Download or read book The Beverages of the Chinese Kung-Fu written by John Dudgeon and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-26 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Beverages of the Chinese Kung-Fu It is recorded of one of the Heroes of the Three Kingdoms (about 221-26 A.D.) that he made his guests drink not less than seven pints of wine, but that a certain officer who could not drink more than three pints of wine, as a favour was allowed to have tea secretly given him in the place of wine. Mencius (368-321 B.C.) says - "In summer cold water was used in drinking; in winter, boiling water" - from which it may be inferred that tea was not then used. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.