The History of Alcohol in the Far East - China, Japan, Philippines, Islands of the Pacific
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The History of Alcohol in the Far East - China, Japan, Philippines, Islands of the Pacific - Edward Randolph Emerson
In China, a country which has preserved its civil polity for so many thousand years, the art of distillation was known far beyond the date of any of its authentic records. The period of its introduction into that country, in common with the rise and progress of other chemical arts, is, however, concealed amidst the darkness of ages: But taking dates as we find them, sanctioned by respectable authority, and leaving the assumed antiquity of the nation as a point for the discussion of chronologists, we are certainly led to attribute to the people of this empire the merit of an invention which seems to have eluded the grasp of the human intellect in the rest of Asia, Africa, and Europe, until a more advanced period in the history of the world.
There is no doubt whatever, that from the earliest ages the Chinese were acquainted with many of those useful and ingenious preparations, which are still considered as indispensable in the practice of the arts and manufactures of every civilized country. Their knowledge of gunpowder, before it was discovered in Europe, seems to be a fact undisputed, and appears coeval with that of their most distant historic events. Shut up within the bosom of a country, yielding in abundance all the necessaries and even luxuries of life, and satisfied with the articles which it afforded, they felt no desire to seek or encourage an intercourse with foreign nations.* Their inventions, therefore, appear to be entirely their own; the annals of the empire, in the language of Staunton, bear testimony to the fact, and it is confirmed by the consideration of the natural progress of those inventions, and of the state of the Chinese arts at this time.† That they were versed in all the secrets of alchymy, or rather in that branch of it which had for its object a universal panacea, long before this fancy engaged the speculations of European practitioners, we have abundant proof‡, since some of their empiricks have from an early period boasted of a specific among their drugs, which insures an immortality like that conferred on Godwin’s St. Leon.§ The search after this elixir vitœ originated, it appears, among the disciples of the philosopher Lao-kiun, who flourished six hundred years before Christ. Not content with the tranquillity of mind which that teacher of wisdom endeavoured to inculcate, and considering death as too great a barrier to its attainment, they betook themselves to chemistry, and after the labour of ages in a vain endeavour to prevent the dissolution of our species, and after the destruction of three of their emperors, who fell victims to the immortal draught*, they, like the alchemists of Europe, ended their researches under the pretence of discoveries which were never made, and of remedies which could only be administered under all the extravagancies of magic. Indeed, in any country where medicine has not been established, as a regular study, it can scarcely be expected, that the profession of a chemist could be supported with dignity or respectability. But, whether to this search, or to other circumstances, the early knowledge of the Chinese in distillation is