Why did the ancients hot wine before drinking? What's the mystery?

There are three main reasons why the ancients wanted to iron the wine before drinking it. The first reason is that scalding wine can warm the body before drinking, the second reason is that scalding wine can make the taste of wine more mellow, and the third reason is that scalding wine can remove harmful substances from wine. These are the reasons why the ancients wanted to scald wine when drinking. I think everyone must be very familiar with it. Even if you don't drink, you must have seen others drink. We have many kinds of wine now, such as foreign wine, beer, white wine and so on. But I don't need to iron any now, which is obviously different from drinking in ancient times.

But there are still some places where this ancient custom continues. In some places in the south, wine is still boiled before drinking, but it is all boiled rice wine. We seldom drink yellow wine now. The three common wines in our daily life are the ones I mentioned before, but yellow rice wine really tastes better after scalding, which coincides with the reason that the ancients had to scald the wine before drinking. The ancients basically drank yellow rice wine. I always thought they were drinking white wine.

Yellow rice wine is a kind of fermented wine, which will produce some harmful substances in the fermentation process, among which methanol is the most harmful. Methanol can make people dizzy, and if you take too much methanol, it can also lead to death. However, the ancient fermentation technology was not very advanced and could not remove the methanol in rice wine, so they would use the method of scalding wine to evaporate the methanol in rice wine, so that they could safely drink it.

Besides, drinking hot wine can really warm your body, especially in cold winter. What a wonderful thing it is to drink a glass of warm wine. I have to say that the ancients still had a great mystery about drinking hot wine. They used to think it was a habit of theirs, but now it seems not.