热衷于电视剧《冰与火之歌》的观众,一定对剧中贵族喝酒如白水的情景印象深刻。当时的酒确实是拿来当水喝的,因为喝开水是东亚人的传统,乃是茶文化的副产品,对茶的饮用使东亚人养成了喝开水的习惯,这无意中消灭了生水中的病菌。再加上茶叶和各种用作凉茶的叶子,晒干后有很强的吸附作用,对去除水中的致病物质也有所帮助。但在中世纪的欧洲,人们没有烧开水的习惯。再加 The audience keen on the drama “song of ice and fire” must be impressed by the scene of aristocrats drinking white water. At that time, the wine was actually used as water to drink, because drinking water is an East Asian tradition, but a byproduct of tea culture. Drinking tea makes East Asians develop the habit of drinking water, which inadvertently eliminates raw water Of the germs. Coupled with tea leaves and a variety of leaves used for herbal tea, dried after a strong adsorption, the removal of water-causing substances also help. But in medieval Europe people did not have the habit of boiling water. Plus