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The Briq, the Cultural Heritage of Lebanon The Briq The Cultural Symbol of Lebanon Tradition, Health and Sustainable Practice The iconic natural symbol of (Note that in this article we will use Lebanon is clearly the cedar, best briqs for the plural of briq, but in reflected in its central position Arabic, the plural is actually ibariq (.(أباريق) on the Lebanese flag. While other countries have cedars, none of their cedars have played such an important Uniquely Lebanese historical role as the Lebanese cedar In researching this article, much effort nor been mentioned in such historical was made to determine if the briq records as Gilgamesh and the Bible. used in Lebanon is also found in other The cedar has contributed to shaping cultures. I found no evidence that it Lebanese culture (that which is is used in surrounding manmade), but is not itself a part of countries or beyond, except culture. In contrast to the cedar, there in Lebanese restaurants are many good reasons to propose and souvenir shops. There the briq as the iconic cultural symbol is a jug that is similarly of Lebanon, to put it on posters and used for drinking in Spain postage stamps, and revive its common and Hispanic cultures of usage. Other Lebanese cultural symbols Latin America called the are the flag, the map of the country, the botijo, but it is shaped six columns of the Temple of Jupiter differently. in Baalbek and the stylized calligraphy Lebanon). But none There is also reference to something) لبنان of the word of those integrate Lebanon’s unique comparable in India called a ghara, cultural heritage with tradition, health matka or suhari but this, too, does not and sustainable practice as the briq physically resemble the Lebanese briq. does. Briq drinking etiquette in The briq is a social artifact in that it (ابريق) or ibriq ,(بريق) The briq classical Arabic (also spelled brik) is meant to be shared. It is common simply means a pitcher, jug or juglet in for it to be passed from one person to Arabic. But in Lebanon it is the name another. In a more formal situation for a uniquely shaped water pitcher with someone may present the briq to one a bulbous body and a straight or tapered person after the other, or it is left out neck, a loop near the wide opening on a table for anyone to drink from. at the top and a tapered spout facing The briq is always filled with water, not upward directly opposite it. The loop other beverages. Briq drinking etiquette can be used as a handle, but is more requires that users not touch the spout often used to put a stabilizing finger in with their mouths, instead holding the when carrying the briq or lifting it to briq above the face and letting the water drink from. The spout is not generally pour down into one’s open mouth. As used for pouring the contents into with the Lebanese briq, botijo etiquette another container like most pitchers, also demands that the lips not touch the but to constrict the water flow to a spout, as the water container is usually manageable amount for drinking. shared among several people. 56 Magazine - HOMELAND & HERITAGE https://www.notechmagazine.com/2012/04/botijos.html Magazine - HOMELAND & HERITAGE 57 The clay briq is made individually on a are only as consistent as the individual The glass briq, in contrast, has fewer They recall learning how to drink from pottery wheel in two sections, with the glassblower can make them. The whole health benefits, since glass is essentially it as children, often spilling the water lower part made separately from the process takes about two minutes for an inert material that adds no nutrients all over themselves, and sometimes upper part and then fused together. each briq to be made, and the output is to the water and does not cool the water competing with relatives and friends to about 200 briqs per day. through evaporation. On the other see who could drink without touching https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZ4FlvGbrBI. hand, it has none of the negative effects the spout to their mouths, raising it Health benefits of drinking from the of plastic water bottles since nothing is highest above their heads and drinking The whole process takes about 12 briq absorbed into the water from the glass. the most water, swallowing as they minutes, not including the time to fire There are a number of health benefits drunk without spilling any of it. In it. While the briq used in most HOMEs that come from drinking water that Rana Khalil, a stretching instructor in fact, as people are challenged to drink, is about a foot high (about 30 cm) there has been stored in any container Lebanon, encourages the students in her some laugh as they spill the water all is a larger variation called an awafi that made of clay, whether a briq, a botijo, classes to drink from a briq, claiming over themselves, while others revive the was traditionally used in the fields and a matka or simply an earthenware that the actual process of drinking from competitive spirit that makes drinking orchards to hold a larger amount of pot. It is unglazed so that it cools the the briq itself provides health benefits from the briq a game as well as a way to water for the fieldworkers. water by evaporation. Chilling the since it stretches the neck upwards, thus promote drinking more water. water from a clay pot rather than a stretching the thyroid. She also notes The glass briq refrigerator or hot/cold dispenser is that chugging the water (swallowing as When asked why they don’t still use the The glass briq is a more recent variation. easier on the throat. In addition, the one drinks) exercises the throat while it briq at HOME, many responded that Today the family-run business of Ali clay itself can give the water important contributes to having the person drink the practice stopped when people no Khalife in Sarafand is one of the last properties. Since the clay used to make more water. longer trusted getting water from the artisanal glass blowing enterprises in pottery is alkaline in nature it helps to tap. Somehow, they have the mistaken Lebanon. The glassblowers of Sarafand maintain the pH balance in our bodies, Environmental benefits of drinking idea that the briq must be filled from turn recycled glass into vases, earrings, reducing acidity. It is also believed to from the briq a faucet, when it can just as easily drinking glasses and other examples of provide nutrients and vitamins that There are a number of important be filled from a water dispenser that the glassblower’s art, as well as the briq. can maintain the body glucose and environmental benefits to the briq. uses large refillable plastic bottles. Glassblowing was actually invented in prevent heat stroke. And both alkalinity The clay briq is a cost-effective and Even better than that, one company, the first century B.C. somewhere along and the minerals in the clay can help eco-friendly solution to cooling water, Talaya, delivers water in large glass the Syro-Palestinian coast, likely in what improve digestion. It also helps in which is particularly important where bottles using their own special hot/ is now Lebanon. This method produces keeping testosterone levels balanced. In electricity is expensive or unreliable. cold dispenser, avoiding all need for the a briq that is uniquely crafted without contrast, most plastic bottles contain And whether made from clay or glass, water to touch plastic. They have joined the thin vertical lines on opposite sides toxic chemicals like BPA, which is an the briq avoids the need to use the #BringingBackTheBriq campaign, of the briq that identify glass briqs made endocrine disrupter and can lower single-use plastic water bottles or giving a briq as their end-of-year with a mold. testosterone levels. Some people also cups that do not breakdown in the corporate gifts and agreeing to begin claim that clay water containers give the environment. And for those who drink giving a briq to those who buy their The clay briq Most of the glass briqs in Lebanon are water electromagnetic energy. from reusable glasses or cups, it avoids dispenser. There are two types of briq, those made not made by artisanal glassblowers. the need to wash them, saving water, from clay and those made from glass. In Tripoli, Golden Glass is one of the While they couldn’t articulate why, a time and energy. Promoting the briq as Lebanon’s They are made very differently and have last companies to mass produce glass number of people interviewed for this iconic cultural tradition different properties. The clay (pottery/ briqs. The company has a number of article felt that drinking from a clay briq Reviving a cultural tradition: Whether in clay or glass, drinking earthenware/terracotta) briq is the older glassblowers who make the briqs on was “better” than a glass one, and one #BringingBackTheBriq from the briq is a tradition that is both form. A book entitled The Phoenician 30-minute rotations. The glassblower person noted that the water tasted better Drinking from the briq continues to be healthy and sustainable—inspiring art, Pottery of Cyprus by Patricia Bikai has first takes a carefully measured blob of and was “smoother”, no doubt because a common cultural practice in many of whether in crafting the briq from clay an illustration of a briq dated from molten glass on a glass blowing rod, of its mineral content.
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