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I've just learned that drinking of hot water and avoiding consuming anything cold is a fairly recent phenomenon in Chinese culture, has very little to do with actual, historical teaching of TCM, and started with public health ordinances of the Shanghai concessions. How much of this is true?

by /u/euyis in /r/AskHistorians

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