中国古代蒸馏技术探源

Investigation of the Origin of Distillation Technology in Ancient China

关于蒸馏技术的记载,以往多发现于炼丹术的丹经中。中国蒸馏技术起源甚早,有其独特的发展路径。随着考古发掘的增多,新的关于蒸馏器的实物资料也多了起来。本文将蒸馏器实物与文献记载结合考证,得出中国蒸馏技术发展的两个源头,并且二者独立发展,又互相借鉴,从而促进中国蒸馏技术的发展。

The textual records about distillation in early China were mainly found in the books about alchemy.The distillation technology can be traced back to a very early time and developed in a very unique way.The new archaeological discoveries shed light on the materialised evidence about this technology.This paper argued that two origins of distillation were found and they were independently developed and interacted sometimes after integrating the archaeological finds and ancient docuemnts.