted digestion and ruptured stomach that you must indeed be strong.
I get that for drinking anything cold: water, soda, beer, etc.
The funny thing is, when they tell me that as they are eating ice cream....
Hulk:
While eating ice cream? Lol. You wouldn't understand. This is China, and we have five thousand years of history, in addition to unique bodies.
Scandinavian:
they are unique in the sense that the "logic gene" has gone missing
:
It's subtle Chinese for "I think you're an idiot, but I don't want to say."
Hugh.G.Rection:
No reason beyond that at all that I've come across. When I hear that phrase it is often followed by words to the effect "don't you know it's bad for you?". Which just reinforces my belief that many Chinese view people who drink cold water as stupid.
Now, historically there may be a reason for that, after all if you've boiled the water the bacterial pollutants are removed. But I still cannot get round their sticking to it with filtered and bottled water.
GuilinRaf:
Back home in Puerto Rico, there are people who believe that drinking cold beverages during or soon after eating will "cortar la digestion" (literally cut or interrupt digestion).
ambivalentmace:
they believe from chinese traditional medicine that if you drink cold, your stomach over works to warm up the cold drink and makes other parts of the body weaker to fight infections and thus you will have stomach aches and mess up the balance of your body, everything should be in harmony in regard to the organs in your body.
this is an explanation from friends but i tell them drinking cold dr. pepper for 40 years must have killed me already and they are talking to my zombie twin. what i would like to know is why i can wear a t shirt and shorts in 15 c weather and they walk around wrapped up like a zombie.
...because they don't know any better. They listen to their parents and would never question them.
Mind boggling.
That belief is in the Chinese psyche/culture and thus they drink warm beer.
Drinking cold water is bad for you, so they say: "bad for health'.
And so is A/C: cold wind blowing on you, 'bad for health'.
Cold water is actually good for health and easy to digest. I always ask for cold water.
