“饭前一碗汤，身体最健康”是国人信奉的养生原则。人们经过长期的生活体验，把汤看作是最有利于身体健康的营养品，所以喝汤成为了中国人食疗保健、健身强体的一项基本措施。人们可以按照不同的季节，根据自己的性别、年龄、体质特征、身体健康状况和特殊生理需求来选择饮用适合自己的饮品，以达到清补滋润、强身补虚、美容养颜、消暑清热的目的。
That “a bowl of soup before meals makes the healthiest body” is the principle of health maintenance believed by countrymen. After long-term life experience, people regard soup as the nutrition which is the most helpful to body health, so drinking soup has become a basic measure to health care of food therapy and fitness and body building for Chinese people. People can select to drink their drinks which are suitable to them according to their genders, ages, physical characteristics, physical health status and special physiological needs so that the purpose of nourishing and moisturizing, restoring pneuma, maintaining beauty and keeping young, relieving summer heat and clearing heat can be realized.
